Is there a single gains goblin worse than working nights?

>>76328979 (OP)
Unironically nights give gains. You get to go to the gym when no one is there so you don't have to deal with troglettes hogging the racks or the benches, you can get a good rhythm for exercise, and generally speaking night work can be physically active if you make it that way. Bad take OP

>>76328984
My gym is packed 24/7
No thanks

>>76328979 (OP)
Nice frame on the fella

>>76328979 (OP)
night work increases your chances of heart problems by iirc 12%

>>76329108
whats the mechanism behind that? is that causal or correlational?

>>76328979 (OP)
chatgpt told me growth hormone production spikes between 10 pm and 2 am so yeah

>>76328979 (OP)
Guilt.

>>76329132
im starting to look like this

>>76328979 (OP)
Women.

I work out in the morning anyways. Try dating when your bed time is 8pm. Gains straight out the window. Also having AM sex fucks your whole day up.

>>76328984
bs. if you worked nights you know it just kills you slowly. Both physically and socially.

>go for drinks? No, I can't do tuesday because I get off work at 7am and sleep until night, then wake up and sleep again at 4am, how about wednesday?

>wake up
>it's 8pm on a friday
>you're still tired as fuck
>you want to get some breakfast while your friends want to go for drinks

It just sucks no matter how you look at it.

>try to workout between my 12hr night shifts
>fall asleep between sets, literally
Fuck that shit. NEVER again.

>>76329256
Same, i quit my previous job because of this.
Actually it was worse 2 day shifts, 2 holidays, 2 night shift as so on. That was even worse than just constant night shifts

Really wish I saw this thread before I accepted a night shift job last week. Hoping that I'll be able to get a short workout done in my home gym between waking up and the start of my shifts

>>76328979 (OP)
2-2-3 / swing shifts are worse
I did nights and it sucked, but swing shifts sapped me of my very soul. Zombified me for sure. You couldnt pay me any amount to do that again.

>>76329256
>Can't do shit because my friends want to drink
You need better friends if all they do for fun is drink. Low IQ hobby.
>Still feel like shit waking up at 8pm
If you stick to nights only and don't do the scuff splits you can make it work well. I get a solid 8 hours sleep a day and it really doesn't do much for me. Been working nights for 5 years and actually consistently make strength gains.
>Try to work out between night shifts but fall asleep between sets
Sounds like a you problem. You would literally be doing the same thing in reverse if you worked normal hours. I technically work an 8 - 6, its just in a different 12 hour period. All my friends are introverted types that hang out in the afternoons for stuff like DnD or gaming. Not a sacrifice

>>76329223
Sure you are

Nights are without a doubt bad and bad for you quality of life out the window man isn’t nocturnal
>>76329378
This guy is wrong and a fag and just arguing for argument sake

hows my shifts looking

>>76329277
>2 day shifts, 2 holidays, 2 night shift as so on
What job could possibly call for such an absurd schedule? Were they just forcing everyone to do night shifts because nobody wanted them?

I've done night shift for 6 years now and see no end. I've considered changing fields entirely.

>>76329739
How are you still alive

>>76329724
what in the fuck are ma ti ke to pe la su

I would unironically be homeless before doing nightshift again
Good thing I dont have to chose

>>76329766
Monster energy drinks.

>>76329351
I currently do 2-2-3 shifts with day/night shifts alternating every two weeks. I want to kill myself, but I have to keep it up until the end of the year.
Still work out five days a week btw.

>>76328979 (OP)
Nope. It's pretty much the worst.

There are some comfy elements to it, like there is a beauty to going home and hearing birds sing while the sun rises (but then may as well be one of those tik tokers who gets up at 4AM), or how if it's not like a warehouse job or anything you pretty much have nothing to do and can straight up take naps on the job.

But then the vampire lifestyle of never seeing the sun in its full glory catches up to you physically and mentally, you never sleep as good during the day as you would at night. You gotta block every square inch of light coming through your windows, there are no noise laws during the day so fuck anyone who works nights boomers are going BBBBRRBRBRBRAAAAAAW on their lawnmowers and leaf blowers the dogs of course are going BARK BARK BARK WOOF BARFK YAPYAPYAP the zoomer kids next door are blasting angry teenager music, it's 35 degrees during the day and you don't have AC etc.

I only worked nights for like 4 or 5 months and it ruined my life.

>>76328984
>You get to go to the gym when no one is there
Bro was talking about working a job at night, not going to the gym at night.

Say he works 10-6AM, he's either gotta go around 8PM or 7AM and those are jam-fucked full of people.

>>76328979 (OP)
I've worked second shift 32pm-10pm for 12 years now full time. Love it and hope I never have to work 1st shift again. Love not waking up to an alarm first thing, being able to relax and take it easy for a few hours before work, love being at work with almost nobody else to deal with, love going to the gym later at night around 10:30 or 11 when it isn't busy and is easy to use whatever I want. I guess if you're some big social butterfly normie then working night interferes with your heckin wholesome social life and time gossiping around the break room at work, but I love basically everything about it as just a single guy who doesn't want a stressful life.

>>76330250
>2pm-10pm
Bro that's not working nights, you start work shortly after lunch get the fuck out of here

>>76330250
>>76330264
Yeah you still go to sleep at night, its incomparable to staying up all night

>>76328979 (OP)
I leave for work at 2:30 and don't get home until 3am.
When I make strength training a priority my work day is just wake up, eat, work, come home, lift, eat, sleep. drives me bonkers seeing my unread book pile grow and my hobbies collect dust.

>>76329926
Is your pattern recognition so rubbish that you cant identify them as the days of the week? Smh

>>76330325
>ma ti ke to pe la su
ah yes
manday
tisday
kednesday
tosday
landay
SUNDAY

Sadness :(

>>76330337
Ah yes, 7 unique abbreviations that seem to repeat, and op mentions it being his shift, obviously it must be some archaic form of timekeeping because only america uses days, weeks, months and years and no other languages except american exist in this world

Is this some elaborate ruse to troll me?

>>76330337
Im pretty sure its just abbreviations for days in Swedish or Finnish anon

>>76330432
why are you gas lighting so hard to hide the fact that you’re Filipino kek

>>76330515
Filipinos would never hide such a fact

>>76328979 (OP)
yeah it shortens your life as well, many studies on this, mostly on increased cancer risk. Wifi also disrupts melatonin production, god knows what 5G does. Always wondered why i slept so well at our little cabin in the woods.

>>76328979 (OP)
Night shifts destroy your soul. They were bad enough in the military but then I did some for a couple months at a ski resort. Not even anything just sitting there playing video games on my computer as a guard. And then I had a windowless fucking apartment. I don't know. It's the lack of sun and zero social activity and your lost sense of time just destroys you physically and mentally.

>>76330515
???

Did your mother drop you when you were a baby or something?

>>76331317
especially when your life is pic related and you already don't have much to go on...

i dont understand how people can do night shift work, how they can just completely flip their entire schedule around.

i mean obviously i do understand how it works literally. but just the concept that you go to work from say 11pm-7am. you come out after your shift, and the day is just beginning, but you go the the gym until like 8 am, then go home and cook yourself breakfast food or dinner food? then you do a typical evening routine until 10 am, where you go to sleep, and wake up at 6 pm. now you have 4+ hours until work.

this confuses the hell out of me. its like you have to completely flip it 360 degrees

>>76332488
I don't like being around people if I can help it, so no gym for me. I also don't eat regularly, maybe every other day

>>76332493
>doesnt like being around people
>works night shift
youre going to have a very miserable life anon

>>76332497
>going
i already do

>>76328979 (OP)
Skill issue
>>76329256
>noooooo what about muh heckin drinkerinos?
Skill issue and alcoholism
t. 10 year nightchad with no plans to change

>>76329223
I look like that except I have a beer belly.

Maybe I just don’t get it, but I can’t imagine normal people (meaning people who are social, do hobbies, have friends and a relationship and kids, etc) voluntarily doing a night shift job. Friendless loner autists, sure. But I just can’t see it. Why would a normal person want to be awake when other normal people are sleeping, and be asleep when they’re awake? It seems like it would eliminate so many possibilities of having a happy and social life. I dunno, maybe there’s plenty of opportunities for socializing in your non work and non sleep hours and it actually isn’t that bad. I guess your free time hours, assuming it’s the traditional 8-8-8 block of hours, would be something like 4pm-midnight. I guess that means you wake up when everyone else is getting off work and have off the entire evening to do things with people?

>>76328979 (OP)
that doesn't matter. the biggest gains goblin is having a gf.

I’ve been working as a night shift nurse for about 1.5 years now and it fuckin sucks so much. I have been able to get stronger and lose fat in that period of time by being very disciplined with my schedule but it absolutely sucks for my social life and life in general. I work 3 12 hr shifts and have 4 days off per week but I stay nocturnal on my days off as well to keep my circadian rhythm and be healthy. A lot of my coworkers switch their schedules on their days off and that literally destroys your body. If you stay consistent with your schedule you will be ok and still make gains. What sucks is I wake up around 5 pm on my days off and usually I like to workout first thing but if my friends or family want to hangout I’m only available in the evening so my workout gets delayed to later on at night so that means no drinking which could be viewed as good or bad.

>>76328979 (OP)
I'm 29 with 2 kids and a wife. Decided to make a career switch and started college at 26 and now i finished my 3rd year. Im chasing cyber security and I'm going to an interview today for a SOC analyst which will involve night shifts. I'll have to juggle that, kids amd kindergartens and 2 more years of college. What I'm hoping for is a year max and i get moved to a different department or something. Ive worked nightshifts every 3rd week for 2.5 years and even tho it was comfy i know its bad for health. I'm not looking forward to the following period but i think its worth it in the long run just to get an in into the industry.

>>76328979 (OP)
Shift work in general is poison to mind and body alike.

>>76329256
>12 hour shifts
the issue isn't the night shifts, it's trying to work for 12 hours a day
skill issue

>>76330337

I’ve worked partly night shifts for 20 years and it just gets worse.
It’s nice because it’s comfy as fuck to work when all the bosses are out, and it’s nice to have time off when nobody else has. To go shopping or whatever.

But it fucks you up. The constant change of your sleeping schedule is the worst thing in my opinion.
It’s not only that you don’t sleep good because of the night shift itself, but it also screws up your circadian rhythm.

>>76328979 (OP)
No, I worked nights for 5 years and swapped over this April because the client didn't need them anymore. Working nights is fucking max comfy. It's nice and quiet all the time, night-time gym at 3am is comfy and empty, and having a nice walk home at 5am after hitting legs is just something else.
The issue is retards who do nights for 1 week, then day shifts for another week, then back on nights. You literally deserve all the shit you get if you're retarded enough to do that instead of having a night-shift job that is permanently only nights

>>76329132
what did you do

>>76329256
I worked 10pm to 6 am for about a month and a half. I was always tired and I never saw friends. My day off I would lounge around in a half awake daze until I napped and my day off was over. Less then two months and I quit. My one piece of advice would be black out curtains and even then it was horrible

>>76333034
It's really this bad huh? I usually sleep at 1 after midnight but i feel restful in the morning, maybe im one of those guys who can pull night shifts

>>76328979 (OP)
Rotating shifts is the worse - we call them 3x8 or even worse 5x8.
When the shift changes every week your sleep is fucked - can't see friends and family.
I did it for 3 years and my sleep is still fucked.
I could never train 2 out of 3 weeks and when I could I was too tired.
Not worth doing.

Im sitting here reading this on break
Its 3 10 am in a food production plant
I slam boxes on frozen vegetables for hours, then go home and do muay thai
Id say it definitely is harder, its not impossible, but its a lot, lot harder. And no its not all from fight fag shit. I actually gained doing it the first time a few years ago. Ill make it work though, that and do some compound lifts with lowish - mid volume

>>76332624
I'm 29 with 0 kids and no wife

>>76333008
Lie

>>76328979 (OP)
There ain't shit to do working nights, you just sit there. I just eat all shift. The company gives us free protein bars but they give you diarrhea because they use expired whey. So I steal the client's protein bars which don't use Chinese imported ingredients.

>>76329329
Don't listen to these pussies I've worked nights for 6 years and I'm perfectly fine

>>76329117
I don't care what the mechanism of being hit by a train is, my goal is to not get hit by a train.

>>76328979 (OP)
replies are really surprising me, i thought we were all alike but the majority of u seem to despise night shift.
i love the night shift life, i was already staying up all night as a neet so its no different.
my main motivation to work nights was the pay increase though, im uneducated so i refuse to work anything but weekends, nights etc. so that the pay is actually somewhat OK.

evenings are nice but nights suck. 3-10 or 4-11 is a solid shift, I always enjoyed that.

the worst part is that mornings ALSO suck. the 9-5 is absolutely fucking soul crushing. honestly I have to be in at 8 a lot and it's just as bad. working before 10 is horrible.

trust me, an office job is 100x more torturous than shift work.

>>76329256
>it kills your gains by preventing you from going out drinking
check out this retard

>>76328979 (OP)
Bullshit. Night shifts are the best. Wake up at 1pm, have the entire useful part of the day to myself. Wfh winner here.

History always had a night watchmen. The day proles will never understand the responsibility and the stuff we get away with

>>76328979 (OP)
You just need to have a good schedule.
I work 12 AM to 7 AM, sleep from 7:30 to 12:00 PM. Train around 3 PM, i can still go out if i feel like it.
Sleep again from 8 PM to 11:30 AM before work. Biphasic sleep works really well for me.

>>76333085
Thank you for your service veggie bro. We salute you.

>>76328984
>killing your natural circadian rhythm
>forcing sleep during the day and fucking up everything
it's actually horrific for gains

>>76332561
Idk how it's in other countries, but here night shifts are mostly done by uneducated low skill people who have no other option than night shifts if they don't want to starve. It's usually manual labourers working on assembly lines.

>>76334896
You wouldn't understand because you are a shutin who gets no pussy

>>76328984
I loved my night shift too. 4 10s, done at 3am. Slept right away, woke up, made breakfast, worked out, chilled, left for work

>>76333896
Is the mechanism of getting hit by a train casual or correlational to train tracks? You fuckin retard

>>76329256
Antisemitic post. Get back to the cage.

>>76328979 (OP)
I strongly believe my chronic poor sleep is responsible for being so low-test for the last few years

>>76328979 (OP)

>>76328979 (OP)
The existence of night shifts is insane because it spits in the face of human nature. I have done night shifts, and it's literally impossible to be physically and mentally healthy while doing them.

>>76330508
I consider swedes faggots and finns non-human genocide fodder.

>>76330526
This is true.
t. flip

>>76328979 (OP)
having a gf is the biggest gains goblin in the world. not that /fit/ would know

>>76337242
Yeah it sucks to only lift 4 days a week instead of 6 sometimes. Really i think i just sleep worse with another person and that makes me low energy when she comes over.

Night shift (long term) is for felons and retards

>>76329724
why do you sometimes end at 15? and this random day at 30?

>>76337242
their counter is always, "why? You can work out together" which shows they are even more retarded and lonely.

lemme spend my spare time building you a routine centered on your ass, while teaching you how to lift, what to eat when I'm trying to escape.

>>76328979 (OP)

People that work night shifts die 15 years earlier on average than those that don't.

>driving out papers/magazines
Get 20-40% confiscation of vehicle or license or being forced to audit the work hire
Genuinely pretty bad, even if the Indians/Pakis taking the jobs have a chill vibe
>Evening shift at meat packing
Daijobu, mostly because its not actually night
>Night shift medical
Lmao. Its always pretty bad, and its only managed trough extensive trade-off shifts
>Taxi
You pay your driver EXTRA to take the shift + the early morning shift, and see if you can also get the other licensee owner to do the same so somebody will run 3-4 nightshifts(every 3-5 weeks) with extra pay without the hassle
>Night watchman at X Y building
There is a reason why its a meme, and the center of OP's post
There is also a reason the job became a lot more exotic as networked CCT became a thing, and you could have a crew and a vehicle guard an entire sector of town. Meaning the job only exist if the area lacks a CCT and guard providing service.

>>76329724
Seen worse, even if working sundays is pretty bad

I just took a night shift job, 7 AM to 7 PM for 3 days a week. I already don't have a social life, so nothing is changing there. I'm just afraid it's going to fuck up my eating/lifting schedule.

>>76334897
>work from home night shift
doing what?

>>76339117
Security/service desk kind of bullshit. Some days(nights) are hot, most are not. Watching stuff on YT and playing games until early in the morning most of the time and shitposting here, then sleeping until the early afternoon. Out to catch some sunlight in the backyard and straight to lifting before the normies' workday is over and the gym gets swarmed
Wouldn't change it for a 9-5r for double the pay.

>>76333055
>I usually sleep at 1 after midnight
That's nowhere remotely close to a night shift you have to be going to sleep while the sun is clearly risen.
And yes, its fucking awful the only upside is that you're mostly unbothered during that time so you can try to work shit in but its barely even half effectiveness because of terrible sleep and the whole time you're working you KNOW in the back of your head your whole day is being wasted for shit that nobody actually needs done at four in the morning.

>>76328984
Working nights ages you like shit

>>76336876
Ah so the schedule is in Norwegian then?

I've been working nights for a few years and don't mind it too much especially when it consistent, but then again I usually wasn't sleeping during the night anyway when I was studying / NEET. If I had an active social life maybe it would bother me more.

>>76328984
shift rotation is what fucked me up. The constant changes in sleep schedule wreaks havoc on your appetite, gut health is shot to shit and you are constantly trying to catch up to your sleeping rhythm.

Add to that the energy drinks and you have heart palpitations at 30 if not careful.

7 shifts including the weekends is how you sell your health for money.

I already had 0 social life, working nights has made everything even worse I genuinely cannot move from bed when I get home
I haven't worked out in months
I lost like 20lbs
Any chance I had of getting a gf is gone at this point