I am very jealous of people who only need 6 or 7 hours! (And I mean "need", not "would like more but only get...")
Poor Casper has lights out at 9pm (and we can't reasonably push it much earlier) and gets up at 6:15 because school starts at 7:30 and the poor child is exhausted all the time during the week. It can't be healthy. (I know, 9 hours sounds like a lot, but she is young and growing like crazy.)
Yeah, I was basically cranky for five years from 8th-12th grade, because school started at 7:30 and my bus picked me up at 6:40, and I was even less a morning person now than then. In theory I was supposed to go to bed at 9PM, but it only vaguely happened, I was usually in my ROOM, but not asleep, by a long shot.
I don't have to be at work till 9, a situation I've set up deliberately because I know my ability to get to bed early. Not having kids to worry about makes life must less complicated.
This is me. Also I know my ability to get up early. Unreliable. Some days I'm up at 5am, but those days I'll be asleep by 8, and sleeping interferes somewhat with working. I can function on 5 hours sleep for one day, but to be really alert, I need at least 7. School was such a misery, because I had to get up at 5 every school morning from 1st grade to senior graduation.
I regularly get by on 5-6.5 hrs. I could do with more, but I'm functional. Weekends I tend to sleep more. I just can't make myself go to bed at a reasonable hour and I just wake up early. I can easily fall back to sleep, but only if I plan to be later to work than I'd like. So I get up.
6 hours is about average for me I'd say. It's when that six is broken up with wake ups that I get really testy.
I've been doing 5-6 hours a night pretty consistently since the Spring, with more nights than I'd like to think about that are closer to 4 hours. This has been pretty much 7 days a week.
My body hates me. I wake up after five hours I sleep on a good night. So going to bed early doesn't guarantee extra sleep. I just wake up at two am. And then get sleepy again an hour before I should be up.
ND, your boss may pay you well, but he has unreasonable expectations as to the workload you can handle.
I've had two nights of around seven hours of uninterrupted sleep in a row this week and it seems like a frigging miracle. I need at least seven hours of sleep, but I've been getting usually about 5-6, and rarely without waking up at some point for the last few years. It sucks.
Quick question for the hivemind: Tip the furniture delivery guy? What if I've already paid the delivery fee? What if he's the owner? I don't want to hurt his feelings if I should tip but don't, or insult him if I shouldn't tip an owner but do. Help?
