I’ve been having night shifts, and then a few days later day shifts. I’ve been pretty tired all the time and it feels harmful.

I think I should try to find job(s) that are either only day or only night?

I’m not sure how airflight attendants do it cause it kinda feels like i’m jet lagged when i have to try to move my sleep schedule around so much,

  • Nyaa@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    This is absolutely terrible for your body, it naturally wants to hold a consistent sleep cycle and depriving it of that prevents you from getting your rest properly. You may be asleep and your body physically recovers but it doesn’t let you enter or stay in REM sleep as easily so you don’t get the mental and psychological recovery as easily either.

  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
    51·
    3 years ago

    i dont think its harmful in the sense you wont suddenly die but im sure it fucks u up, so if you can avoid jobs with rotating shifts do it

  • PP44@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 years ago

    I don’t have a source to back my claim, but my sister who work in some medical field explained so me that statistically, the life expectancy of night workers is significantly shorter, and that it was even worse if you shifted often between night and day.

    Night job should be paid much much more.

  • weshgo@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    night shifts would be harmful anyhow (edit : it fucks up your sleep cycle as well as your social life)