Nocturnal Vs Work

DreamShadow

I wanted to start a thread to find out how everyone fits work around their Noc lifestyle. I started my working life as a chef which wasn't too bad cos the start was around 11 or 12 o'clock...not ideal but doable and within some sort of reason!

After that I spent a year or so in the motor trade, doing bodywork repairs,spraying and valeting. Had to get up at 7am and if I remember correctly the earliest I managed too get to sleep during that time was about 2 to 3.30. managed it for a year by napping during the day.

I now run my own design and printing company which gives me a lot more leeway (my customers don't care that I'm printing their products at 4am) but I still struggle to get up and find the time to meet with clients/suppliers/banks etc before they all close.

I started the thread cos I'm interested to find out the type of work people do and the lengths they have to go to to keep up their committment too it.

Doctor DooM

I work in IT and depending on many factors I can get stuck on three- four weeks shift work. It's how I started posting on boards and I believe it contributed to the creation of this forum


Right now I am working alot of day time hours though. I think I am getting old, I just can't stay up late anymore when I am working early... Although I do make sure to log in and check most nights before I drift off to never never land.

Crumble Froo

right now, i generally work 3-5 days a week, the last two days depending both on whether i can be arsed working or not, and whether there actually is work for me.

so im pretty free most days to not bother going to bed early. also, my boss is just generally awesome, and doesnt mind when i come in yawning my head off. which is saying something, cos we share a very small office.

Delirium

Work as programmer 9-5.30, Mon-Fri. So, during the week the latest I'd be up would be midnight. If I don't have work the next day, it's obviously much easier to stay up as late as I like.

Shiminay

Well the people I currently work for and with are all bastards This job is 9 to 5 though, with an option to delve in if I'm online and see something wrong and fix it.

I used to be a night manager in a hotel, so that was grand That was on 2 occasions actually, one in Mayo and several in Dublin (within the same group). Was mostly quiet so I could be dicking about online. It was one of the reasons I gave the nod to getting this board created. In a full year of full time night work, my body clock never really adjusted to it. I'm personally of the opinion that my internal clock is set for 36 hour days, not 24

Teutorix

School gets me, during the week i am up at 7 so its kind of hard to get around in the noc during the week

RandolphEsq

College allows me to sleep in in the mornings and not have to worry about going to sleep early.
Working in a bar at weekends causes me not to be home until 1/2/3 so I need some unwinding time

Doctor DooM

I miss my nocturnal college days.

not only could I stay up as late as I really wanted, TV used to take on a whole different late night personality back then. Especially channel 4. There was a period where the late night programs where interlinked by a running cartoon where biggy, cobain et al were linving in hiding in a house in the middle of no where. Another awesome one set in a dystopian future.

Television itself was different at night too. There was loads of anime and cult movies you just don't see full stop anymore.

The hey day of nocturnal tv has long passed because of the digital era, mores the pity.

tribulus

DreamShadow wrote: »

I wanted to start a thread to find out how everyone fits work around their Noc lifestyle.

I no longer have one :mad:

I get up at 6am to get to work for 8am (I work in a lab) and don't get home until after 6. So between playing sport, other leisure activities, occasionally seeing my girlfriend, even less occassionally seeing my friends I have pretty much no time to stay up late.

SmileyPaul

I have school so Im up at half 7 every morning, I still dont sleep til about 3 every night though, just cant

Im the same on weekends with the only difference being I'll stay in bed til about half 10 or 11
its a waste of a day otherwise

Doctor DooM

That said, tonight is going to be a long one. I can feel it in my water.

cyberwolf77

I actually became nocturnal because of my job. I work overnights at a donut and coffee *Waits for screams of "DONUTS" to fade* shop. After nine years plus I just adjusted to being up all night and sleeping most of the day. Even on my nights off I don't get to sleep much before six in the morning.

Rozabeez

I don't really have a schedule, although since this year in college started I've stopped all nighters out in the pub midweek

My shifts in work are generally 6-10 or 6-11 on Thursday and Friday evenings, after a 9am or 10am start in college, so I've lost most of my nocturnalness on weekends due to needing sleep, weekends can range from 9-5 to 6-10 in work, so its a bit dodgy. Tuesday and Sunday evenings are my late nights.

Doctor DooM

I suspect we'll see an influx of nocturnalitude this summer... did last summer, too.

SmileyPaul

I can't wait for summer
I can see myself just sitting up into the not so wee hours in the morning.... its gonna be great

jonnybadd

Like some it seems my work has influenced my nocturnal life, work 12 hour shift days four-on-four-off alternating between nights and days so four 12 out of every 16 days I would be most definitly a night person.

Foxhound38

My job involves a lot of independent research so I can usually go by my own clock.

Elliemental

I Work 9 - 5.30, so just a regular day job. But, i'm a natural insomniac, i just don't need much sleep. If i do get tired though, it's usually in the middle of the afternoon. That can be awkward when i'm trying to fix customer's broadband connection!

Galvasean

It sucks having to be in work for 8 when your body wants to stay up til 4.