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.
Personally, I've always been partial to Nikola Tesla's alternating current.
Did you not see Mister Edison's demonstration of how dangerous that is? It killed that beast from the dark continent dead! Surely 200 years from now our descendants will laugh at us for ever giving Tesla the time of day for his proposterous schemes.
🎶A great big beautiful tomorrow...🎶
Oh, don’t get me started on my wax cylinders. Those are great for powering through late night sessions.
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.
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.
That's the neat part. I don't
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 am tired. All the time.
It's easy, just sleep for 3-4 hours then wake up and drink coffee and feel terrible every day of your life! Gotta love that 9-5 hustle.
I wish I could say that I did things differently when I have time off, but I still stay up late and get up early(ish).
I can't stop living life to the fullest by staying up late and scrolling/gaming. /s
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.
You don't really choose to be a night owl though, it's mostly genetic
Well I guess I'm lucky that I'm a night owl and an introvert
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.
I work with a lot of Chinese and Indian people, and they often work into the late nights to match the US hours.
I have moved to a place now where my work hours are from about 8pm to 5am as a "9-5 job". I get up in the afternoon like I enjoy. Do anything I want like appointments, errands, sports, leisure, etc. Have "dinner", then start work and work through the night.
The place I moved also tends to be a late people. Early morning is 10am, dinner is 8pm, and the restaurants near me are bustling until 2am, and some are going strong to 5am. Children play in the parks and public spaces at 1am.
This artificial morning people stupidness can be escaped.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Also not insurmountable. My mom used to drag us to the 5:30 (pm) mass growing up, I'm sure there are other churches that do something similar.
There's probably even a Zoom service for that so you can worship whenever you want. Maybe find a church in Hawaii that has a livestream?
Oh heck yeah, I do the zoom so at least I don't have to get up earlier and drive there. They keep giving me grief for it, though.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
Live in the middle of nowhere with a fully remote job, groceries delivered, mostly just leave to do things I wanna do.
What job do you have if you don't mind me asking
Data analyst but I was a sysadmin for almost 15 years.
Endless screaming. Just... endless.
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 miss the late shift so much
I work remotely for a company that is 3 hours behind.
Benadryl/diphenhydramine
Anticholinergics are really bad for your brain long term. I've started taking an herbal supplement called apigenin, which is derived from chamomile flowers that works surprisingly well. And I say that as a fellow night owl chronic insomniac.
As someone else pointed out. Thats not a good habit to be in. Its bad for your brain long term. If you do have allergies, switch to newer generation antihistamines.
Don't forget about doxylamine!
Doxylamine is actually better than diphenhydramine. It has less anticholinergic side effects.
Life is better when everyone else is sleeping.
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.Sleep less. Drink coffee.
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.
You don't want to live in the US and work for non-US salaries... trust me.
Yeah. I've heard as much. Looks like I'm gonna have to change my sleep schedule sooner than later, and hate my life.
I live in central Europe and work remotely with US team. Most people locally work from 7-8, I start work at 10.
10 years ago I'd be awake from 12 till 3 in the morning, it took me a few years to migrate towards 10 till 1. I still do oversleep on weekends, though.
Changed my sleep schedule to 6pm-2am. I get to be up at night while making it to morning meetings.
I am remote and run my department (it's just me). There are some customer facing things but I have clients in all different timezones so it actually works out well. I typically clock on at 10am, take a long lunch, and often do a few more hours in the evening if clients need me.
By not participating in it, mostly.
