Willing to get your hands dirty, wrecking your health, and never having time to socialize because you sleep when others are awake. Nightshift work is associated with all kinds of health problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_working#Health_effects

In a previous life I earned good money doing re-modelling in banks and office buildings. Because these businesses needed to stay open with minimal disruption, a lot of work was done at night and weekends.

I never got used to switching from day to night and days off were spent mostly sleeping.

Eventually it came to an end, after about 8 years, and I returned to the land of the living, working 9-5. The adjustment was difficult and the drop in income wasn't much fun either.

I ended up changing jobs every few weeks because there was always some reason to leave and eventually I just stopped working altogether. I didn't know it the time but I was drifting into a severe depression that lasted several years and ended with me living on the street.

I can't say for sure that working nights for so long set me on that road but I have a strong suspicion that it was a major factor.

I got lucky after a short while, got back into work and it's all just a bad memory now. I do wonder where I'd be now though if I'd just stuck to working days, like most people do?

Mowing lawns; repairing sidewalks; testing car emissions. Many public-mandated jobs can be done during the day.