Just graduated college recently and now I’m bouta jump into my career. I didn’t expect to work night shift but looks like I’m gonna be stuck doing it for some time

Anyone have advice for transitioning into staying up all night?

Good luck man. I worked night shift for most of 2019. The only advice I can give is to start working on adjusting your sleep pattern so you don’t hit that 3am crash. That’s the only thing I can say, it’s really hard staying up overnight no matter how long you’ve been doing it. But making sure you get the proper rest is a major key.

Thanks, mad ass man

Thanks man im for sure gonna try and stay right with eating and exercise but who knows how much sleep I’ll lose initially

did it for three or four years straight

How was it for you?

You not on some swing shift s*** with the graveyard sched right??

you work 9 to 5

so i'll take the night shift

Take it

Wouldn't wish night shift upon my worst enemy.

horrible lmao

so ill say this:

the main thing is to keep and stick to a routine. IDEALLY, let's say if you worked from like 10 pm to 6 am or something, the best thing you can do is go to sleep and wake up at the same time every single day, even on your days off.

most people can't do this unfortunately because of sht and people they gotta do outside of work.

since that isn't feasible for everyone, what that means is that likely two days will be hard af to get through -- the first day off, and the first shift of the week. with these days, you probably will need caffeine to stay awake. I would recommend caffeine tablets. they're way cheaper than almost anything else, and you know how much youre taking. I would take about 200 mg for four hours of being awake.I eventually I was able to make those 200 mg be effective for a whole shift, rather than just half.

that's the other thing- only use caffeine when you really need to. the more you use it, the less effective it becomes. also consider timing. if you time it wrong, then you end up staying up later than you intended, which means you sleep less than you intended, and then you're going back to work way too tired, re-starting the cycle again.

so if you can at least be disciplined about the days you go to work in getting enough sleep, then you won't f*** yrself up too much. if there has ever been a time to be as healthy as you can be, it would be during this period of time you have to work overnight. otherwise, it deteriorates you tbh.

Shiiiiit good looks bro
really not sure how I’ll manage on days off I’ll try to not overuse caffeine but we’ll see how that goes ….

Gonna really try and stay right during this time.

Have you ever tried using s*** like melatonin to help you sleep?

Don’t scare me fam

You'll find it out yourself soon enough, man.

you’ve got a 9 to 5 so I’ll take the night shiftttttt

and I’ll never see you again.. if I can help ittttt

my friend used to work graveyard at the 24hr fedex kinkos and me and the homies would always stop by after midnight and just do blow there cause no one was ever there

like who the f*** needs to make photocopies or ship things during those hours the f***

wow didn’t see this before I posted realest post af

you bout to be catching up on a lot of shows cause most normal ppl don’t need to go to any kind of business after like 10pm. You prolly just gonna be by yourself most of the time

Gonna listen to this on the drive

if you can get your schedule right it’s not horrible short term, but eventually you gone get tired of it. damn near everybody do

Gonna finish Chihayafuru in one night

when I used to work at a bakery I would listen to this on repeat on my drive to work at 4am in the morning

I’ll have to just take it as a new life experience… I won’t be stuck doing it for too long maybe a year max if anything but it is what it is. Gonna try and make the most of it

That s*** was terrible. A few nights I slept all the way into my next shift

s*** too binge-able I couldn’t stop watching tbh

did you start odd taxi yet?