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I worked 3rds for ages. Everything the meme says is true. But aside from health issues that could potentially popup.... Folks don't understand that it's 4pm and in the middle of your "night"

I had to remove everyone from my permitted list when my phone was on DnD. My mother, for example, would call at 2pm and ask what I was doing.. She never could understand that I was asleep.

I was always the DD for when people wanted to go out.. because "you're awake normally" which is fine. But maybe I want a beer or two at the bar as well.

It's the small things that weigh on you.. and if you're in a relationship... You'll never see your partner except when they are sliding into the bed and you're getting up.

Glad I did it for so long.. but I'd never do it again.

We know that people have different chronotypes. We even know that most people of working age aren't really morning people. Unfortunately, our business world assumes a standard circadian rhythm and is structured around getting up early because people needed to use every bit of daylight way back when. So that sucks, especially if you're an evening or even night person.

Life pro tip for those nocturnal. Even those nocturnal folks need to mow their lawns. For modestly sized lawns, a scythe can be a great option! It's also perfectly legal to mow your lawn with a scythe at three in the morning, dressed in a long black hooded robe.

My internet is fast

Was this written in 2002?

By the Authority of Night Shift Gremlins HQ thatericalper is hereby stripped of their Night Shift Membership for sharing classified information with Day Walkers. They are also expelled from all Nocturnal Activities under pain of Pain. Should they be seen engaging in nocturnal activity outside of their personal domicile all Night Shift Gremlins in witness are obligated under article 13 subsection Scarlet-7-Mentos-19 to use all necessary force to cease the offending nocturnal activity and return the offender to a NSG approved Class-3 holding cell where they will be held until daybreak when an automated system will release them into the light of day where they rightfully belong. Repeated violations will incur severe non-life threatening yet highly inconvenient punishments.

Thus is our way.

Fuck the Sun. Shun the Day Walkers.

/signed, Thadious Methweazel. Adjunct Arch-Gremlin.

I've tried being nocturnal for some time before I started going to college. I got more productive with my studies, but then my heart rate started acting weird, having spikes in random moments, and I decided to stop. My heart rate returned to normal after that.

"The day is ok and the sun can be fun, but I live to see those rays slip away"

From "I Love the Night" - Blue Oyster Cult

Years ago when my schedule allowed it, I slept from 2am to midday for a month. Probably the one time in my adult life that I had caught up on my sleep debt, it was glorious. Although it seemed once I was “caught up” I couldn’t sleep that long anymore.

Shh... if the normies find out you'll ruin it for all of us.

TIL the verb "to shut up" keeps its same form in the past tense (not a native speaker)

The pros are plentiful. But the cons are compelling: partner and job schedules must align or it sucks.

When I worked nights, I had a gf who kept wanting to do stuff when I needed to be going to bed.

I have a pet theory that in the old times before there was good lighting at night, people who rose early had been more productive and got richer. Their descendants remain part of the ruling class today, and that's why companies usually demand that the work day starts early. Of course nowadays there's no real need for that, they are just mad with power and want to show it off by oppressing the workers.

I can't sleep at night at all, no matter how tired I am. so I changed my sleep schedule, I sleep 14-00 (2pm till midnight) and then I'm awake, go to school etc etc, I get 10 hours, while still being awake at night. its amazing. and it works.

There are fringe benefits to exploiting/integrating the swarm of autonomous self replicating bipedal drones.

It's not that this lifestyle isn't socially acceptable, but it comes with some disadvantages. As pointed out by others, if you have a partner that is living an opposite lifestyle ("normal" day time work - night time sleep) you both wouldn't have that much time together being awake and active. Also, another disadvantage is that everyone else is active during your resting time, which is during the day. Loud neighbors, traffic, socializing, etc. Errands, like appointments, are often possible only during daytime.

Attending a nocturnal lifestyle over an extended period of time is also less healthy from the biological point of view.

If your biological preference is set to be nocturnal however, and you can compensate for the aforementioned disadvantages, go for it. Nobody will be judging you.

If other people using the internet is slowing down your connection, maybe it's time to finally ditch cable (if you're able to). Fiber is ideal, but even 5G fixed wireless is faster than cable, even during peak periods.

edit: in case anyone was curious, I get gigabit speeds from Verizon's 5G home internet, with no data cap, for $60/mo. Meanwhile Cox/Comcast charges that much for 20 freaking megabits, and you have a 1TB cap.

No where is open, because everyone went to sleep

You're making me miss third shift, sort of. I don't know if I would ever go back to it again. There was something so peaceful about being up during the night, though. I miss it sometimes.