Yeah, no kidding. You and I are not compatible at all. I suspect my sleep schedule would be totally off kilter if I hung around you
Sleep schedule? Try mine.
I start the work week at 11pm Tuesday night and get off at 9am. I stay up after I get off work until about 1 or 2 in the afternoon, eat breakfast and go to bed. Get back up at 8:30 in the evening and get ready to go to work again.
I do that for three nights and get off at 9am Friday and have until 8am Saturday to go back to work for my 4th and final 10 hour day. Since I don’t want to waste Friday by sleeping all day, I force myself to lay down and close my eyes for 1 hour when I get home, just to make a transition from one day to the next. The short nap division between days is really important, I would be a wreck if I just tried to stay up, even though I really don’t sleep.
Then I get up and am now a day shift type person and keep going as far into the day as I can, usually about 8pm and I am done.
I get a good night’s sleep, get up and go to work during the day Saturday, and when I get off Saturday afternoon I’m off until 11pm Tuesday night.
It is not hard for me to stay awake all night at all or to transition back to a day/night sleep schedule. The key for me was learning that I needed to sleep all in one block of time. I first tried coming home and going directly to sleep for a few hours and then trying to take another nap before I went to work that night. Doesn’t work. Once I have had a little sleep, even an hour or 2 I have difficulty going back for a nap.
And I do not drink coffee, I think it tastes like burnt dirt. But I do drink a pop or maybe two during the night. And I actually love this 4 day schedule and enjoy the time off it allows.
I’ve been at my job for 7 years. For the majority of the time I’ve had to be at work by 5 or 6 am. It’s only in the past year that I shifted my schedule so I could be at work any time between 8 and 8:30 am.
You’d think after all that time I’d be hardwired to wake up in the early morning, by 5:30 at the latest. Nope. Every night is a struggle to consciously remember to go to bed by 11, every morning is a struggle to obey the alarm clock, and every Friday night I’m out cold from midnight to 10 am. If I have even just a three-day weekend, by the third day I’m already back to a 2 am - 10 am sleep schedule.
I’d probably be a lot happier if I had an evening job, but I really don’t have any desire to join the job hunters right now.
Lately I have been going to bed at 2:15, settin my alarm for 10:15, and waking up around 10. Yay college!
Nah, that’s the way I do it too, but I’ve only been at this particular schedule for about 2 years.
I just tend to wake up a few minutes before my alarm, regardless of when that is, and if I don’t set it, I don’t wake up. It’s kind of weird, but it seems to work.