Night shift (need advice)

Goal_Seeker_1988

So I've never done night shift before and well I signed up for a 10pm to 6am shift and it's full time. from what I understand I got the position. Awsome bc then I will have bout a $250 dollar pay increase bc currently with workin 2nd shift I am only part time and when you work 3rd shift you get a 50 cent pay raise plus full time hours.

I was thinking pros: more money, still go to the gym around usual time
Cons: have to sleep during the day, wouldn't be able to sleep next to my fiance @ night, feel completly outta place!!!

Well my question is: How do you manage to live normally?

My fiance works 7-3:30 so he gets up @ 4am and leaves @ 6am so I don't see him till after 4pm on the days I have off from work anyways. I know that in the mornings after I get off work @ 6am I could just go straight to the gym and workout and then go home and sleep till he gets home but I think that would make for a very boring life!!! I really want to eventually get a tummy tuck and i know I wouldn't be able to afford it @ my current wages and goin full time on 2nd shift is just outta the question for me! Theres just too much drama! Idk, any tips or advice I'd greatly appreciate it!!!

mrmarius

hit me later, you know i just came off nites... working now so cant really go in detail"

kantone999

My hubby has worked nights for about 7 or 8 years now. You figure out ways to be together...We'd meet in the AM for my breakfast, his dinner. Then he goes to bed and I go to work. Same in the evening...I wake him up and he has breakfast while I have dinner. Do be sure you can blackout your bedroom. Research shows that you don't get as much deep sleep when light levels are high and this can wear you out VERY quickly. Check overstock.com for blackout curtains. Walmart and Penney's have them too. Good luck!

dragonbait0126

I can totally relate because my husband and I have the same shifts you do except he works nights. We both work Monday - Friday. So, we talk every day on the phone. He calls me when he wakes up to say hi. If you can't talk just whenever as I can, call on your break. Even a short 2 - 3 minute call can help get you through the day. I get home from work at about 4:30 so the afternoons are spent hanging out together and we eat dinner together. He doesn't have to leave for work until 8pm currently so we have a little bit of extra time than we did before the time change (when he had to be at work at 7:30). The weekends we spend together for the most part. We get the housework done, catch up on all the TV shows we nomally watch together, and whatever else. He also calls me every night on his break to say goodnight since I'm asleep by the time he gets home. You'll get used to sleeping alone for a few hours. It will take a little bit to get used to it but you'll get there!

Goal_Seeker_1988

I am really hopin I like it and not get stressed out bout not spending time with my fiance. I will only have 1 day off a week and every other weekend off so that's gonna be odd on my days off as well. I am use to being off two to three days a week.

ArroganceInStep

Try to get into a regular schedule is the best advice I can give you. Even on your days off, try to stay at least close to what your working schedule is like. Night shift can be brutal, but people make it work all the time.

Also make an investment in heavy duty curtains, so that when you sleep, it's actually dark. That helps too.

Football_N_Guns

Try to get into a regular schedule is the best advice I can give you. Even on your days off, try to stay at least close to what your working schedule is like. Night shift can be brutal, but people make it work all the time.

Also make an investment in heavy duty curtains, so that when you sleep, it's actually dark. That helps too.

This.