>>45916299>>45916347I'm in the same boat as him. I've been essentially working 12 hour night shifts for seven years, with a few months of day/night shift combos thrown in per year, usually during summer. And I'm in my late thirties. He isn't lying, to an extent - this shit completely destroys your ability to have a social life of any kind. Your schedule has nothing to do with how normal people live, and when it comes to women my interactions are sporadic and work related with no ability to actually get to know anyone. Friends and hanging out in any capacity just cannot happen. This is without taking the age issue in account.
Mentally, you go to shit. Not as in you get depressed, but there's an inherent mental drain, a sluggishness, irritability and anger that seems to pervade everything. As well as profound lazyness and inertia. Man was simply biologically not built to live like that, we are not a nocturnal species by any metric. And the usual opinion is that you'd get to learn something or do something intellectual at night - nope. Maybe if you had a month or so of it, but in essence it just makes you stupid. Nighttime was made for sleeping. The mind refuses to be competent.
The saddest part for me is that it's not my first rodeo. I worked all sorts of jobs during my life and this is the only one I've found that's at least a little bit tolerable. Fuck going back to retail or factory work, or God forbid the tourism industry. Life needs to be better than this, but still no answer to these questions.