| > You can live your life to the maximum extent, without scheduling in the extra time to manage getting to sleep, and feeling tired when you don't. I did this for a year when I was caring for my dad and working at the same time, but remember that this process makes you almost completely alone because your breaks do not line up with the world around you. I would wake up at 7 AM on a monday, to attend the weekly planning meetings & keep slipping by about 1 hour every day of the week, so by Thu I am waking up after noon & I tended to just work through the night on Fri to sleep near dawn on Saturday. The problem was that Fri nights and weekends are when people are mostly ready to socialize or relax, I would literally sleep through the day on Saturday and wake up close to 4 AM on Sunday. Then go to sleep around 7 PM on Sunday, because I woke up so early and then monday I wake up with 12hours of sleep. Lost weight from skipping meals by sleeping. This felt completely awesome from a personal standpoint & also from the friends I had on IRC, but from an IRL standpoint it was very odd. I definitely looked like a shut-in, even I grew my hair out simply because I did not have the time to go get it cut during business hours. Then my dad died, which ended that chapter in an unexpected way. I remembered those days when I had my first kid, the experience was shockingly similar when it comes to perturbed sleep schedules. |