RE: Sleep is for the weak - or is it?
Right now it is four in the morning, and I am yet to sleep. I'll probably go crash after I finish the translation I am working on, probably in another hour or so. I usually get up around 10-11 am. A lot of times I go to sleep much earlier, but it just goes up and down.
Oh, I've also had some really weird sleeping times. For example around 2004 I had head trauma, and for a couple of years after that it was impossible for me to sleep at night. Sun is up? I can get my sleep. I coped by finding work, where I cold do night shifts.
There was also that one time, when I worked for 5 days straight. That is some 140 or so hours, and I did get about one, maybe one and a half hours of sleep in. I talked about it as a part of Crazy challenge. Also it has a cartoon, you could show them to your daughter. Youtube has more of them from our cartoon studio, that I used to work for back in 2007.
Oh man, that sounds rough. But there's something kind of nice about the idea of sleeping during the day and working at night. At night it's quieter and more peaceful, less traffic on the roads. And I bet night shifts pay more.
I used to stay up until the wee hours of the morning like you on the weekends, but stopped doing it after a while. It was just too hard to do that and then shift back to a more regular sleeping schedule for the work week.
5 days straight sounds insane! I can't imagine how you got through that. Definitely going to check out your link, thanks for sharing.
Nope, same thing as day shifts. And they are much more hectic, if your clients are all in America. But this is probably something that I should devote a whole post to. You know. A night shift. On New Years eve (in Russia that is essencially the big celebration instead of Christmass). As a trch support in an online casino, that just went live. And right after midnight the post opening promotion starts. That was fun. The phone starts buzzing like crazy once you place the receiver down the hook. And I think we had about a hundred emails per minute. Dunno, I remember that it took others about a week to answer them all. But for me it was ok. I did that one shift that noone wanted, but I'd have the rest of the holidays for myself. :-D
Man that's intense! You should do a post on it, sounds like a great story waiting to be told. I do tech support myself for internal business users, so I can sympathize with how crazy it can get during busy times. And New Year's Eve is a heck of a time to be going live with a new venture.