A bucket of cold water

[Cat]

Bleh! I am like this too. I haven’t had a job for about two months now. When I have a job and a routine, I’m OK. I don’t love getting up early, but I can do it. But when I don’t have a job, I start staying up later and later, and sleeping later and later. Lately I’ve been going to sleep around 3 and getting up around 11. Now, that sounds like I’m sleeping super late, but since I go to bed so late, it’s still 8 hours of sleep. But even when I go to bed earlier, say at 1 or 2, I still can’t seem to make myself get up earlier than 11. I HATE it. I hate sleeping half the day.

I can’t sleep at this time even if I try. If I go to bed at 3:00 a.m., I will still wake up at around 4:30 or 5:00 a.m.

I think that people who can sleep hours like 3:00 a.m. till 11:00 a.m. ought to seriously consider the possibility that they would be happiest working a 2nd or 3rd shift. Depending on what your career options are, knowing that you would be good at 2nd or 3rd shift might help you to land a job.

We have people working in the lab who have done these shifts for decades, and they love the hours and are not tired at all.

 

[dixieagle]

I have thanked God all my married life that my husband’s job (TV news anchor in the evenings) has not required him, generally speaking, to get up early. The thought of having to set an alarm and be alert and ready for the day by 7 am or so makes me want to cry.

When my girls were in school, I was up early (6 am) with them while dh got his beauty sleep because he had to be perky until 10 or 11 pm at night; I could have happily strangled him. For the last 10 years, we’ve gotten to bed about midnight and slept until 8-9 most days. Even when I was working, I started about 1 pm. Morning people we are NOT.

I am currently caring for my 20 month old grandson part of each day (mid-day, thankfully) but will have him M-F from about 6:45 - 7 am for about 8 months beginning next summer when my daughter does her audiology externship. I cannot begin to imagine what that will be like. Maybe I can bribe him to go back to bed!

 

[anp1215]

I can’t sleep at this time even if I try. If I go to bed at 3:00 a.m., I will still wake up at around 4:30 or 5:00 a.m.

I think that people who can sleep hours like 3:00 a.m. till 11:00 a.m. ought to seriously consider the possibility that they would be happiest working a 2nd or 3rd shift. Depending on what your career options are, knowing that you would be good at 2nd or 3rd shift might help you to land a job.

We have people working in the lab who have done these shifts for decades, and they love the hours and are not tired at all.

My degree is in elementary education, so no shift work for me. I am totally fine with waking up early after I get into the routine. I was morning manager at a fast food place for 4ish years, I got there at 6 am, woke up between 4:30-5 am every day. I think I could adapt to any shift.