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As System Admins we all have issues with sleep the below link explains how to decide our work schedule based on sleep pattern, I did go through it but didn’t seem matching to us, Does anyone have the sleeping trouble and most often get mid night calls for support.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40491564/how-to-design-your-ideal-workday-based-on-your-sleep-habits

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I can be all of those things from day to day. So i’ll just have to stick a needle in the vains and pump coffee directly into them.

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I’m usually a morning person. It doesn’t seem to matter how late I stay up I still get up early.

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It depends, I can be up at a lot of times but sleep still is a must.

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Lots of trouble sleeping - usually in 2 hour bursts for some reason. Unfortunately, I can’t really configure my schedule around my sleep pattern.

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None of these fit me. I’m up at or before 4:00 a.m. - usually without an alarm, and have my one and only cup of coffee finished before 5:00. I get the bulk of my work done before most people have their breakfast, then eat lunch around 10:30 or so. By 2:00-2:30 p.m., I’m headed home. Of course, I’m always in bed by 9:00 p.m. in order to make all this happen happen, and I sleep like a rock.

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I’m a night guy.

Up at 8:00am

9am-5PM

Home at 6, bed at 1:00 - 2:00AM

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Quit drinking caffeine, exercise, and you’ll probably sleep just fine.

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No mention of the poly-phasic sleepers.

Weekdays Bedside lamp and alarm at 6:29 am. Alarm at 6:59 am, move that tail. Fix semi-daily meals for pets (lizards), out the door at 7:30 with a tall tea, coffee, or a soda. Work by 7:45 or 8 am (yay traffic, yay combines and tractors! On my!)

8 am breakfast at work, hot pocket or pot pie and a cup of noodle soup (soup clears the sinuses). Start dragging around 10 am, soda.

11 am, shop goes to lunch this is when they first see their computers and something is always wrong, 11:30/12 pm Office goes to lunch – all the “Can you fix this while I’m at lunch” calls.

Lunch for myself is expected around 12 pm, but let’s get real it doesn’t happen until 1 pm or almost 2 pm. If 2 pm or later, I usually end up staying late at work.

4:30 pm half the office that arrived at 6 am leaves. Try leaving at 5 pm, nope, 5:15, nope… 5:30 pm if lucky. 2/5 chance it’s after 7 pm before leaving.

After work errands if not sleepy. Home by 7 pm.

1 out of 20 chance eat dinner immediately upon arriving home, sandwich or soup or leftovers. crash on couch before 7 pm. Awake by 10 pm

4 out of 10 chance CRASH on couch. Higher chances on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays. Wake at 8 or 9 pm eat sandwich or something nuked. Bed by 12 am

1 in 10 chance of sleeping 58 minutes until Amber alert goes off on 2 phones. Scream “I don’t care! It’s dark and I’m not going outside!” Try to nap again. 2 hours later weather radio does the amber alert too. Screw it, I’m awake. Gobble dinner, play video games, target bed time at 12 am, really go to sleep at 1 or 2 am.

Friday night, bed at 9 pm cuz I’m dog tired. Sleep until 11 pm, up till 2 am. Sleep until alarm 10 am. Nap at 1 pm or 3 pm, or 4 pm, wake by 7 pm

Saturday night kept up by friends, bed at 2 am, 3 am, maybe 4 am… Sleep until alarm 10 am… nod off, alarm at 11 am… Nap at 1 pm or 3 pm or 4 pm, wake by 7 pm

Sunday night can’t sleep, lie in bed at 12 am, sleep at 2 am, wake at 3, and 5 am… Alarm at 6:29 am. Did I really even sleep?

I call it the dragon sleep schedule… I’m always dragging tail Monday morning.

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No matter what kind of sleeper you are, you can’t just loaf around until your wolfishness or other sleep wears off. Boss wants/needs you in the office at 7. Gotta be there if you like getting paid.

These kinds of articles are always interesting, but it’s like they assume everyone has a schedule flexible enough to accommodate. Never mind getting to the office at a specific time, or needing to take kids to school, or any other appointment/obligation that is required of you.

The majority of people are bear types probably because that is what is demanded of them, and has been pretty much since they entered the workforce, at least. Never mind that your internal clock really gets tuned to early mornings and workforce time structures starting in elementary school, if only because that’s the time the teachers have to keep.

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Right, like “leave the office early if you can since your energy will be waning…”

Hey boss, I’ve gotta leave a little early, its my sleepy time and this website says I should go home.

-Boss: Ok, don’t come back!

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Yeah, that doesn’t really work for me. I mean part of it is my “schedule” and part of it it my location, as well as my sleep habits.

I can’t fall asleep. Literally. Whether I’ve been up for an hour, or up for 36, with or without any caffeine, when I lie down to sleep I guaranty you I’ll still be awake in an hour.

My work day starts at 0700. But my body wakes me up before my alarm (which is set for about 0500)… usually half an hour to an hour before. Trying to “catch a few more zzzs” usually make me feel more tired not less.

Now, let me mention the “dolphin” notes…

MORNING ROUTINE: 6 a.m.–10 a.m. Jump out of bed and into your running shoes. Break a light sweat and get some sun.

This time of year “up here” in Edmonton… Sunrise is late. (Google says it was 0850 today) so… yeah I’m at work long before the sun is up. It was also an extreme cold warning this morning… so outside isn’t my friend. (yes I could, and at times have, gone to a gym before work but that isn’t “easy” to do all the time)

So… Yeah. Interesting read, and could be helpful in some general ways, but I’d guess a lot of people don’t fit any of those 4 patterns. might fit one more than the others but no perfect matched.

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I sleep like a wolf. I learned a long time ago to set my alarm earlier so I could hit snooze for ~20 minutes before actually getting up. I find I’m in a much better mood if I wake up gradually vs suddenly.

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@scott-sa-spiceworks Re Edmonton… How are we liking this cold snap… And of course, it has to happen when my wife is off work for 2 weeks… she’s an outdoor person… but not an outdoor person at -30… My drive to work is about 25 minutes… My car was barely warm by the time I came in this morning… I’m hearing the ride home won’t be much warmer…

@bob-13

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Heh, I like cooler weather. But not this cold. I… was outside scraping frost off the car… and almost decided to zip up my jacket… then decided it was my face/ears that was cold I so didn’t.

It was brisk.

Now, my car is “new” ish. so it warmed up okay. But I was definitely “awake” after that. Luckily my office has underground parking… so it might be able to stay “warm” while I visit my mum after work. Tonight… I wish I could plug my car in, but “what’s the worst that could happen” right, RealM ?

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Yikes! Well, I also have a new-ish (2016) car. Haven’t had the urge to plug it in yet. I was actually reading a report from AMA stating we should plug in our car two hours before using it when temperature reaches -15C. Uh huh… suuuure!

Anyway, sorry for hijacking and going off topic here…

I don’t sleep. And by that, I mean, doesn’t matter what time I go to bed, if it’s before midnight, I’ll be up at 5 no matter what…unless I’m sick. If I go to bed after midnight, I’m up typically after 5-6 hours of sleep at most. On weekends, I like to have a 2 hour nap in the afternoon, but not because I need it, just because I enjoy it.

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On the day before Christmas party we were having moments and while discussing with a women who was a senior manager mentioned us you guys are like aliens never sleeping and roaming around the office all the time looking for issues and shared this article as an advice and told following one of these would be very good for health as i see now no IT person can follow these schedules now i am feeling like ha ha i am not an Alien any more (ha ha).

But i can’t stop caffeine nor the beer i live by them it’s like normal human body have ~70% water and we some people in here have caffeine and beer for 35 and 35.

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I got put on a project once at a remote site an hour away ISP had to do some kind of a fiber change. I had to do like once before and just came in at like 12-1PM then worked to 8PM. The last time seemed would be like that, but ended up at remote site until 1AM, then got back to campus like 2AM, was asked to then reboot a router for the ISP there, could not find router, ended up was actually at the remote site. by the time I left it was like 3AM. When it started to look like it would be a while I called one of my bosses told them this could be a while, I may come in late the next day probably like noon. Totally strange being in big building at 3AM all the parking lot lights were out, all the lights were out, was a bit spooky.

Driving back like 2-3AM I was a bit worried because that’s when all the drunks would probably be out. I think I only saw one other car though the entire ride back. Deer usually like to move at night too. Not something I look forward to doing again, and boss was on vacation so asked me to do it for him never even got a thank you for doing for him. (I get not required, but when someone goes out of the way like that and saves you from doing something you didn’t want to do I think it should be acknowledged.)

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Every night before I head to bed, I start Spotify and Chromecast to the Google Home that sits on my nightstand. There’s a company that put all their work on Spotify, called Satori Sounds, their “Best Sleep Ever” playlist, shuffle and repeat works for me. Set the Google Home volume to 35% or 40% and just forget about it. Sleep like a rock. Here’s the album link: Best Sleep Ever - Delta Wave Isochronic & Binaural & Healing Solfeggio Audio Soundscapes for Better Sleep - Album by Satori Sounds | Spotify .

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Whenever I have problems falling asleep, I start rattling off the names of the players on my fave team in my head and in no time Im out. LeBron James…JR Smith…Tristan Thompson…Kevin Lo…snore!!!