Ask Lemmy

My home is equipped with Thomas Edison‘s electric lamps. I can write with my quill all hours of the night without getting any soot on my walls.

Poorly.

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.

That's the neat part. I don't

Work 3rd shift, sleep until 5pm, get accused of vampirism.

I am tired. All the time.

I don't, that's why I chose to be a night owl. Society happens during the day and I want no part of it.

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.

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.

Move to a place where your body clock hours align with the hours of your remote employment. Move to a place where the society is later at night. Be a star performer so that the managers don't care that you show up after "lunch" because you lock the building when you're done and get all your work done.

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

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.

Cry

Usually with Monster "Ultra Paradise" for breakfast and/or lunch.

My heart will pop sooner or later, but that's about as close as I can get to a realistic retirement plan anyway, so fuck it.

There's a reason I moderate [email protected] and other related communities.

The thing I hated the most about covid was how businesses reduced hours. It was stupid when it happened because it meant people were more likely to come in contact during the fewer hours the stores were still open. It was stupid in hindsight because the stated reason was so they could be closed to sanitize when a) covid doesn't last that long on surfaces anyways, and b) it's airborne and wasn't really transmitted on surfaces in most cases.

In the end, it's just harder to function as someone who often starts their "morning routine" in the afternoon. Especially being in a location where for some reason everything closes like mid-afternoon Sundays.

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.

I'm retired and I can finally follow my body's clock. Bed at 3:00 am, get up around noon.

The only obligation I can't readily schedule to my liking is worship service on Sunday.

I don't.

Surprisingly well. The biggest problem is grocery shopping as the shops close somewhere between 18:00 and 20:00. They open up mostly between 7:00 and 9:00, so this is a bit rough.

Appointments for physiotherapist and doctors are unpleasant as well. But i tend to take the earliest appointment possible which has the benefit of no waiting time.

Live in the middle of nowhere with a fully remote job, groceries delivered, mostly just leave to do things I wanna do.

Long Covid has me isolated from society at large anyways. I am not even exactly a night owl. It just so happens that my sleeping habits have become completely removed from mortal something somethings (insert your own intellectually sounding word, my brain is borked). I fall asleep when I'm tired and I wake up when I'm done sleeping.

At the moment that amounts to starting my sleep at about 4 or 5 am. But that is always subject to change. I just can't force my sleeping cycle anymore, the health impact is too large.

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.

Endless screaming. Just... endless.

Benadryl/diphenhydramine

Wdym? I just always work late shifts and meet other weird night people at the handful of businesses still open when I get off work.

I work remotely for a company that is 3 hours behind.

I worked as a Night Auditor for 3 years where I taught myself web development and landed my first tech job at a startup. Luckily the meetings were late afternoon which is a little after I wake up.

I'd take care of ghe code during the night/morning, review it before the meeting, meet, rinse and repeat.

Fortunately/unfortunately depending on how you look at it, the startup got to MVP, but also ran out of money. Now I'll be looking for work again, but my sleep schedule is still vampire time.

I'm considering looking for remote work on the other side of the pond. I'm in the US. Other than that I guess I have to go through the extremely painful process of changing my sleep habits.