Has anyone started shift work later in life?

[Phonedrone]

I did very short stint of shift work between the ages of 18 and 20, it was fine, I was young and could sleep well and recover easily.

I’m now pushing 48, peri menopausal so sleep badly on and off anyway and have been semi offered a promotion but it’s shift work, nights, afternoons and mornings pattern.

It’s a supervisor role and something I’ve been keen to get into now the children are grown. Quite a step up on salary too.

Has anyone done this later in life? Will I kill myself with tiredness? Am so tempted but my current 9-5 role is very safe and means I can get up 8am and still be easily in work for 9. Great for the nights where I’ve not slept so well.

It’s a dilemma!

I’m mid thirties and spent my early twenties doing shift work and I feel too old for it now. It makes me depressed if I don’t get enough sleep. I personally would swerve the job.

I'm mid forties and work shifts. I love my job, but there's no way to do it without shift work, so I do it.

Fortunately I only have one DS (nearly 17) who is almost completely self sufficient. There's little that happens where he needs me that cannot wait until I'm awake. I also sleep extremely well (it's like my superpower!) at anytime in any place. This is truthfully the only way I can manage shifts now, and my standards are exceptionally low on certain days as well