I work nights in IT and have done so for many years (more than a decade). It's finally begun to take its toll, especially since I have to move my sleep schedul

I work nights in IT and have done so for many years (more than a decade). It's finally begun to take its toll, especially since I have to move my sleep schedule around on my weekend to be able to do anything with my spouse, kid, or friends. For the past several weeks, I was working an afternoon/evening schedule instead of my usual overnight one and the sleep difference has been amazing. Even though I really like working nights--no managers around, slower pace, lights can be off in the ops bay--I'm probably going to switch shifts. It surprised me how much different my sleeping was even after doing this for more than 10 years. You'd think, or I thought, that my sleep cycle would be adjusted by now but it wasn't. When I needed to go to bed at 2am to get up at 11am and be off to work for these past few weeks, no problem at all. No fatigue, no rolling around half-awake for an hour in the middle of my sleep, nothing. The point that really hit me was about eating in the middle of the night, even when shift workers are supposed to be awake. I have a horrible diet, mostly McDonald's and whatever I bring from home since there's nothing open for food, and that struck hard that the consequences of this are even worse on my current shift.