I’m with you. I am very much a night owl. I do my best work between noon and 9pm. Fortunately, my work can be done any time of day. In fact, projects I manage a

I’m with you. I am very much a night owl. I do my best work between noon and 9pm. Fortunately, my work can be done any time of day. In fact, projects I manage are “jobs in addition to” for most team members. Which means they work on my stuff later in the day, after their day jobs. I’ll start getting notifications of task completion early afternoon, continuing into the night. I have to process each task, accepting or rejecting them by morning, to keep forward momentum through the next day. Lots of harmony between my internal clock and the work I do. There’s just one problem: most companies require me to be in the office from 8am to 5pm every weekday. The constant clash of “my job” (the rigid traditional workday), and “my work” (highly-structured, but very fluid schedules), causes a whole lot of unnecessary stress and unproductive office time. I end up working unsustainably long work-weeks, all due to optics (read: office politics). It’s all very strange to me. My current solution is to work as an independent contractor, and be my own boss. But this solution comes with a whole other set of (very difficult) problems. It’s frustrating to never fit into the structure of a company, considering I like my work, I’m good at it, and it fits into my internal clock.