More than when I worked retail. If I looked at when I used to do customer-facing work. I could get by on four hours a night. Show up with blood shot eyes and b

More than when I worked retail. If I looked at when I used to do customer-facing work. I could get by on four hours a night. Show up with blood shot eyes and bumble through the day without any fear of messing up. Since my development career has taken off I can't go less than 9 hours of sleep. It seriously impacts my work performance to not have a full night's rest and I will even stop work and go home for a nap (or hit the gym, seems like a 50/50 which will work to pep up the energy) if I start feeling my internal engines roaring down. I have done some late night commits. I do wake up in the middle of the night with a burning idea. I occassionally stay up to work on a personal project but I can only afford to do that maybe once or twice a month. I do sometimes miss the days of menial service industry work where I could just stay up and binge-watch a show on Netflix, read a novel cover-to-cover, or code through the night on a personal project knowing that being exhausted at work wouldn't ding me on the next review.