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I did night shift for about 18 years, if you include the years I was a baker and did 3am-11am shift.
It was definitely bad for the body, I think the worst thing for people is that they try to live a dayshift life while on nightshift and that just kills you faster, you sleep 2 or 3 hours so you can live a day life while falling asleep on the job.
If your going to do nights then treat it like the day/night is reversed.
Still tough, I average like 5 hrs of sleep. Even if you're exhausted, your body just doesn't want to sleep in the day. So you wind up being some kind of witch doctor, where you have to perform this bizarre ritual with sage smoke and a sacrifice with a bone knife... Sometimes it works, sometimes you summon Caligula. I didn't sleep that day, but my neighbors no longer pester me about mowing the lawn at 7 AM.
There's people (like me) who are just wired like night owls. I can sleep during the day no problem. It's just sad that the society expects most people to be "morning people" and just randomly expects some to be able to handle the night shifts, instead of helping people self-select.