[bevc]

What jobs can you get in IT where you work the night-shift? Anyone done it?

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'm going to have to get a job (I'm self-employed atm), don't know how long for. Of all the jobs I've had in my life, and I've had a few, the one I liked best was working night-shift (in a petrol station when I was a teenager), because it's so peaceful and quiet. I like 'work', what I hate is the endless noise and small talk and pointless meetings etc of having a job.

I can code, I'm not a rock star or anything, but I've built production apps in nodejs, php, javascript etc. I'm also studying for a ccna right now.

I'm trying to think of any IT night-shift jobs that I could do, and how I'd find them. Doesn't have to be a sexy job, doesn't have to lead to anything amazing (I'll still have my own thing going), doesn't have to pay particularly well.

Just interested if anyone has done it, or knows anything about it.

[.eXe]

A 24/7 helpdesk is the quickest and easiest entry to something like this. Outside of that, senior infrastructure engineers usually do night work.

[Disease]

What jobs can you get in IT where you work the night-shift? Anyone done it?

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'm going to have to get a job (I'm self-employed atm), don't know how long for. Of all the jobs I've had in my life, and I've had a few, the one I liked best was working night-shift (in a petrol station when I was a teenager), because it's so peaceful and quiet. I like 'work', what I hate is the endless noise and small talk and pointless meetings etc of having a job.

I can code, I'm not a rock star or anything, but I've built production apps in nodejs, php, javascript etc. I'm also studying for a ccna right now.

I'm trying to think of any IT night-shift jobs that I could do, and how I'd find them. Doesn't have to be a sexy job, doesn't have to lead to anything amazing (I'll still have my own thing going), doesn't have to pay particularly well.

Just interested if anyone has done it, or knows anything about it.

There aren't a lot of roles in IT that do third shift. For the most part it's just on-call work that might cause someone to work overnight.

The only roles I can think of, really, that are third shift by default are in data centers, in the NOC. They'll always have a skeleton crew, even overnight, observing the operation of the data center.

I'm sure there are others, but you'll find they're incredibly niche and limited in quantity. Which will make getting into such a position relatively difficult.

Have you considered looking for remote work? You may need to occasionally hop on a conference call, and be available for calls throughout the day. But for the most part you would be left alone to get your work done. And you'll be at home, so you won't be dealing with other people in person.

[X-32]

Mmm you're just like me.
I like "work", not small-talk/endless meetings.

[Maxie]

I currently work as a consultant for a smaller company and do their CRM system, I work whatever hours I like, which usually involves night.
If something crucial goes wrong though I usually work as soon as possible though, so that they don't actually lose money, but that's more of a personal obligation than a requirement I suppose.

[YikesAu]

What jobs can you get in IT where you work the night-shift? Anyone done it?

For reasons I won't bore you with, I'm going to have to get a job (I'm self-employed atm), don't know how long for. Of all the jobs I've had in my life, and I've had a few, the one I liked best was working night-shift (in a petrol station when I was a teenager), because it's so peaceful and quiet. I like 'work', what I hate is the endless noise and small talk and pointless meetings etc of having a job.

I can code, I'm not a rock star or anything, but I've built production apps in nodejs, php, javascript etc. I'm also studying for a ccna right now.

I'm trying to think of any IT night-shift jobs that I could do, and how I'd find them. Doesn't have to be a sexy job, doesn't have to lead to anything amazing (I'll still have my own thing going), doesn't have to pay particularly well.

Just interested if anyone has done it, or knows anything about it.

I mean i can only really think of like a live chat support agent maybe? Or late night IT support but im not sure. because there really isnt alot that needs to be done during the night.

[bevc]

There aren't a lot of roles in IT that do third shift.  For the most part it's just on-call work that might cause someone to work overnight.

The only roles I can think of, really, that are third shift by default are in data centers, in the NOC.  They'll always have a skeleton crew, even overnight, observing the operation of the data center.

I'm sure there are others, but you'll find they're incredibly niche and limited in quantity.  Which will make getting into such a position relatively difficult.

Have you considered looking for remote work?  You may need to occasionally hop on a conference call, and be available for calls throughout the day.  But for the most part you would be left alone to get your work done.  And you'll be at home, so you won't be dealing with other people in person.

Yeah, I have considered looking for remote work, that would probably be ideal for me and my situation, I'm just not sure of the best way to find it. Job sites seem to be very hit and miss. I have heard that demand for this kind of thing is ever increasing because of the virus, but I wouldn't know where to start, googling 'remote IT work' brings up ads and a lot of what is probably phishing/spammy shit. If you have any suggestions I'd be grateful.

(I actually do this anyway as part of my self-employed work, a lot of it is sorting out client's problems and answering their questions remotely).

Mmm you're just like me.
I like "work", not small-talk/endless meetings.

I think a lot of guys (men) interested in computers are the same, I like 'achieving tasks' but I really hate the relentless horrible 'social admin' of having a job, of commuting, and 8 hours a day of small talk with people you have nothing in common with, and being obliged to pretend that pointless shite is important.

There's a very good book by Susan Cain called 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts' that I suggest you read, she describes introverts as 'someone with a very low threshold for stimulation', which describes me very well.

[Disease]

Yeah, I have considered looking for remote work, that would probably be ideal for me and my situation, I'm just not sure of the best way to find it. Job sites seem to be very hit and miss. I have heard that demand for this kind of thing is ever increasing because of the virus, but I wouldn't know where to start, googling 'remote IT work' brings up ads and a lot of what is probably phishing/spammy shit. If you have any suggestions I'd be grateful.

(I actually do this anyway as part of my self-employed work, a lot of it is sorting out client's problems and answering their questions remotely).

Do you know yet what kind of work you're mostly interested in? And what line of work you feel you're most hire-able in? Different fields tend to have their own remote work listing sites, which you're better off on than a generic.

[bevc]

Do you know yet what kind of work you're mostly interested in?  And what line of work you feel you're most hire-able in?  Different fields tend to have their own remote work listing sites, which you're better off on than a generic.

Difficult to say, because I'm not much experienced doing 'proper' IT work in an official job role - I was always the 'IT guy' in the office, and from there I fell into being self-employed as a coder/web designer. I'm not particularly good at it (imposter syndrome a bit probably, but also truth), and I have no qualifications beyond work I've done.

I'm studying for cisco certification, but I'd do that for fun even if I wasn't looking for a job.

This is kinda my problem, I'm not really sure what I'm hire-able in. My IT work experience has mainly been just figuring out whatever problem has been presented to me. Frankly, what I'm interested in is a job that doesn't make me want to kill myself, because that's been my experience of every other job I've had, apart from being self-employed.

[Disease]

Difficult to say, because I'm not much experienced doing 'proper' IT work in an official job role - I was always the 'IT guy' in the office, and from there I fell into being self-employed as a coder/web designer. I'm not particularly good at it (imposter syndrome a bit probably, but also truth), and I have no qualifications beyond work I've done.

I'm studying for cisco certification, but I'd do that for fun even if I wasn't looking for a job.

This is kinda my problem, I'm not really sure what I'm hire-able in. My IT work experience has mainly been just figuring out whatever problem has been presented to me. Frankly, what I'm interested in is a job that doesn't make me want to kill myself, because that's been my experience of every other job I've had, apart from being self-employed.

I suppose settling on a direction for your career is step one. As until you do that, you really won't be working towards that goal of having a hire-able resume. And I mean, I'd hope whatever path that is, it's one that doesn't leave you wanting to kill yourself. That's a bleak outlook on life, if you judge your career happiness by whether you want to live or not!

Imposter Syndrome is a very real thing in our field. I can't stress it enough, that being cognizant of that is crucial.

[jecoylecoy]

Working night shift is good but I think there is a downside on it. It is difficult to sleep 8-10 hours at day time.

[bevc]

I suppose settling on a direction for your career is step one.  As until you do that, you really won't be working towards that goal of having a hire-able resume.  And I mean, I'd hope whatever path that is, it's one that doesn't leave you wanting to kill yourself.  That's a bleak outlook on life, if you judge your career happiness by whether you want to live or not!

Imposter Syndrome is a very real thing in our field.  I can't stress it enough, that being cognizant of that is crucial.

Thanks for the advice man, yeah, one of my problems is that I'm old (40), and I really don't know - for example, could I fulfil the role of a full-stack dev at a web development company? The honest is, I have no idea.

My longer term plan is to have a couple of my apps (one in particular) make my living and me support/add to/sell it, and it does pretty well already, but I need to get a job for visa reasons (I'm a brit, my wife is american, it's much easier for her visa if I have a regular pay cheque, at least for short term). And for the last 4 years I've been working self-employed and describing myself as an IT consultant or a programmer, so I'd hopefully do that long term.

The 'proper' office jobs I've had in my life have just been so effing depressing to me. But I always like learning things, programming, networking, linux, whatever.  So maybe I'd like to be a networking guy or something, but again, I'm probably too old to start at the bottom of that ladder.

Working night shift is good but I think there is a downside on it. It is difficult to sleep 8-10 hours at day time.

Yeah, that's true, but I'll do anything to have peace and quiet as much as possible!