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I'm a nihgt owl with kids. I've been living on the 1am to 6:30 express(o) train for the last 5 years, holding down a job too. It can be done, but you have to
by chris_dcosta 15y ago
I'm a nihgt owl with kids.
I've been living on the 1am to 6:30 express(o) train for the last 5 years, holding down a job too.
It can be done, but you have to let yourself give-in sometimes.
I hit a wall every three months or so and have one day where I crash at about 7:30 pm sleeping the whole night through. That's enough to recharge my batteries.
Did I mention I'm no spring chicken either...
- notyourwork 15y agoI can say from watching my father do this while I grew up that this is extremely unhealthy on the body. Sure you can do it, sure you can recharge every few many months but this will not work out in the long run. By that I mean accidents are looming when you live with this little sleep regularly. Trust me on this before its too late to say I wish I would have slept more.
- planetmcd 15y agoThere is strong evidence that links sleep deprivation over time, even minor, to long term health problems. As someone who cut sleep for years (6 hours was normal in twenties and much of thirties), I can attest that at some point, it becomes difficult to operate on less sleep. If all of your coping strategies involve putting in more time (essentially at the expense of sleep), when you can no longer cut the sleep, you may be in a bind when that is no longer the corner that can be cut. Though not always, that point in time often coincides with when your parental commitments are at their peek as well, and as a parent, you probably shouldn't cut that corner. So what then... Something like the Pomodoro method helped me alot. Or just be really rich.