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I'm unemployable just because of this. I cannot "work" in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.
Do you get enough sleep to even judge whether you're able to wake up in the AM?
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I'm confident you could work in the morning if you readjusted your sleeping habits. And there are a ton of jobs out there that start later in the day or have flexible work hours.
> I'm confident you could work in the morning if you readjusted your sleeping habits. This subthread is about the possible/probable genetic reasons why some people have more trouble adjusting their sleeping habits to that of everyone else. Saying that he just needs to adjust his sleeping habits is not really helpful.
Am I the only one who can't read this because it's behind a paywall?
Is it just me or is this article also paywalled for you when you click web => WSJ article? If so, is there another way to read it other than paying for a subscription? I don't read the WSJ often enough to justify subscribing.
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I was a night owl from the time I was 16 until 33(sleep 2-3-4AM until 10AM-11AM-12PM), and then I adjusted my sleep cycle to be an early riser(sleep 11-6). It took about 4 days before I felt physically right. The hardest part was lifestyle adjustments around the differing hours. I don't believe I have any kind of special power. OP sounds depressed with a self-defeatist mindset. He considers himself unemployable becau…
Without clocks I will naturally go to bed between 5a and 7a and wake between 1 and 3p. I've had a "normal" schedule for most of my life, and have gone long stretches (months) where I was in bed every night by 10p. It doesn't stick. Without alarms and diligence, I will always revert to my natural schedule within days.
Also, I'm curious what your natural bedtime would be if you not only removed clocks, but also removed TVs, screens and other artificial lighting. It seems unfair to say you would do something 'naturally' without clocks, but not without all the other technology that is actually causing you to stay awake at non-natural hours in the first place.
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I do this, but seasonality can be an issue. The last few winters I've added some artificial lighting that ramps up before sunrise, with seemingly positive results.
Curious how you implemented this. I bought a Phillips “sunrise alarm clock” about a year ago, but the light was weak and I didn’t feel a difference at all. Did you hack together something yourself?
I can't read TFA, but wanted to note that there's an interesting statistic in the book Why We Sleep : Something like 30% of the population are hard-wired to be "night owls" and 20% early risers. The author hypothesized that this may be an evolutionary survival mechanism that allowed bands of humans to always have people who were awake or more likely to wake quickly if threatened after dark or in the early morning. Fo…
I'm unemployable just because of this. I cannot "work" in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.
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> I'm confident you could work in the morning if you readjusted your sleeping habits. This subthread is about the possible/probable genetic reasons why some people have more trouble adjusting their sleeping habits to that of everyone else. Saying that he just needs to adjust his sleeping habits is not really helpful.
I was a night owl from the time I was 16 until 33(sleep 2-3-4AM until 10AM-11AM-12PM), and then I adjusted my sleep cycle to be an early riser(sleep 11-6). It took about 4 days before I felt physically right. The hardest part was lifestyle adjustments around the differing hours. I don't believe I have any kind of special power. OP sounds depressed with a self-defeatist mindset. He considers himself unemployable becau…
I'm unemployed now (last 14 months), and I've given up so that I don't even look for job anymore since I don't think we'd be compatible. Saves my time and employers money.
Yes I'm slow-starter - it takes me from 1.5hr to 2.5hrs in the morning to start my day. Now I usually wake up at 7:30-8:30 because I'm happy owner of six parrots and they need maintenance and to make a lot of noise :)
All this combines with my inability to stick to just one single thing to do. I have to change stuff I do very often, which leaves many of my projects unfinished. From this reason I usually find myself very unhappy working on some project for longer periods, especially if those projects are too complex to even start contributing - because of this I then usually used to start working on something different in my "free time" (in member of local hackerspace) and my productivity (if there was any) goes away. This allowed me to acquire quite a lot of different skills and knowledge but left me uneployable.
Or maybe I just haven't come across a job that really suits me and be appreciable, yet
For anyone interested in changing their sleep habits and becoming a regular early riser, I found this guy's blog to be quite helpful: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/05/how-to-become-an-e...
This is more or less devoid of any useful information... When my alarm goes off every morning, I turn it off, stretch for a couple seconds, and sit up Is what everyone already knows. The article implies that you somehow just do this and conveniently ignores how useless that advice is for breaking or replacing habits. Especially ones where you’re not going to be alert enough to even remember that you’re supposed to be…
> This is going to sound really stupid, but it works. Practice getting up as soon as your alarm goes off. That’s right — practice. But don’t do it in the morning. Do it during the day when you’re wide awake.
https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-righ... (actual strategy starts about half way down)