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I seem to be stuck in night mode. I managed (by dint of going with 5-6 hours sleep for a week) to get to bed at 9:00 pm one day and wake at 10:00 am the next morning. That lasted one day. I was up until 5:00 am that night, and slept in until 3:00 pm. Since then the earliest I've managed to get up is 5:00 pm. Today it wasn't until 6:00. Blah. And my back is <i>still</i> aching. Double Blah.

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From:

amberbutterfly7.livejournal.com

Basically speaking, do you agree that we each have our own internal clock thing going on?
And, if so, do you agree that there should be a wider range of "night jobs"?

:>)

From:

swestrup

I'm lucky in that for most of the last 20 years I've been working for small companies which were willing to go with flex time. I've often worked on a 28 hour day, where I only had 4 work days of 10 hours each. Monday I would get to work at 3:00 am and leave by 1:00 pm, and by Thursday I would get in at noon and leave by 10:00pm. Friday would get me up at somewhere between 4 and 6 in the afternoon and I would be free to go to dinner or parties with friends. I would be up all saturday night when everyone else was asleep, and could work on personal projects, and then, because I wasn't due in to work till 3:00 am on mondays, and I would fall asleep around noon on sunday, my monday routine was too stay in bed as long as I could, and when I just couldn't sleep anymore, get up, have a leisurely breakfast and take a night bus into work. It suited my schedule, and it had the advantage that two days of the week I would beat the boss into work. Somehow that always impresses them, even if you show up after them on other days.

These days, I don't think I'm quite as flexible in my sleep habits, but I do prefer to work from home where I get to decide my own hours.