[ShepherdsDog]

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2007/11/ ... study.html

Well another nail in the coffin for those poor schlub's that have to do shift work. It is also thought that working these shifts puts undue stress on the body(coupled with the high fat, high sugar foods many who work these shifts consume) lead to IGT and eventually Type 2 diabetes. All essential services require their people to work these shifts, which usually already pay a premium rate, but should this rate be increased based on the risk one faces?

[DerbyX]

My shift and I (night shift natch) were just discussing this very thing.

We figure that the cancer from the coffee and cigarettes will fight it out with the night shift cancer and we will break out even.

[Brenda]

$1:

"Night shift people tend to be day shift people who are trying to stay awake at night," said Mark Rea,...

I have been late for nightshifts because I overslept

I always hated the morning shifts... Way to early, 5 am

[Hyack]

I worked 10 years steady graveyard, then 8 years 12 hour night shifts....and loved it. You have to adapt your whole lifestyle to be able to do it tho. Of course I'm now on disability.....but I would go back to the steady graveyard shift in a snap.

[ShepherdsDog]

I worked in RCMP holding cells on weekends and holidays, when I was in northern Manitoba. I could never sleep more than 4 hours during the day, even after working all night. Lack of sleep impairs the body's ability to repair itself and compromises the immune system.

[ShepherdsDog]

everything is worse for women......I guess that's why they die before us and have shorter life expectancies. No wait we die earlier because we can....to get away from all the complaining about how women have it worse than men.

[Hyack]

As I said, you have to adapt your whole lifestyle to it. The vast majority of people working graveyard get off work, and then an hour or so later they go to bed.....getting 3-4 hours sleep, then after dinner go back and try for another couple hours, which gives them maybe 6 hours sleep. What I did was to shift my clock 8 hours, get up at 9:45 PM, start work at 11:00 PM, then at 7:00 AM get off and go to the gym....go fishing, hunting, whatever then at 2:00 pm go to bed till 9:45, and do it again....no problem.

[Brenda]

Hyack Hyack:

As I said, you have to adapt your whole lifestyle to it. The vast majority of people working graveyard get off work, and then an hour or so later they go to bed.....getting 3-4 hours sleep, then after dinner go back and try for another couple hours, which gives them maybe 6 hours sleep. What I did was to shift my clock 8 hours, get up at 9:45 PM, start work at 11:00 PM, then at 7:00 AM get off and go to the gym....go fishing, hunting, whatever then at 2:00 pm go to bed till 9:45, and do it again....no problem.

I did the same... That is why I overslept

I never had a problem with graveyard shifts. I worked 7 up, 7 off, and that was called full time, because of the graveyardshifts

It was the rotation shifts of morning, afternoon and nightshifts I had to do later that sucked. That wears you out.

[xerxes]

Oh for sure. If you have a solidified night schedule, it's no problem to adapt to it. It's when you get a variety of shift times (like I do at my work ) that you go crazy from sleep deprivation.

[Hyack]

Oh yeh.....it's the rotation that kills you......that's why i went to a steady graveyard, trading off my day and afternoon shifts.

[Ripcat]

I have never had any trouble sleeping during the day. Or any other time. I love sleeping.....

But diet gets all out of whack and it's harder to eat balanced meals.

It takes more discipline to live a healthy lifestyle when working something other than a steady day shift.

I don't mind working midnights but I hate the afternoon shift. On after noons you are always working when everyone else isn't. At least on midnights you are free to spend time with family or friends in the evening before going to work.

And having a beer weekdays is out of the question for me when working afternoon or midnight shifts because I don't drink before work and I can't drink after work. I can't drink after work because I usually go to bed about an hour after getting home but if I drink a beer I'd have to take a pee about two hours after getting home. And I hate having to get out of bed to take a pee.....

[can-aid-ian]

Here's a news flash "something that doesn't give you cancer!"

[debbystewart]

I don't buy this study.

[Lemmy]

Studies show day-shift workers end up dying 100% of the time, same as night shift workers.

[jambo101]

I just retired after 32 yrs in a milk processing plant here in Montreal,the last 15 of which were 11pm to 7am,to me the night shift is one of those best kept secrets where you awake when you want,have the afternoon to yourself and dont need to book off a day to go to the doctor or garage,i could never figure out why some one would want to do the day shift if the night shift was available, a few things i remember about day shift was
waking up to an alarm clock,
fighting traffic in the morning rush hour,
Working all day with all the miserable top seniority people
All bosses were present
Fighting rush hour traffic on the way home where after a shit,shave ,shower and supper its 8 o clock and you are left wondering where is your part of the day..