I had to leave my job as a 911 call taker/police dispatcher because I was being switched to nights and I was literally unable to adjust when I had had to work nights previously. You’d think a few weeks of the same schedule would be enough to adjust, but nope. It would get to be 3:00 a.m. and I would be falling asleep in my chair.

My store has shift work, but does it in a sane way. The people whose schedules could change bid for schedules on a week by week basis, and they’re awarded by seniority. In theory, you could get stuck with a closing shift going into an opening shift, but in practice it never happens because all the opening shifts get snapped up by the senior employees every week.

Yup, working shifts since almost 20 years, my only motivation for becoming an entrepreneur is to be able to stop working those hours…

And I am not working for a shit company, we are treated very well and are probably amongst the top 5% luckiest employees in our country. But working shifts sucks, no matter how you sugarcoat it, it still sucks.