Will you be working both shifts? Personally, I always prefer a morning or midnight shift.. it just seems to eat up less of your day. I don’t know of any benefits to an afternoon shift, unless you’re a morning person and love to get stuff done early in the day. Which I am not, so, that’s never really been a “perk” for me. One nice thing about afternoons is that if you get off of work and your friends are doing something late, you can join them.