A final thought for today.

If you are a shift worker, ie: someone who works more than 3 night shifts per month, stop doing this as soon as possible. It’s not worth it. Full stop.

Shift work is a carcinogen. While the World Health Organization has defined it only as a “likely carcinogen”, the data tells an otherwise very clear story. Working nights shortens your life (by approximately 7 years according to best available estimates) and can literally kill you in a myriad of ways ranging from accidents, domestic violence, suicide, and good old cancer.

There is a hilarious shift that occurred in the published narrative on this topic when the first lawsuit was brought against an employer by a night shift nurse who developed breast cancer. All of a sudden, all the research into the negative health effects of shift work “shifted” (pun intended) to ways in which night shift personnel could make lifestyle modifications to lessen its impacts. Nowhere, for many years, has any published paper substantially addressed ways in which employers should improve or be held accountable for the damage they are causing by requiring workers to endure such physiologically unsound working conditions.

So yes, if you work nights, STOP. Your pathetic shift differential is not worth it. Nothing is worth it. Put the onus back on the employers to come up with meaningful solutions and resist the temptation to sell yourselves so cheaply.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously