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> I live in a region where winter days are very short. I go to work and it's dark, I leave work and it's dark. I have had that experience for years. It can be
by krylon 9y ago
> I live in a region where winter days are very short. I go to work and it's dark, I leave work and it's dark.
I have had that experience for years. It can be quite disheartening to see the sun set while you are on your way home. I do not mind the cold in the winter, but the darkness can literally be depressing.
Last year, after some health issues, my boss surprised me (in a good way), when he offered me to reduce my working hours to 30 hours a week. That went along, of course, with a proportionate cut in my salary, but I was surprised to find it is actually worth it.
I start working at the same time as before, which means I still have to get up at 05:30[1] in the morning, and in winter it is still dark when I arrive at the office. But I get to leave at 14:00 now, and even in the deepest winter, the sun is still up when I get home. I also am less exhausted when I get home, so keeping up with housework is much less of a chore now. I could shift my work time to start later and finish later, but having the afternoon to myself is worth getting up early to me. In summer, it is much easier anyway, because the sun is already rising or up when I get up. And in spring and fall, I get to watch some gorgeous sunrises, which is not a big deal in the greater scheme of things, but amazing nevertheless.
Also, at this point, imagine me ranting about DST, which gives me an hour's worth of jet lag without traveling, twice a year.
- kylec 9y agoI have had that experience for years. It can be quite disheartening to see the sun set while you are on your way home. Try watching the sun set from work, then glancing at the clock and seeing that you won't leave for another hour
- weej 9y agoAt least you see the sun. The pacific northwest is brutal this time of year. I have a massive UV lamp on my work desk. S.A.D.
- balthamael 9y agoNot to brag here but I think brutal is a bit of an overstatement. From what I can tell Seattle gets like 9,5 hours of sunlight now. That's almost two hours more than Stockholm, depending on the day. I have friends living in Luleå and two weeks ago they had less than 5 hours of sun. Now that's brutal. The shitty thing about living in the north isn't the cold, it's the combination of cold and dark, but mostly it's the dark...
- weej 9y agoFair enough. Throw in the rain with lack of UV in Seattle - unless you live in Wales there's not many other places that get this many consecutive days of rain and low to no UV during winter. We're both miserable. Sounds like we should get a beverage or two and bitch about weather together. Cheers.
- collyw 9y agoBiggest disappointment when I moved from grey and rainy Scotland to Spain. The weather in winter is close to summer in Scotland during the day, but by the time I was out of the office it was dark.
- balthamael 9y agoThat doesn't make any sense. The days in Spain are longer in the winter by a wide margin.