I need to find a new job, and I figure an overnight job is for me [I'm not very good at conversing with new people, so why not work while they're all sleeping?]. Anybody know of any good overnight jobs? So far I'm considering the graveyard shift at Walmart or Target, but you know....

I work the audit shift at a hotel. (11 - 7). Its fucking tit. I do about 45 minutes of actual work.

System administrator.

check around hospitals near you. There's usually something.

www.liflinesys.com

post office is always hiring scabs to sort mail at the distribution/processing centers. job is easy as fuck and pay is good.

i can recommend a night job NOT to take.

When i was still cooking for a living (before i entered corporate america) and before i was to "culinarian" level, i worked the graveyard at the South St. Diner. (around the corner from south station.) The only 24 hour restaurant in downtown boston. Which in turn meant that i had to cook for all the prostitutes, dealers, lunatics, and rowdy college kids (the worst of all). And they would sit RIGHT behind me while i cooked so they could yell at me telling me that i was "doing it wrong" and then the real drunk ones would touch me, and the hookers would offer sexual favors for food. While i usually would have accepted, these girls were whack. I worked from 6pm to 6am. 6days a week.
let me reiterate. 6pm to 6am... 6 days a week.
I needed a job real bad and they payed under the table, and it wasn't half bad wage either. But man, place was a nightmare. Seriously the worst job ever. We would serve upwards of 300 tables per night. No exaggeration. I would have nightmares about the never ending tickets, everyone would smoke crystal meth in the basement, there were bugs all over the place, the board of health was payed off a couple times and it STILL kept getting shut down... Dont anyone cook there, and..

nobody eat there. ever. trust me.

I understand prostitution is lucrative.

Well I just applied for the new Target in Stoughton....that place is fucking huge!

FUCK TARGET.

They will be on your ass to move faster, faster, faster and faster all night, and most likely they won't be pleased no matter what the outcome is. Management at Target (for the most part) is concerned with numbers and only numbers...not a surprise given it's a retail chain, but they push it too far. They have handbooks with guidelines on how quickly everything should be done, not taking into consideration that there will always be merchandise stocked in the wrong spot by careless employees (I don't blame them) or scattered by customers that don't give a shit, amongst many other problems (e.g. no room for anything even though the system says there is, pallets filling the entire backroom because they order more merchandise than is necessary).

I worked overnight at Target for 4 days and I can honestly say it was the worst 4 days of work I've ever endured, and I've taken some tough, shitty jobs before. I moved to days and it still sucked, but not as bad as working there overnight. Don't be surprised if your half hour lunch break doesn't come until an hour before your shift is over too, which sucks since you're busting your ass all night and working up quite the hunger.

Once again, fuck Target. I can only assume that most dept. store chains are the same way too.

An example of the book being wrong, by the way:

4 people (myself included) had to put 40 boxes (each box had anywhere between 2 and 20 items inside) away in 25 minutes, according to the book. We got 6 boxes done in 25 minutes and we were moving as fast as we could. We were all told to go do something else, and the 2 managers plus 1 "team lead"--kind of an assistant manager--kept going with our work. By the end of the shift, they still hadn't put everything away. Things like that happened pretty much every day.

Oh, also, if your shift is from 4:00 am to 12:30 pm, expect to stay until 2:00 pm sometimes. Or when they go into "holiday" hours from 10:30 pm to 7:00 am, expect to stay until 10:30 am sometimes. 2 out of the 4 days I worked overnight at Target ended up being 12 hour days, with no extra breaks and not even a fucking thank you.

Drive a cab, then quit and work for another cab company

Most cab companies pay you an hourly rate for the first few months before switching over to commission (unless it's a weekend you will not get more than two or three jobs working the overnight). So if you jump from company to company you can get in a few months of essentially being paid to take Crown Vics for joyrides. On some shifts I'd do donuts in the company lot for an hour and listen to my mp3 player, on others I'd try to set the high score on the digital speed limit signs in school zones. Sometimes I'd see how far I could drive into Western Mass before my shift was over. I got paid to do all of those things.

There's absolutely no structure as the dispatchers don't get on you unless there's a job and if you get on the radio and shoot the shit with the guy he'll likely give you an airport job right around the time you're about to go off the clock which is almost guaranteed a tip between $15-30.

Hahaha, if I didn't hate driving enough as it is I would totally drive a cab.

i lold at this

I am telling you check out lifeline, it sucks for some of the work and clients, but they pay extr and you can pick up extra hours and maybe get a night shift or third shift. They sometimes will pay you to just swipe from 25 to 100 dollars and then your hourly wage and then third shift differential. it is a money win win situation.. They are always looking for weekenders and nights... benefits, money and more money and it is up to you how much you work, besides the your regular 40 hours. Plus I get all benefits for about 20 a paycheck, you name it i have that benefit! Anyone... that is the only reason I amhere an stay for the OT...money!!!

dcu is gonna be hiring for the 2-11 shift

Well my buddy has been working there for a month now and according to him it's pretty laid back.

what you have just described was the hawks den at umass lowell....

marble work(doing lobby floors in hotels) is a lot of over night work. i get paid 17.50 an hour

i hated working overnight. i worked for a water bottle manufacturer in Auburn for about a year, it was 12-8 and i couldn't get used to it. it was easy work, but trying to sleep during the day just doesn't work for me.

Third shift warehouse jobs are usually pretty cool.

especially in the slow season....you get all your work done in three or four hours, take a meal break, then drink and smoke and play with the forklifts until your shift is over

now ain't that some shit, you make 50 cents more than me, and i work for the fucking state....i'm gettin jipped

at least you got a sweet hookah out of it