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8 Types of Jobs That Ruin Your Sleep Pattern 

June 26, 2020 by Annie

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Although many things can ruin your sleep pattern. Some jobs can affect your sleep pattern as well. Is the job that you go to one of them? Jobs that wreck your sleep pattern can also affect your general health and well-being. As sleep is important, especially when you have to go to work the next day. Also, you might end up doing a mistake in your job if you are sleep deprived. Especially where you have to serve people like nurses. Therefore, it is important to know how best you can find a sleep schedule that can work well with the type of work that you have to do. Below are types of jobs that ruin your sleep pattern.

1. News reporter 

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There is a whole new field of shift workers that were brought by the start of 24-hour cable news. Not only the cable news reporter but the producers, camera operators, and other people in the team. Who have to cover the live reports throughout the night. Hence, if you are a news reporter, your sleep pattern may be affected often due to the nature of your work. Also, other industries are expanding in various ways. The world is moving more towards adding shift workers to their team. Hence, many people now work nights, evenings, and many other irregular shifts, depending on the demand from their job.

2. Bartender

Many people go partying up to the wee hours, and the bartenders are there to serve them. In some cities, the bartender and other workers in the bar, like bodyguards and waiters, end up working almost the whole night to serve their clients. Even so, there are people that such a schedule does not bother them, as they are night owls, and feel more alert at night. Others find it difficult to adjust this schedule to their sleep pattern. However, to manage this shift, ensure that you keep the same schedule on days that you are off. Although, some people find it a challenge to adapt even in this way.

3. New parent 

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Every new parent knows the struggle of getting enough sleep or sticking to the same sleep pattern. Even with a quality mattress depot mattress, this job is legendary in the ability to ruin your sleep. So, with a newborn waking up every few hours and you have to attend to them. It becomes a challenge for the parents to get deep sleep or complete all the sleep cycles. Because of this, most parents are sleep deprived and feel fatigued until their baby can sleep through the night. Although the hours of sleep they get are around seven, the sleep is fragmented, and it is not as refreshing. Fortunately, by 16 weeks, the situation improves as the baby starts to adapt to their new bed.

4. Nurse 

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One job that has honors shift work from a long time ago is that of hospital nurses. Through this noble profession, they give continuous care to the patients. Although, many of them are not able to follow a consistent sleep pattern. As the service job wrecks the sleep quality and quantity they get. Also, according to research, nurses have less focus and are less alert in the last four hours of their shift. So it raises some concerns about the effectiveness of their service to people when they have low focus. This also applies to medical interns, hence why they are most of the time looking sleep-deprived.

5. Police officers

All night and day, the police are alert to serve and protect their citizens. In many departments, they use rotating shifts. In this way, most of them have their sleep patterns affected since they have to change their shifts with others. Although it helps to ensure there is 24-hour coverage to the people. It includes working in the worst hours and holidays as well. Hence, with the rotating shifts, getting to adapt to one sleep schedule is a challenge. Moreover, when you switch between a day shift and an afternoon shift, it is easier than shifting between a day and a night shift as the circadian rhythm cannot adapt.

6. Factory workers 

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All over the world, the manufacturing industry prefers shift work to get their work moving and to increase their productivity. Still, there are costs that these factory workers have to pay in comparison to non-shift workers. The shift workers, in most instances, get fewer hours of sleep, on the days that they are working. As a result, this makes them tired and drowsy most of the time, and it is risky as it can easily cause workplace injuries. Factory workers also get depression, diabetes, and high blood pressure as these sicknesses are a link to poor sleep.

7. Truck drivers 

Due to the tight delivery schedules that truck drivers have to keep up with, they end up taking to the road at night as it also helps them to avoid the day time traffic. In this job, the effects of poor sleep all over the world are well documented. For instance, in the united states, roadway crashes are at the top of the cause of work-related deaths. Because of their sleep patterns being affected, they drive while drowsy. Hence, it is important if this is the job that you do, you be careful on the road and take naps were necessary to avoid any possible accidents.

8. Airplane pilots 

A pilot that drives commercial planes has to deal with little sleep. This is because they face irregular hours, jet lag, and long shifts when they travel to various time zones all around the world. Although they have the advantage of traveling the world with their job. Their sleep pattern, in many cases, is affected. Fortunately, to avoid any possible pilot fatigue, there are strict guidelines on rest time and flight time that have to be followed. Also, they need to have 8 hours of uninterrupted rest, in the 24 hours before a complete flight is over.

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About Me

Hi! I'm Annie and I have 3 kids (all in their teens - yikes!). My mommy blog isn't all about lunches and DIY - it's also about humour. Like how my kids make fun of my texts as if I don't know how to use emojis (I DO!). Now that I have a bit more time - since my kids don't want to hang out with me (teenagers), I have taken up blogging.

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