Work after 4hours or less sleep

LoveLamps · 31-07-2014 6:48pm #1

Have any of you done it? Do any of you do it regularly?
Im quite tired right now and could go for a nap, but instead im heading out and wont be home till about 1.30/2. I have work at 7 so need to leave about 6.30 so up about 6...
My game plan is - Ive made the lunch, so just up, shower and go. I'll have a berocca boost (although i dont think they work..) and buy a bottle of lucozade in the vending machine before work. Then chewing gum all day to help keep me awake (hard to fall asleep while chewing?)
Anything I should do?? - besides not go out!!!

How do you do it? Any tactics or war stories?

Ive often played a match after a night out but to work 9 hours on my feet all day will surely be a lot more difficult!

The Backwards Man · 31-07-2014 6:50pm

Ah, the innocence of youth.

Penny Tration · 31-07-2014 6:51pm

I fairly regularly do 9 hour shifts on my feet (20 min break), after 2-3 hours of sleep.

I don't know how I get through it. Lots of coffee, and use the Internet a lot to keep me awake. Luckily, I work alone, so don't generally have people checking on me.

I'm just about to finish up a 10 hour shift, after 3 hours of sleep.

Frosty McSnowballs · 31-07-2014 6:52pm

4 hours is grand, sure 2 is even grand.

dmc17 · 31-07-2014 6:53pm

Sure you may as well have a shower and eat the breakfast before you go out

El Guapo! · 31-07-2014 6:53pm

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

4 hours is grand, sure 2 is even grand.

Just keep blinking really fast and it's the same as sleeping shur.

Sir Arthur Daley · 31-07-2014 6:54pm

Take a viagra no need for sleep.

JoseJones · 31-07-2014 6:54pm

I work 6am-6pm shifts regularly and on my first day back after a few days off I usually only have around 2 hours sleep. It's not as bad as you think if you're kept busy, but after work you'll only be fit for bed!

I have done it once with no sleep at all and that actually wasn't too bad either. I wouldn't make a habit of it though!

Hotfail.com · 31-07-2014 6:55pm

Long time no see Lovelamps

The Backwards Man · 31-07-2014 6:56pm

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Take a viagra no need for sleep.

Or Milk of Magnesia, keeps you up all night too.

darkpagandeath · 31-07-2014 6:57pm

Is that not what most Doctors and Nurses get in hospitals run by the HSE. :pac:

NSAman · 31-07-2014 6:59pm

Meh, 4 hours sleep is plenty. I normally start work at 6am and work till 9pm with a break of 30 minutes for lunch. Have dinner around 10pm and watch a little tv, sleep around 1.30-2am... 5 days a week, sure you can catch up at the weekends.

Sir Arthur Daley · 31-07-2014 6:59pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Or Milk of Magnesia, keeps you up all night too.

The same way 24 pints of porter does

Shanotheslayer · 31-07-2014 7:01pm

I usually get 4-5 hours sleep a night. Up for work then sometimes Gym/Training that night. Usually try get an 1 hour or 2 hour nap in tho.

SouthTippBass · 31-07-2014 7:01pm

Coffee,
Nap on the toilet if you need it,
Sleep in the car on your break.

Easy.

Nib · 31-07-2014 7:01pm

Plenty of time to sleep when you're dead.

Sugar Free · 31-07-2014 7:02pm

I do it semi-regularly due to a job that requires more than 40 hours a week and part-time university. Gets more difficult the older you get and the more challenging your role becomes but still doable.

chipsahoy · 31-07-2014 7:21pm

when I was doing bar work I used to finish about 5 a.m then go home sleep until seven and get up with the little one. Then back at five to start all over again, that went on for about six months while her mother was in college.

Knex* · 31-07-2014 7:34pm

I rarely sleep more than 5 anyway. 4 is grand, although a few too many nights of that little sleep will catch up on you.

But as a once off? Shouldn't even remotely be an issue.

Tail Docker · 31-07-2014 7:39pm

I seldom get more than 4 hours sleep at work. I just make sure to get the other 6 hours in at home.

smurfjed · 31-07-2014 7:41pm

I normally start work at 6am and work till 9pm with a break of 30 minutes for lunch

What do you do?

Tail Docker · 31-07-2014 7:43pm

smurfjed wrote: »

What do you do?

Good question - it can be added to the "Jobs to avoid" list for careers guidance teachers.

NSAman · 31-07-2014 7:44pm

smurfjed wrote: »

What do you do?

Self Employed..;)

ceadaoin. · 31-07-2014 7:53pm

If you plan on getting drunk then working that early after 4 hours sleep will be tough. If you're just tired and not hungover it's perfectly manageable, a few cups of coffee and a red lucozade or can of coke will get you through.

TeddyTedson · 01-08-2014 1:26am

I've plenty of experience of this due to drinking and going out when I was a bit younger and now just not being able to sleep.
I'd often go into work still a little drunk and to be honest those days were fine for me. It's just that your day is over once you finally get home, at least in my experience.

As for the whole insomnia thing, most weeks I'd have one day in work without any sleep from the night before, zero. I'd never get tired until about 15 minutes until my alarm was about to go off, that's when I'd start to yawn.
Those days are the worst. You arrive into work and feel cold and your brain just doesn't fell right, a slight headache perhaps. Everything is a struggle, even small talk, never mind actually doing any work. Often driving in I'd be feeling like crap, probably part of the reason why I didn't sleep in the first place but I'd begin to think about just turning around and disappearing one way or another.
Grim to put it mildly.

whirlpool · 01-08-2014 1:32am

chipsahoy wrote: »

when I was doing bar work I used to finish about 5 a.m then go home sleep until seven and get up with the little one. Then back at five to start all over again, that went on for about six months while her mother was in college.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 01-08-2014 1:41am

Used to do it most Sundays and most bank holiday Mondays.

May bank holiday, my best friends 21st was on the whole weekend. Work wouldn't let me have it off even though I booked it. I'm not sure what time I got to bed at, but I blew the arse out of that night.

Drinking from early cause I was "going home" early. Pre drinks, pub drinks, shots, nightclub, house party at the birthday girls, people doing coke off the kitchen table, left and went back to my house, (which is a hub of entertainment at the weekend). My housemate was in bed with a stray he brought home, me and my friend jumped in on top of the both of them in the bed, got him up for drinking games. It was about 5:30 when I was broadcast on snapchat tryin to rap eminems "monster" under a tree in the back garden.

I was in work for 11am.

I felt strangely well when I was getting up for work, grand when I got there. About 4pm I was lying on the bathroom floor vomitting up what tasted like strong vodka.
Pure shook was not the word. Good night though!

Macavity. · 01-08-2014 1:53am

Would go to college regularly having got 2 or 3 hours sleep or sometimes having no sleep at all. I would avoid it if possible, but I just can't get to sleep.

Aidric · 01-08-2014 1:58am

Macavity. wrote: »

Would go to college regularly having got 2 or 3 hours sleep or sometimes having no sleep at all. I would avoid it if possible, but I just can't get to sleep.

Speed?

I've done it once or twice, going straight to work with no sleep and immediately regretted it. You could pull it off if you're calendar is free but doing it when facing in to a day of meetings/presentations and you're going to wish you were dead.

Supergurrier · 01-08-2014 2:36am

Once i get one sleep cycle 2-3h I can function fine (1st 5 minutes you feel like **** though sitting on edge of bed)

2 is ideal 5-6h

Jesus Wept · 01-08-2014 2:47am

A berocca boost? That'll do a lot.
You'd be better off having a cup of tea.

Sir Arthur Daley · 01-08-2014 2:51am

All berocca boost is good for is to discolour your urine.

McDermotX · 01-08-2014 2:57am

Regularly do it across a shift structure.....been at it now for close to 15 years.
Having said that, back in my youth, doing it with drink was tough going, never mind the fact that 4hrs would be very good going. Getting in between 0230-0300 and up at 0530 before hopping on a pushbike for a nice 8mile trip happened far too often.

Lou.m · 01-08-2014 3:00am

LoveLamps wrote: »

Have any of you done it? Do any of you do it regularly?
Im quite tired right now and could go for a nap, but instead im heading out and wont be home till about 1.30/2. I have work at 7 so need to leave about 6.30 so up about 6...
My game plan is - Ive made the lunch, so just up, shower and go. I'll have a berocca boost (although i dont think they work..) and buy a bottle of lucozade in the vending machine before work. Then chewing gum all day to help keep me awake (hard to fall asleep while chewing?)
Anything I should do?? - besides not go out!!!

How do you do it? Any tactics or war stories?

Ive often played a match after a night out but to work 9 hours on my feet all day will surely be a lot more difficult!

Yes caffeine caffeine caffeine!

The_Captain · 01-08-2014 1:01pm

Meh, my standard sleep would be 5 hours. I'm a demon in the morning admittedly, but I'm not physically capable of sleeping for more than 6 hours anyway

Holsten · 01-08-2014 1:24pm

This is me today.

Like a zombie, not recommended.

wandatowell · 01-08-2014 1:27pm

Christ I feel shattered after any amount of hours. I feel just as ****ty after 8hrs as I do if I've only 4.

Should go to a doc really.

Work after 4hours or less sleep

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