Affiliate sleep hours
- Thread starter Yep!Jamie
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Ever since grad school, when I had evening classes and was first able to pull this schedule off, I would be lucky to be able to fall asleep before 3-4AM and I'd usually be up around noon.
I did this for years, and would usually shift it even later in the summer if I could because it gets so damn hot around here during the day, until another one of my ventures opened up a brick and mortar location and now I have to be in the office every day; luckily, I don't have to be here until 10~11AM, so I can at least sleep until 9AM, but it's been a rough transition.
In some ways I feel more productive on this new schedule - it's a lot easier to get in touch with traditional businesses and traditional business people, but it's killed my creativity - there are days when I do busy work until lunch and then screw around here on WF or gaming for an hour or two after lunch because I just can't get my mind working well enough to do anything creative until mid-afternoon.
A lot of you may have what one doctor thinks I have - delayed sleep phase syndrome. Basically, your body clock runs on its own schedule, not the schedule the majority of people have. You feel like your mind is racing and you can't go to sleep when you get in bed before 2-4AM because your body thinks that the late night hours are the middle of the day.
I did this for years, and would usually shift it even later in the summer if I could because it gets so damn hot around here during the day, until another one of my ventures opened up a brick and mortar location and now I have to be in the office every day; luckily, I don't have to be here until 10~11AM, so I can at least sleep until 9AM, but it's been a rough transition.
In some ways I feel more productive on this new schedule - it's a lot easier to get in touch with traditional businesses and traditional business people, but it's killed my creativity - there are days when I do busy work until lunch and then screw around here on WF or gaming for an hour or two after lunch because I just can't get my mind working well enough to do anything creative until mid-afternoon.
A lot of you may have what one doctor thinks I have - delayed sleep phase syndrome. Basically, your body clock runs on its own schedule, not the schedule the majority of people have. You feel like your mind is racing and you can't go to sleep when you get in bed before 2-4AM because your body thinks that the late night hours are the middle of the day.
This is also usually my schedule. It doesn't matter how early I wake up because I always do my best work from midnight on. Not really sure why, maybe because there's no distractions.
Back in the college days it was bedtime around 4am and morning around 1pm. 
Now I got a kids and a family so it's more like midnight - 6:30-ish
Now I got a kids and a family so it's more like midnight - 6:30-ish
Depends on the time zone I am in.
If I could find a way to never sleep I would, but generally bed by 2am and up at 7am, maybe a little longer in bed on Sunday. But this is a 7 day a week gig with occasional time off as and when.
You can't run it by the clock. I remember when Jon announced the Facebook lifting of the crazy stuff and didn't go to bed for what seemed like weeks. Snooze = Lose
If I could find a way to never sleep I would, but generally bed by 2am and up at 7am, maybe a little longer in bed on Sunday. But this is a 7 day a week gig with occasional time off as and when.
You can't run it by the clock. I remember when Jon announced the Facebook lifting of the crazy stuff and didn't go to bed for what seemed like weeks. Snooze = Lose
Over the summer I work a 26 hour day. I wake up and stay awake for 16 hours, and then I go to sleep for 10 hours. So when I'm awake/sleep rotates.
Otherwise it's sleep at 4AM, wake up at 2PM.
Otherwise it's sleep at 4AM, wake up at 2PM.
Have a loud 2 year old who wakes up the entire house with her at 6-7am every day.
Ever wake up to Blues Clues blasting on your tv? If that isnt torture I don't know what is. Gets my ass up out of bed and working though!
Ever wake up to Blues Clues blasting on your tv? If that isnt torture I don't know what is. Gets my ass up out of bed and working though!
This is BAD for you Ruck, get yourself into a proper sleep pattern.
My sleep times vary a lot, but what's important is making teh monies.
(So basically I sleep and wake when I wanna, is this not one of the benefits of working for thyself?)
/cry
Try meditation or something bro. That's going to put you in an early grave. Not to sound like too big a suck-up or anything, but that pic you posted in front of your house with the dodges is my wallpaper and keeps me working an extra hour or two, but seriously, you gotta find time to let your brain shut down or your body will do it for you, in a big way. A million a year won't help your daughter sleep when she graduates high school and puts a rose on your grave.
Me: in bed by 10 up by 7, even if I don't want to. And no, I don't have a million dollar house or $50k cars, but I haven't had a second heart attack either.
When I first started doing heavy volume I slept rarely... maybe 2-3 hours a nite, and when I did I had an iPhone in bed and a monitor pointing at my bed so I could watch things. Now, I find it's easier to try to get to sleep at a decent hour (before 2am) and wake up early. The shit you do after 2:00am in the morning is normally not quality work.