Anyone else get their best coding done between the hours of 10pm to 6am when we’re finally enjoying peace?
During grad school, I analyzed my dissertation data in the restricted access room late at night while binging Star Trek TNG and Voyager on my laptop. I’d then go to my 7am meetings with my early bird boomer advisor for my RA job and immediately crash once I got home.
I can’t code within hours. Once I’m thinking about it, it just bounces around in there until I figure it out. So I appear to slack off a lot, but I’m thinking about it very often even outside work.
They never heard of chronotypes.
Or night shift.
Newborn baby, so all 3 times.
You’re in it for a while. My oldest is a night owl somehow but my youngest is hitting 2 and wakes me up at all 3 times (I think he gets up at 5 but only wakes me when hungry, like a cat).
I don’t think it’ll get better until they’re out of the house.
My 3 year old wakes up screaming at exactly 1 am every night. Not crying or yelling, full screaming like he saw a ghost. It usually wakes up my 6 month old and then we’re all doomed.
I started staying up and waiting by his door so I can run right in. He’s always fine and just goes “oh hi daddy do you want to sing me a song?”
You have my sympathies
Week days: 0700-0730ish. Gotta get my kids ready for school.
Weekend: At the crack of noonHow does your body even let you sleep that late on weekends?
Im similar. But this is just how i have always been. I sleep when im tired, so i dont have a real sleep schedule. Weekdays im up at 530. Some nights im in bed by 9, others 12 or later. I never have a problem falling asleep because i simply just got to bed when im tired. So on the weekend, i sleep until im completely rested. Some days its 730, other days its 10 or later.
My best rest/most productive time of my life was the semester i was working senior project with folks who wanted to meet before their full day of work, and I had night classes. I had no problem transitioning to sleeping 4hours, twice a day. About 2-6 on both sides. I wish i could do that again
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3pm, for a 5pm-6am workday. The type of person who would present this question unironically would probably still consider me useless though.
What do you do, out of interest? It sounds like you only get a couple of hours to yourself a day…
Not who you asked but: it’s possible to do night time readiness jobs where you basically sleep (lightly) on premises (not all of those 13h of course) and are there when needed. Usually you’d do that for a week, then have a week off or something like that.
Security, and I would kill for a couple of hours to myself each day. By the time I get home, I have about half an hour to get to sleep if I want a full 8h down before the next shift. I work 2-3 nights, then get 2-3 off, so it averages out to 7 shifts a fortnight which isn’t so bad.
I recently got away from a 7p-7a, and rationalizations aside, it is so bad. Maybe the day shifters are ok with it, but they don’t have to wildly swing their sleep schedule every couple days just to get some time to do something other than work or sleep.
I’ll take longer shifts with 7 days off per fortnight over normal ones with only weekends off any day. I rarely change my sleep schedule, I just stay nocturnal most of the time. I pop to the shops on my break most shifts to grab a backpack load of groceries, then there’s a 24h one near my apartment if I need anything that can’t wait on nights off. I spend my “mornings” with my girlfriend until she goes to bed around lunchtime, then I have the rest of my time to myself. It works for me, and has been for the last 8 years 🤷♂️
5pm. But you know what? I go to bed way earlier than all those fuckers.
Somehow I feel both seen and attacked.
Seems to be a good number of my posts
Honestly it is quite impressive
What can I say. I’m annoying
4am. My first meeting is at 6am everyday.
Yep, my alarm is set for 3:30 tomorrow, I’m already in bed :'(
I used to work a full time job mostly in the evenings and on weekends (stage technician). I went shopping during the daytime. I got berated by a shopkeeper for being precisely that last option.
As someone who worked nights for a long time, there is a crazy amount of people who don’t have the mental capacity to conceive that a different work/sleep schedule is possible. The number of people who, upon finding out I worked 11pm to 7am, genuinely assumed that I still woke up at “normal” time in the morning, and just sat around watching TV all day until it was time to go to work again was pretty astonishing.
Well, it’s after 5am and I’m awake.
But I don’t think that’s what they meani’d have to sleep first
When I am king, the morning people will be first against the wall.
Night shift? Pffft. Give me my 3 AM baguette, you useless member of society you. WOA, HEY!! DON’T THROW IT AT ME! Do you know who my father is?!?
