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It's well established that shift work destroys you. Don't do it.
by benevol 11y ago
It's well established that shift work destroys you. Don't do it.
- dugditches 11y agoNot everyone has the privilege to simply "n't do it".
- rattray 11y agoReally? Scientific studies are now establishing that this or that "destroys you"? I find it rather presumptive that you simply tell this person not to do something, period. They have more information about their own life and the trade-offs involved. As a straw man, maybe they earn enough from occasional shifts to pay for treatment of an otherwise deadly medical condition, or don't have other economic opportunities. In addition, many jobs simply need to be done in shifts, and someone's gotta do it. Servers need monitoring, hospitals need staffing, power plants need running.
- scrapcode 11y agoIronically, I am an operating engineer at a power plant. So, yeah, I don't have much of a choice.
- eloff 11y agoYou can argue about his choice of words, but shift workers fare worse on just about every measure of physical and mental well-being. There's always a choice. If I were the OP, rather than try to band-aid the symptoms with medications, I would plan and prepare to change my career to something where I don't have to do shift work. Just the same as if I had a job that I hated. It's just a job, better to find one that doesn't have so many negative impacts on your life.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> Really? Scientific studies are now establishing that this or that "destroys you"? I'm not going to go grab links for you, but yes, shift work is terribly detrimental to your health. Google "shift work health risks". > In addition, many jobs simply need to be done in shifts, and someone's gotta do it. Servers need monitoring, hospitals need staffing, power plants need running. Indeed. They can pay extra for the requirement, while we ensure we have regulations to keep people who have to do it as healthy as possible.
- Spooky23 11y agoIf you shift "backwards" doing shift work, you're significantly more likely to have a heart attack, accident, etc. Take a few minutes and google it, this has been studied for 100 years or more.
- scrapcode 11y agoI wish that were a choice! Unfortunately for me most of my career options are shift-work based at this time. Thanks for the suggestion, though.