Live in the middle of nowhere with a fully remote job, groceries delivered, mostly just leave to do things I wanna do.
What job do you have if you don’t mind me asking
Data analyst but I was a sysadmin for almost 15 years.
Long Covid has me isolated from society at large anyways. I am not even exactly a night owl. It just so happens that my sleeping habits have become completely removed from mortal something somethings (insert your own intellectually sounding word, my brain is borked). I fall asleep when I’m tired and I wake up when I’m done sleeping.
At the moment that amounts to starting my sleep at about 4 or 5 am. But that is always subject to change. I just can’t force my sleeping cycle anymore, the health impact is too large.
I live in central Europe and work remotely with US team. Most people locally work from 7-8, I start work at 10.
10 years ago I’d be awake from 12 till 3 in the morning, it took me a few years to migrate towards 10 till 1. I still do oversleep on weekends, though.
There’s a reason I moderate [email protected] and other related communities.
I’m retired and I can finally follow my body’s clock. Bed at 3:00 am, get up around noon.
The only obligation I can’t readily schedule to my liking is worship service on Sunday.
Also not insurmountable. My mom used to drag us to the 5:30 (pm) mass growing up, I’m sure there are other churches that do something similar.
There’s probably even a Zoom service for that so you can worship whenever you want. Maybe find a church in Hawaii that has a livestream?
Oh heck yeah, I do the zoom so at least I don’t have to get up earlier and drive there. They keep giving me grief for it, though.
The thing I hated the most about covid was how businesses reduced hours. It was stupid when it happened because it meant people were more likely to come in contact during the fewer hours the stores were still open. It was stupid in hindsight because the stated reason was so they could be closed to sanitize when a) covid doesn’t last that long on surfaces anyways, and b) it’s airborne and wasn’t really transmitted on surfaces in most cases.
In the end, it’s just harder to function as someone who often starts their “morning routine” in the afternoon. Especially being in a location where for some reason everything closes like mid-afternoon Sundays.
Move to a place where your body clock hours align with the hours of your remote employment. Move to a place where the society is later at night. Be a star performer so that the managers don’t care that you show up after “lunch” because you lock the building when you’re done and get all your work done.
I work with a lot of Chinese and Indian people, and they often work into the late nights to match the US hours.
I have moved to a place now where my work hours are from about 8pm to 5am as a “9-5 job”. I get up in the afternoon like I enjoy. Do anything I want like appointments, errands, sports, leisure, etc. Have “dinner”, then start work and work through the night.
The place I moved also tends to be a late people. Early morning is 10am, dinner is 8pm, and the restaurants near me are bustling until 2am, and some are going strong to 5am. Children play in the parks and public spaces at 1am.
This artificial morning people stupidness can be escaped.
Wherever you live sounds like paradise
That sounds like Spain
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That’s the neat part. I don’t
Wdym? I just always work late shifts and meet other weird night people at the handful of businesses still open when I get off work.
By not participating in it, mostly.
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I assure you, I do not cope at all. That’s why I’m up at night, when the rest of modern society is asleep.
Endless screaming. Just… endless.
My home is equipped with Thomas Edison‘s electric lamps. I can write with my quill all hours of the night without getting any soot on my walls.
Personally, I’ve always been partial to Nikola Tesla’s alternating current.
Did you not see Mister Edison’s demonstration of how dangerous that is? It killed that beast from the dark continent dead! Surely 200 years from now our descendants will laugh at us for ever giving Tesla the time of day for his proposterous schemes.
🎶A great big beautiful tomorrow…🎶
Oh, don’t get me started on my wax cylinders. Those are great for powering through late night sessions.
Work 3rd shift, sleep until 5pm, get accused of vampirism.
Hey, uh, is this just a hair or does my mirror have a crack in it?
