Nightshift experiences?

[Sully60]

As my lovely wife pointed out I've just finished my first week of 11pm to 7am as my permanent shift.

I'll come back to this on Tuesday morning as that will be the competition of the first full cycle with a weekend and back to working week.

So far it has been interesting, further back in the thread someone commented on jet lag and a closer feeling to that I've never had. I can sleep during the day without problem (I used to sleep on the commuter trains at 7.30 in the morning on the way to work!) and have been getting six hours daily but should be able to get eight with some better organisation and once the novelty of finally having broadband at home wears off
So this week I have been feeling a bit weird more than anything but I'm not too worried at this early stage.

I like the timings of this shift so far, though I must say commuting home in the morning traffic seems strange, luckily I've haven't forgotten my lane splitting, oops I mean filtering skills.

So far I really like the shift at work as well, I have much greater input running the line which as a tradesman is great. The day shift staff I was working with felt the same as me which meant learning the idiosyncrasies and operational requirements of line was hard because they'd just do what was required and not necessarily tell me why or how they were doing something. Also with less people around there are less politics (Not exactly Shortland Street at the can factory but everyone has to moan about someone or something) which I like, I don't buy into all that he said, she said shit.

I get home in time to have breakfast with Number One and Sully One which is nice because I used to have to get up and just go at a time when they were just waking. Starting late means that we still have a descent dinner time meal together as a family which I think is important. This is the time when the jet lag feeling has been kicking in after about 8 o'clock I really want to go back to sleep and last week I did on a couple of occasions, waking up after that puts me in a very confused state, ok more so than usual.

I must admit I probably did underestimate the purely physical effects of living with the timing out 180 degrees. This week I've deliberately not done any of my usual extra curricular activities just to give myself a bit of a chance to get used to things. To be honest I haven't been in any state to be near the garage this week so I'm hoping that once things have settled down I'll have the energy to keep that going, after all most of us work to live, not live to work.
Though I took my die grinder and a cylinder head to work and I must say having the endless air capability on equipment of a full workshop and factory has meant the extra curricular activities will take much less time and get better results (look out Fi5hy!)

So as I said probably a little early for a full assessment, I imagine there are some cumulative effects of being at the opposite end of the timescale, only time will tell but as they say, so far so good.

[Number One]

It was a nice novelty to get into bed this morning and find you there. Hope your bod adjusts soon and you don't feel so weird...PS: you don't 'feel' weird to me

AND thanks for the sleep in too babe

[alanzs]

I worked in a psych hospital on night shift (11 pm- 7 am) for a couple years. Took a couple months to get physically used to the hours. I ended up putting a sign on my fron door saying somethin like Day Sleeper, Do Not Disturb.

Made it harder to keep in touch with friends, at first. Eventually I was used to it and I could certainly stay up all night easily. I must say, I used to get a lot of stuff done on my days off.