'Graveyard Shift' Does it affect your lifestyles?

it really affects your normal lifestyle -- when you're a day-kind-of person. i experience it before when i tried call center. the whole day time i'm asleep and sometimes forget if i did take any meal because including my appetite also changed. really stressful at first but kind of used to it anyway.

my hubby used to work nights when i first met him, it was awful i hated every minute of it. He seemed different then aswell more drained. I think if you don't get to see much daylight it does effect you. He said he would never do nights again...

My hubby works 3rd shift where he works, and although it does allow him to be awake and around in the morning for us, he is almost always sleeping or tired and only half awake. He also misses a lot of meals with us as he is sleeping or working. He is leaving for work when we go to bed, and still working when we get up to eat and get ready for the day. and then on the days that i get up to babysit, we dont even see eachotehr at all except a brief hello in the morning before i leave for 5 mins. It's really bad timing! I dont know if it would be any better if he was working a different shift, but he seems to like the shift he is on, and really he's the one doing the work so its up to him when and what he wants to do i guess!

Hello there Armstrong7886! I could relate to what you're talking because I, for one have tried working in the graveyard shift. It has actually changed my lifestyle. My sleeping habit is kindda weird. I only have a very few hours of sleep in a day because I could hardly sleep at all. My eating habit, yeah just like you, it isn't normal. I often lose my appetite which for me is not really so healthy. And most of all, I do miss a lot of moments with my family and circle of friends. I don't have much time to spend with them some of life's wonderful moments. I wouldn't say that graveyard shift is really bad, but as much as possible try to have a rotation. What I'm trying to say is that, please do find a way to have a change of shift in at least two months for you would surely miss a lot of things. And most of all, it is not really so good for one's health. The rest we get during the night is not the same thing we get when we sleep during daytime. Cheers!

I use to work 3d shift and it does drain the life right out of u.. I had to little ones so they never wanted to sleep when i wanted to sleep. It is a different lifestyle and it is hard to get off of 3rd shift once u work it. I work mornings now and I am still up till like 3 or 4 in the morning.