Posted on 12/07/2022 2:32:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
I am too. I tell people I'm not one of those senior citizens who goes to bed at 8 p.m, and gets up at the crack of dawn. I'm usually going to bed when retired friends of mine are getting up.
LOL! The convicts were easy. You just locked them up if they misbehaved, but you couldn't do that with the incompetent Lieutenants, Captains or Administrators, especially the political appointees who'd never worked a day in uniform in a prison.
Farmers have critters, and large expanses of land that require or demand time outside of a 9-5 office gig.
Young people have excitement and energy that allows them a hectic life cycle which includes, all too often, self destructive activities that they miraculously spring back from . . . . until they're no longer young people.
What one has to do and the time they have to do it is the deciding factor.
I just got off the 'phone with my son in Florida who is now, and for as long as he and his partner stay awake . . trimming out new houses.
He loves the work and because the houses are empty, they can work whenever and for however long they want. He said it looks like a 2 or 3 AM "day"
I set the alarm for 5:01 am (I always give myself that one extra minute) 30 years ago. That’s the start of my work day.
As a dialysis nurse I function best waking at 2 AM for the 3:30 clinic opening. I found my deepest sleep rhythm had not yet occurred after 4 or 5 hours asleep, yet I awoke easily and functioned very well until the 3 PM closing time. I took great pride in running full steam between 4 am and 9 am, which before were toxic hours for me.
One thing that helped was getting up at 2 AM to drink coffee, take meds, and eat peanut butter. I went back to bed for about 45 minutes which satisfied my lifetime psychological need to “go back to bed”.
Even if I only got 3 or 4 hours of sleep, I still functioned well and was able to make up for it the following evening. Going to bed between 6 PM and 9 PM after those exhausting days is heaven.
Getting up in the 5 am to 7 am timeframe has always been torture. I told my family I would do the entire night shifts as a caregiver as long as someone covered me at sunrise. Something about sunrise induced sleep.
Try a wakeup time WAY off normal, I now seek early morning clinic starts at work.
5 Am to 7 Am was my wife’s golden time to get our sons and her office in line mentally and for the next day.
I prefer to slowly wake up from 7 am to 8 am.
It took about 10 years of retirement for my wife to realize this reality, 7 am to 8 am is really a gift from heaven.
Don’t waste this gift by doing things that can done later in the day.
Even on weekends, 6am is about the latest I will ever sleep.
It all depends on the person. I HATE mornings. Alarm clocks were invented by Satan himself.
Because they keep waking you up to check your dang BP.
“Early bird gets the Worm= but “the second Mouse gets the Cheese”.
Taking blood, changing bags, “How are you doing?”, lights on, all kinds of stuff 24-7.
And they are loud. She said that one night they were bored and pushing each other around having wheeled office chair races around the nurse’s station... And the night shift “cooler talk” is vulgar as hell. They loudly share WAY too much about the institution they work in all night long.
Back when I was a kid ... sleep tight ten hours tonight was a common recommendation. A few years later I was a Marine recruit at Parris Island, SC. Reville was at 5AM ... lights out at 10PM. If your platoon was assigned guard duty you had that sleep pattern interrupted with a two-hour watch. Our DI’s pounced on that sleep deprivation the following day making our already miserable lives even more miserable.
My dad retired from the Army in 1963. My whole life he and my mom were up at 2:30 every morning and in bed by 7 at night. They drank at least a pot of coffee every hour during the day.
I’m up at 4 every morning but only drink to cups of coffee for the day.
I get my family up at 6. Those first 2 hours are my time away from them and any of their problems.
I’m an early morning person and have been my whole life. My brother is an extreme night owl and has been his whole life.
Since my folks were early risers, 2:30 am, dad couldn’t wait to get me up at 4 and I was always ready to go. My brother would be just falling asleep.
+ 1 million billion trillion to your last sentence.
:)
Some workplaces encourage working while unwell. I once called in and told the supervisor I had a fever. “Can’t you take a Tylenol and come in to work?” She asked.
And I worked in a hospital.
I’m up and it’s 1AM where I am.
3 words:
Rotating
Shift
Work
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