Would I be able to sleep like this… how would this work?
There’s this job that I’m trying to get that is from 10:30 pm to 6 am. It PAYS, it’s a piece of cake, and I’m more of a night owl than a morning person anyways. However, I don’t see when I would get all my sleep really….. I have school at 1:40pm so I at least need to be awake by 1pm. By the time I drive home and everything from the job, it’d be around 7AM. So I’d have approx 6 hours of sleep (give or take, because I tend to lay there for a long time before I actually fall asleep) before school. Actually probably less than that if I want to eat lunch. I get out of school at 3:15, and home around 3:40 (the traffic is awful). Then sometime in the evening (very flexible and not necessary a specified time I need to be there, but it takes at least 3 hours) I need to go out to the barn and clean stalls (my other job). I don’t necessarily need to do this every single evening, but at least 4 times a week.
So right now my schedule is:
1:40 pm – school
3:15 – get out of school
3:40 – get home
5-8 pm – clean stalls (although again, I don’t do this every single evening, just four evenings a week give or take a few).
3 AM – bed time ;-]
So I do have a lot of free time, however, I don’t know when I would get all my sleep. I would be able to get 5-6 hours of sleep before school, and possible squeeze in 2-3 hours of sleep after school somehow to get my full 8 hours (although I normally like to go for 10 hours or so LOL ;-]
But my problem is, can I still get through enough REM cycles when I split up my sleep into sections like that? a sleep cycle is 90 minutes, correct? I’m just worried that I can’t really split my sleep up like this and still allow my body to go through what it needs to go through during sleep.
BTW I’m an 18 year old female… if my diet is relevant, I’m a vegetarian, and I don’t take vitamins. Oh, and as far as medications, I take Zoloft.
LOL and now it’s gone because someone reported it so you look like your on crack because you’re making a comment about nothing LOL!!!
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Welcome to the dark side. Sounds like you should be alright. I know people who get about that much sleep at my company. It may take about two weeks to adjust to that schedule, and you should be fine. Just remember to eat breakfast food when you wake up, and dinner type food later in your day before going to sleep. I’ve eaten chili as soon as waking up, and that’s not good, lol. That is unless you try to do that shift during the week and go sleep at night on weekends, then it will take a few months to a year to adjust and it will be hard on your immune system. Good luck with your new job, and say good by to crowded traffic filled roads, but watch out for the drunks, since bars close around 3am and they are all on the road at once.
you’ll burn yourself out and you will be dreading school. trust me, been there done it.
PS LOVE the acai berry comment. LMAO
Well, I could do it. But I get about 5-6 hours of sleep a night, every night, and I’m used to it.
I think the first two weeks will be hell, and after that you’ll be okay. That’s how it was for my mom when she started 1st shift, but now she loves it because she can choose when she sleeps. Either in the morning, afternoon, or evening. So she can plan to sleep AROUND her day plans, which is nice.
I would totally take a 1st shift job. They pay really good, and it seems like once you get used to the cycle, you have more free time because you’re getting your work done while everyone else is sleeping.
So, I would go for it, but you say you get 10 hours of sleep a night? When you went to school all day, how many did you get? Probably the same as me? And you did fine. I’m sure. It’ll take some adjusting, but it’s definitely doable.