Originally Posted by
stevenash
5 hours sleep, that's the norm for me.
Welcome to my world.
I spent my whole adult professional life working graveyard in IT
When you work five nights a week, every week for pretty much three decades from 11pm to 7am your sleep cycle is a mess.
Couple that with the fact if one is glued to multiple computer terminals for most of those working hours that too is not conducive to good sleep habits.
I have three doctors, a GP who's fantastic.
She runs point so to speak.
She makes sure my BP stays normal, she makes sure my heart is fine, cholesterol, weight, all those things a good professional GP should do. I gained ten pounds over the Dec/Jan holiday season and as a result blood sugar and cholrseral levels became elevated.
I knew this too, but I need her to tell me what to do about it, how to do it.
She lays the smack down but in a mild, professional matter.
The other doctors are the hip/back specialist because well, I have a very bad hip.
Lastly, to make my point which only I can do in a long winded fashion that nobody can do better than me because brevity is not my forte is my psychiatrist.
Everybody needs a psychiatrist because nobody is wired perfectly.
His thing is sleep and mental heath.
He's real big on sleep, he controls my meds, how much and what they do for me.
Five hours is barely enough he says, and he's right, he went to school for 10 years after graduating high school to learn all about that.
He's a damn good at what he does.
He's also right it's not normal for one to work all those years on the over nights.
He's right again, but unless you are a cop, firefighter, medical worker, I/T professional, or work at NORAD for instance certain people have to do it and it ain't easy to do your job, report to your empty suited managers at 8am that get paid double what you make and report to them the status of their multi million dollar IT data center. 98 percent of the time the work gets done flawlessly and the billion dollar corporation can do business that business day normally because the work that me, by partner and four others do.
For those rare 2 percent of the time, maybe four to six days a year if things did not go right at say 3am and business is delayed from opening for say two hours I have to make sure to detail everything that went wrong, why did it go wrong, what did I do about it to rectify the problem, if I could not resolve the problem on my own who did I call at 3am if anybody to assist you if the problem is say a programmer error, etc. etc. etc.
On those 98 percent of the other days a year, when things go flawlessly on the overnight, and it's business as usual and the company can conduct business as usual and continue to rake in multi million dollars, well that doesn't happen my accident, I (and my partner) and the other group of four that do their thing made it possible, I am a huge part of why that happens.
And God forbid if you slept through that problem when it occurred at 3am, because if you did, well can you say 'terminated'?
Yeah, that kind of professional pressure.
I'm real good at what I do, I must be, one upper executive type once said to about six years ago 'Bill (my real name in real life) you are the reason why I sleep well at night'
I'll never forget that.
Priceless.
Get my point?
Sleep is critical.
I'll smell you guys later, I work from home all the time now.
I got work work to do, household work to do, you know March budgets, family banking business paperwork to do, you know it is March 1, it tool me 2 hours to close out February's business, do some cooking, look after the dogs while the Mrs. is taking care of other family errands.
Than I really need to put in another a couple of hours prep time for this opening MLB season, it's my passion and hobby and I do make some side business money at it too.
Be back around 7