Tug of war - Community vs Mods - to 200 (or -200)

[jetsam]

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Yeah... too early. I subsist on cat naps when I need to, throughout the day...

[guiverc]

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[jetsam]

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It's better than various alternatives... I'd like to sleep 8 hours a night straight through, but I only manage it once in a blue moon. 5 is average, 3 not unusual. 4 Last night... Then I add 2-3 hours of sleep in naps the next day usually. Or I carefully caffeinate myself for the next 16 hours and can't sleep the next night.

[guiverc]

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I used to sleep more like you (though rarely 3-4; 5-6 the norm) but thankfully not anymore.

[jetsam]

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It's something that growing up I didn't realize changed as you got older... I thought I'd always be that groggy teenager who would sleep 11 hours on the weekends...

[guiverc]

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I don't [really] remember my teenage years (though somewhat it's I don't want to)

Your sleep habits reminded me of one project (~2 years) where 12-16 hour days became the norm (after a couple of weeks of that I became a zombie... many of us did; so we adjusted to 3 shifts of 9 hours [1 hour cross-over] which worked much better longer term). Thankfully I was much younger then; I couldn't do that now I bet

[jetsam]

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...that can only be the fabulous software industry... gah.
I literally do feel like a zombie sometimes when recovering from long sleepless period... like 20+ hours awake, then sleep for 4. Wake up, stumbling, bleary eyed, brain feels like a fish. I try to avoid that.

[guiverc]

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on the plus side; those long hours were long ago, and I got paid time.and.a.half after a certain point, then double after second point (beyond expected hours), so my pay packet benefited from it

[jetsam]

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Yeah. I didn't leave my s****y software job 'till after they made me salaried. It took away the only benefit I got from working their terrible schedules-- overtime pay.

[guiverc]

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