Accumulate a massive sleep debt, crash when I can’t go anymore. This will repeat until I have a heart attack or aneurysm yelling at yet another day walker that can’t drive for shit. Otherwise, everything is peachy.
This and caffeine
Wife thinks I’m being lazy bc I crash and don’t help with baby on weekend mornings … I call her lazy when she falls asleep after I put the toddler to bed on weekdays.
We have a happy marriage.
I am tired. All the time.
That’s the neat part. I don’t
I assure you, I do not cope at all. That’s why I’m up at night, when the rest of modern society is asleep.
Work 3rd shift, sleep until 5pm, get accused of vampirism.
Hey, uh, is this just a hair or does my mirror have a crack in it?
I should be sleeping right now…
I’ve been trying to adjust my sleep schedule so I go to bead earlier so I can get up at around 9 without being uselessly tired. Haven’t managed yet but I hope to get there slowly.Life is better when everyone else is sleeping.
My consciousness is sustained with a careful balance of caffiene and adrenaline. If I stop drinking coffee and fix my anxiety disorders, I will probably die from the many years of accumulated sleep debt
I am single with no children. Having no reason to switch to a “normal person” schedule on my days off, I simply don’t. Combine that with blackout curtains and I don’t have many problems. Occasionally I need to engage with a business who for some God-awful reason insists on doing work before noon, and those days suck, but otherwise I’m good.
Coffee, work from home, a somewhat flexible schedule that lets me start a little later if I need to, and strategic use of sick time when I get really out of sync.
Unless you were asking about free time. In which case, it helps to know where all the 24-h and open-way-late businesses are, and to have plenty of hobbies to pass the time while everyone else is busy sleeping.
I spend my nights trying to rationalize everything, playing with the toys in my attic. I haven’t seen my marbles in quite a while, I think someone took them.
A job where I work three 12-hour shifts per week, so at least my sleep deprived misery is limited to less than half my days.
Flipping back and forth is probably even worse since you’re altering your sleep time by 12 hours every 3-4 days speaking from experience.
NPR just this morning was highlighting a study that suggests a regular sleep pattern is more important than the amount of sleep you get, (within reason, I think they mentioned 6 hours minimum to complete your sleep cycles.)
Changed my sleep schedule to 6pm-2am. I get to be up at night while making it to morning meetings.
When I was an Uber driver it was great because I could work whatever schedule I felt like working.
I didn’t even need to have a consistent schedule. My natural cycle is based on a Martian day: I stay up about 30 minutes later each night unless there’s something forcing me into a normal Earth schedule.
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