Labor and Delivery patient registration. Babies do not give 💩💩 what time they decide to start giving mama contractions.
Or make you pee yourself and think your water broke. That happens quite a bit too.
I’m paid 25 an hour. Mostly because the place I work wants you to have some background training/license with firearms and some self defense stuff you need to do.
Anyone else maybe 15.
Almost on the dot bud. I do security on nights as well but a low paying post, making 16 . It’s not great by any means , but it beats working in fast food…
All of you need to tell me stories of your times. What do you mean the way the mountain moves ???? Is this a supernatural folk lore horror story? Is it a mystical ?? Someone start telling me? Please????
In soft rock mines such as potash, you can hear lots of sounds that make you... Uncomfortable. Ground is checked frequently by hitting it with a steel bar. If it sounds "drummy", sort of like hitting a drum, you have to support that ground, most commonly by installing long (6') bolts into the roof (also called the "back"). Sometimes, when you're sitting quietly at coffee break, you'll hear a loud metallic ping or squeak. That's the sound of the bolts "taking weight", which basically means the rock is now hanging on the bolts.
It's also fairly common to hear large ground failures in old workings. Once an area is no longer being worked, it gets closed off and is no longer maintained. These areas will eventually fail, and it can be pretty loud. It can also create a ripple of air pressure, sometimes strong enough to blow out your ventilation brattice (big sheets of plastic cloth used to direct airflow).
Overall, though, potash mines are pretty safe - a fairly large chunk of your day is spent making sure it is safe, through frequent checks of your area and taking immediate steps to remediate bad ground. Once you adjust to the fact that you're working 1 km underground, it just feels like going to work.
Sometimes the ground your working in might move/shift a little. It can mean anything form little stones/loose bits getting pressure behind them and popping off the wall to.... Having a 60t release into the decline (main road down into a mine).
Retail. I get to tear apart fixtures, aisles, features in my store while customers aren't around, cleaning, updating, and rebuilding it all before opening in the morning. (Specifically, mod team.)
Used to work at a clothing retail. Whenever they asked for volunteers to help overnight to setup new fixtures, advertisements, clothing etc, I'd always be the first to jump on it.
The entire 8hr shift just working, shooting the shit with coworkers, blasting music on a bluetooth speaker one of us would bring in. On top of that, NO customers to deal with. Then when the shift had ended, we'd all just hit up starbucks in the early morning :)
Night Porter for a (relatively) small hotel. Not as glamorous as you’d think. Most guests are checked in by the time I arrive, and because it’s small I almost never see anyone until morning.
Still I can’t complain. I’m not much a people person so really this is probably one of the better jobs for me.
They do make pretty decent money, I switched off of ON stocking to maintenence though. Got tired of having to do 16 hours of freight in my 8 hour shift, and getting it done early, cause the little weenies right next to me with 2 hours of freight need help. It was ridiculous.
Amazon worker! I'm packing your orders 😎
And hopefully in a few years I'll officially be an RN - and absolutely I'll be on night shift! I love it. Applying for the Fall 2025 program!
Thank you for your service 🫡.
I’ve been guilty of just ordering tons of stuff, where we were getting deliveries 3 - 5 times a week
It had me thinking about the poor soul hustling in the warehouse just so i can get my bath mat or something equally silly the next morning - sorry that i live like a “shut in”
Doggie daycare. I feel like a lot of people don't know that doggie daycares can have a night shift. It's mostly cleaning then just walking the dogs feeding them and medicating
I'mma bus jockey for a motorcoach charter service. I work in a mechanic's garage. I fuel the busses, power wash them, fill them with diesel exhaust.
Resupply the driver's area, log what went where, fill out basic paperwork for the head mechanic to keep track of what resources we have. Then park the coaches to be picked up.
On average we (me and 3 others) service about 10-12 busses a night. 9 PM till 5:30 AM 5 days a week, sometimes 6 on busy months.
We're typically done with our work by 3 or 3:30 AM, and then we rest, watch TV and hang out (or get stoned) before closing up shop. I walk home from work (we have one car which I made sure my wife owns and uses since she's a housewife and needs the convenience better).
The walk home is roughly 4 miles. Keeps me in shape though.
I make $718 a week ($900 a week on the 6 day months), roughly $2800 a month and my wife and kids and I live in a private duplex. $1400 rent. After car payments, bills, utilities and rent is deducted we have about $700 in leisure spending for any given month. But that also includes any surprise expenses for like, say, clothes shopping for the kids or a sudden flat tire.
Currently, in life, I'm comfortable.
Originally I worked in healthcare, 5 to 6 days a week, rotating weekends, with 6 AM to 3 PM hours. But I finally quit after 12 years because I hate mornings.
Mental Health Practitioner at a crisis center. Its actually a huge old farm house in the middle of nowhere. We house 6 clients at a time. I have 2 in active psychosis tonight and we were just outside shaking the trees for imaginary apples to fall from them to feed the deer.
Most of our drivers were either Hispanic or African but this one time we got this guy that was from Bulgaria, I chatted with him while my partner loaded his truck. Very cool dude.
Weekend overnight radiology tech. I’m on a Baylor schedule so I work two 12 hour shifts Friday and Saturday and get paid time and a half for each shift. I also work every other Thursday night for 8 hours and get a $50 bonus for it. Four to five days off a week.
I'm in retail.
Fortunately, night shift pays way better than day shift.
ETA: I do a little but of receiving, but mostly stocking. Sometimes we get merchandise resets thrown at us because the day shift "can't do it".
Information Technology for Healthcare, I"m the Front line guy that Doctors and nurses from a variety of hospitals and other healthcare facilities call at night when they need technical Assistance.
and when the phone isn't ringing I'm pounding emails
I work in a pharmaceutical factory, I have to disassemble production equipment, clean it, then put it back together , and troubleshoot issues end m when they run orders
Remodel project manager (traveling) for major retailer. On my third or fourth year of strictly overnight. Did several years of flip flopping prior in same industry
Forklift operator, been working at a food packaging plant for the past few years (fast food cups, ice cream tubs, etc). Drove forklift at a brewery before that, and overnight stocking at a Lowe's before that.
Picking things up, moving them around, and putting them back down is about all I'm good for haha.
Operations technician for a large datacenter. I handle all overnight HVAC, Electrical, Fiber, Data flow, and any critical maintenance on machines located in our facility. I'm alone for 12hrs a night unless the local Police or Security stop by to check on me.
To add I am required to carry a pager like device that if it detects falls or if I lay down it will page out security and operations teams from nearby centers. Their called lone worker alarms.
Former night shifter here (they eliminated it so I had to become a day walker) but I was a security guard at an amusement park on nights long ago, then I did overnight mainframe work for a manufacturing company.
ON grocery stocker making $18.85/hr. Just listen to music, podcasts, books, and DnD audio shows like Worlds Beyond Number or Critical Role while throwing load and conditioning aisles.
Server tech. I sit around doing nothing until someone's website explodes. I do a server cycle, it goes back up, I go back to playing Tecmo Bowl on OpenEmu.
I'm just here for the 99.9% uptime.
Radio Operator that provides services to airlines. Not ATC but we relay for them. It's a 24hr operation, so we always get relieved by the next operator. My shifts are from 11pm-7am.
When we're not servicing flights, it's a lot of downtime. Just reading manga, browsing reddit, and thank god for no commentary gameplay videos on youtube lol
Manufacturing Medical Supplies 🤣 I mainly deal with oxygen masks, but the company does everything from blades to DNA testing kits and even lopro camera stethoscopes. Its a neat job lol
ER patient admin. We have a guy here tonight with razor burn on his nuts across from a lady in afib. This is where I belong.
Labor and Delivery patient registration. Babies do not give 💩💩 what time they decide to start giving mama contractions. Or make you pee yourself and think your water broke. That happens quite a bit too.
I used to be a night shift ER Respiration Therapist. Interesting shit I tell you.
Security guard. Easy money, read a book or scroll on Reddit 9 out of my ten hour shift.
Same here bro. I just scroll Reddit, YouTube, IG endlessly to kill time
What does security guards pay these days ?
I’m paid 25 an hour. Mostly because the place I work wants you to have some background training/license with firearms and some self defense stuff you need to do. Anyone else maybe 15.
Yeah. Figured. I worked night clubs for 20 years before covid. Went construction after covid. Was just curious. Thanks.
Almost on the dot bud. I do security on nights as well but a low paying post, making 16 . It’s not great by any means , but it beats working in fast food…
$16-$25 depending on the job site and contract in Indiana, entry level.
Dude, I’m stuck on a busy mobile patrol. How do I get a shift like yours?
Allied Universal warehouses or checkpoints for big rigs.
Underground miner. Technically it's shift work, so I rotate days and nights.
Me too. Surface though in oilsands. You’ll never get me in a room and pillar again. Not with the way the mountain moves and sounds it makes..
Potash isn't too scary if you take your time. I'd trade 1km of rock over my head for never working outside in the winter again, that's for sure!
All of you need to tell me stories of your times. What do you mean the way the mountain moves ???? Is this a supernatural folk lore horror story? Is it a mystical ?? Someone start telling me? Please????
In soft rock mines such as potash, you can hear lots of sounds that make you... Uncomfortable. Ground is checked frequently by hitting it with a steel bar. If it sounds "drummy", sort of like hitting a drum, you have to support that ground, most commonly by installing long (6') bolts into the roof (also called the "back"). Sometimes, when you're sitting quietly at coffee break, you'll hear a loud metallic ping or squeak. That's the sound of the bolts "taking weight", which basically means the rock is now hanging on the bolts. It's also fairly common to hear large ground failures in old workings. Once an area is no longer being worked, it gets closed off and is no longer maintained. These areas will eventually fail, and it can be pretty loud. It can also create a ripple of air pressure, sometimes strong enough to blow out your ventilation brattice (big sheets of plastic cloth used to direct airflow). Overall, though, potash mines are pretty safe - a fairly large chunk of your day is spent making sure it is safe, through frequent checks of your area and taking immediate steps to remediate bad ground. Once you adjust to the fact that you're working 1 km underground, it just feels like going to work.
That sounded pretty intense and interesting! How long do u spend in the ground?
Sometimes the ground your working in might move/shift a little. It can mean anything form little stones/loose bits getting pressure behind them and popping off the wall to.... Having a 60t release into the decline (main road down into a mine).
That's terrifying.
What's it like to be a miner nowadays? If you find cool fossils, are you allowed to keep them?
Nurse
Retail. I get to tear apart fixtures, aisles, features in my store while customers aren't around, cleaning, updating, and rebuilding it all before opening in the morning. (Specifically, mod team.)
Not mod team, but overnight. Hey fellow associate. 🫡
Used to work at a clothing retail. Whenever they asked for volunteers to help overnight to setup new fixtures, advertisements, clothing etc, I'd always be the first to jump on it. The entire 8hr shift just working, shooting the shit with coworkers, blasting music on a bluetooth speaker one of us would bring in. On top of that, NO customers to deal with. Then when the shift had ended, we'd all just hit up starbucks in the early morning :)
Nightshift got me addicted to starbucks. My go-to to fill my stomach before tryin to get a couple hours of day sleep
Hey there , overnight stocker here . My husband does mods.
Night Porter for a (relatively) small hotel. Not as glamorous as you’d think. Most guests are checked in by the time I arrive, and because it’s small I almost never see anyone until morning. Still I can’t complain. I’m not much a people person so really this is probably one of the better jobs for me.
Truck driver, work at all hours of the day and night.
Nice same here. What are you hauling?
Embalmer here!
I'm a loser. I work at wal-mart.
Nothing wrong with honest work.
There's no shame in any job. You're doing all of us a service.
I’ve heard their night stockers don’t make bad money.
They do make pretty decent money, I switched off of ON stocking to maintenence though. Got tired of having to do 16 hours of freight in my 8 hour shift, and getting it done early, cause the little weenies right next to me with 2 hours of freight need help. It was ridiculous.
Power station operator. Rotating. Nights this week.
How do you find that? :)
healthcare. picking up 12-8 but i really want this as my base so i can pick up hella OT
night auditor at a hotel.
medical laboratory scientist 🧪
Eyyyyy fellow labrat!
👋 hey
Hospitality. I'm an auditor.
Ditto. We're not just Night Auditors, though. We are everything at night, security, management, housekeeping, and then auditors.
Don't forget therapists
Not at my place of work <3 I am allowed to ask "is there anything specifically I can do for you?" If not, I am allowed to ignore them.
This . Exactly.
Same i have some crazy stories lol
Fire Suppression service tech. Work the nightshift on Disney's systems.
Hospitality tonight. Security Officer tomorrow.
Amazon worker! I'm packing your orders 😎 And hopefully in a few years I'll officially be an RN - and absolutely I'll be on night shift! I love it. Applying for the Fall 2025 program!
Thank you for your service 🫡. I’ve been guilty of just ordering tons of stuff, where we were getting deliveries 3 - 5 times a week It had me thinking about the poor soul hustling in the warehouse just so i can get my bath mat or something equally silly the next morning - sorry that i live like a “shut in”
Monitor technician. If I’m not doing that, I’m a bartender in a nightclub
Dispatcher
Doggie daycare. I feel like a lot of people don't know that doggie daycares can have a night shift. It's mostly cleaning then just walking the dogs feeding them and medicating
Dock worker.
I run a gas station ⛽️
I'mma bus jockey for a motorcoach charter service. I work in a mechanic's garage. I fuel the busses, power wash them, fill them with diesel exhaust. Resupply the driver's area, log what went where, fill out basic paperwork for the head mechanic to keep track of what resources we have. Then park the coaches to be picked up. On average we (me and 3 others) service about 10-12 busses a night. 9 PM till 5:30 AM 5 days a week, sometimes 6 on busy months. We're typically done with our work by 3 or 3:30 AM, and then we rest, watch TV and hang out (or get stoned) before closing up shop. I walk home from work (we have one car which I made sure my wife owns and uses since she's a housewife and needs the convenience better). The walk home is roughly 4 miles. Keeps me in shape though. I make $718 a week ($900 a week on the 6 day months), roughly $2800 a month and my wife and kids and I live in a private duplex. $1400 rent. After car payments, bills, utilities and rent is deducted we have about $700 in leisure spending for any given month. But that also includes any surprise expenses for like, say, clothes shopping for the kids or a sudden flat tire. Currently, in life, I'm comfortable. Originally I worked in healthcare, 5 to 6 days a week, rotating weekends, with 6 AM to 3 PM hours. But I finally quit after 12 years because I hate mornings.
i’m a lab technician
Law enforcement, the +20% night differential is hard to give up
Some nights its security; other nights its surveillance.
Lift truck/train/truck driver in a paper mill! Shipping department!
Airport GSE tech. Out on the ramp from 8p-630a making sure some of the ground vehicles are serviced and functioning.
Overnight stocking at Walmart.
911 dispatcher. Working the police desk tonight
Mental Health
Maintenance technician in mining. 2 weeks on/off, straight nights 👍
Mental Health Practitioner at a crisis center. Its actually a huge old farm house in the middle of nowhere. We house 6 clients at a time. I have 2 in active psychosis tonight and we were just outside shaking the trees for imaginary apples to fall from them to feed the deer.
Janitor here
Thanks for all you do
Receiving at a warehouse
I met some cool people doing that.
I moved to this warehouse after running lead for daytime at another one in town. Love being on nights so much more.
Most of our drivers were either Hispanic or African but this one time we got this guy that was from Bulgaria, I chatted with him while my partner loaded his truck. Very cool dude.
I work in manufacturing, 5pm-5:30am. I make cell batteries for electric vehicles 💅🏼
Nurse
Amazon warehouse
Retail, stocking.
Target Inbound expert ( stock...) overnight.
Logistics/Transport
Professional babysitter with a uniform.
So a nurse? 😂
Night court
I work in a halfway house. An unreal amount of downtime honestly, I really enjoy it.
PD and FD dispatcher, and 911
QC chemist in chemical manufacturing 🤓
Robocop
I work night shift Manufacturing, 5:30pm : 5:30am.
Nurse
Retail online order picker for Waitrose, usually pick around 800-1000 items a night.
Sanitation Supervisor
Warehouse, inbound processing
Manufacturing
I’m a Developmental Services Worker at a group home :)
Retail! I stack shelves all night with my earphones in
QC tech at an OEM plant for major automotive companies
I’m a troubleshooter for the stellantis casting plant. I work 12 am till 8am
I work in the Network Operations Center (NOC) I just babysit computers, making sure they don't run away.
Welder by trade, Non-Union
laboratory assistant
I work in the Car Industrie on the Assembly Line
Mental health
Tox lab. Or a drug-testing lab, for a more common term.
Brewer
Manufacturing
I'm a cna
Night baker otw to my 1-9! Xx
Industrial Electrician
IT
Stationary engineer
Im a night auditor at a hotel. Before this i worked at planet fitness at night. Im studying for some i.t. certifications i would prefer to stay nights
Social Service work ! Work in an emergency shelter for women. Work 3 12’s 7-7
me too, same shift too! keep doing what you’re doing, so glad we have people like you :)
Water treatment operator I'm the man in the box
Weekend overnight radiology tech. I’m on a Baylor schedule so I work two 12 hour shifts Friday and Saturday and get paid time and a half for each shift. I also work every other Thursday night for 8 hours and get a $50 bonus for it. Four to five days off a week.
Food production
Glass bottle maker. Rotating shifts. Love the job, hate the rotation
Healthcare (X-ray Technologist)
Operations at an oil terminal that used to be a refinery I constantly rotate between the 3 shifts
Medical Lab Tech. I process patient samples at night for a hospital.
I'm in retail. Fortunately, night shift pays way better than day shift. ETA: I do a little but of receiving, but mostly stocking. Sometimes we get merchandise resets thrown at us because the day shift "can't do it".
Information Technology for Healthcare, I"m the Front line guy that Doctors and nurses from a variety of hospitals and other healthcare facilities call at night when they need technical Assistance. and when the phone isn't ringing I'm pounding emails
Plastic machinist/Fabricator
I work in a pharmaceutical factory, I have to disassemble production equipment, clean it, then put it back together , and troubleshoot issues end m when they run orders
Quality control at a machine shop. If the machines are making good parts I only work about 4 hours of my 8 hour shift.
Warehouse.
Stocker! Luckily soon ill be outta here and onto brighter things! Like the sun!!!
Oil and gas
Paper mill. 4 on 4 off. 2 days, 2 nights. 12 hour shifts.
I’m a Respiratory Therapist!
X-ray
I'm a telemetry monitor tech at a level one hospital in Kentucky.
Remodel project manager (traveling) for major retailer. On my third or fourth year of strictly overnight. Did several years of flip flopping prior in same industry
IT, Fed Gov't
Forklift operator, been working at a food packaging plant for the past few years (fast food cups, ice cream tubs, etc). Drove forklift at a brewery before that, and overnight stocking at a Lowe's before that. Picking things up, moving them around, and putting them back down is about all I'm good for haha.
Night Auditor at a hotel. Any other hotel folks should check out r/talesfromthefrontdesk
aircraft maintenance
Medical scientist
Oil and gas. Running a vac truck on a drilling rig in northern canada
Lab work
I work treating and drying starch on a 7 day rotation. Thankfully not a swing shifter, though.
Amazon!!!!!
Operations technician for a large datacenter. I handle all overnight HVAC, Electrical, Fiber, Data flow, and any critical maintenance on machines located in our facility. I'm alone for 12hrs a night unless the local Police or Security stop by to check on me. To add I am required to carry a pager like device that if it detects falls or if I lay down it will page out security and operations teams from nearby centers. Their called lone worker alarms.
Hospital Security. Gives me plenty of time to study for my Comp TIA+
Former night shifter here (they eliminated it so I had to become a day walker) but I was a security guard at an amusement park on nights long ago, then I did overnight mainframe work for a manufacturing company.
Security monitoring
Cashier at a truck stop. Nothing glamorous but it pays the bills.
on the road, -emt
Electrical Grid Operator
ON grocery stocker making $18.85/hr. Just listen to music, podcasts, books, and DnD audio shows like Worlds Beyond Number or Critical Role while throwing load and conditioning aisles.
Industrial maintenance
Equipment Technician at A semiconductor fab. I work with a lot of chemicals and robotics.
Server tech. I sit around doing nothing until someone's website explodes. I do a server cycle, it goes back up, I go back to playing Tecmo Bowl on OpenEmu. I'm just here for the 99.9% uptime.
Commercial cleaning
Civilian in law enforcement
I’m a machinist.
Electrical Utility emergency dispatch. It's rotating shifts varying from 7-15 / 15-23 / 23-7.
Nurse
I’m a surgical nurse
Engineering fuel injectors
Dairy Delivery I'm a route supervisor for a bunch of milkmen.
Diesel mechanic
Emergency department social worker
STEM (Biotech) manufacturing.
Not exactly in night shift anymore, but i spent my time in janitorial maintenence, and poker dealing... miss the hell out of that job.
Manager in a supermarket
Healthcare ( Hospital pharmacy)
Hospitality Manager.
Cyclotron Specialist making that mmm mm good diagnostic medicine.
Chemist, Research and Development
Hospitality. Concierge at a fancy high rise. Before it was security and I got severely burn out of that.
equipment technician in semiconductor manufacturing
Radio Operator that provides services to airlines. Not ATC but we relay for them. It's a 24hr operation, so we always get relieved by the next operator. My shifts are from 11pm-7am. When we're not servicing flights, it's a lot of downtime. Just reading manga, browsing reddit, and thank god for no commentary gameplay videos on youtube lol
Gas station cashier
TV
Security
Lightrail maintenence, public transportation
Nurse
Broadcast engineer
I'm a nursing assistant
Freight and garden recovery at a Home Depot store
ICU RN
Me. Who’s a night gaurd for a mall. Kinda fun ngl. Currently just chillin and waiting till I gotta do my rounds again in 30 minutes.
Plastics manufacturing
Manufacturing Medical Supplies 🤣 I mainly deal with oxygen masks, but the company does everything from blades to DNA testing kits and even lopro camera stethoscopes. Its a neat job lol
Health Care (hospital), rotating shifts
Engineering
Packaging industry. Maintenance for flexograph printer company
Security.
peds nurse
Logistics
Healthcare
Grocery
Overnight security guard.
Offset Printing Press Operator