I've been a night owl bartender for years now and will be changing careers in the next year. As much as I love staying up until 7am I'm ready for a change. Has anyone successfully made this switch or have any advice? Willing to do almost anything except take sleeping pills lol. Much thanks in advance!
I have a cs associates degree and some certs. Im considering going back for my b.s. degree, but I don't do well at day shift jobs as my brain seems to power on at night. Wondering if it would be worth it. Anyone have any suggestions for a techie-vampire?
I got so used to online asynch classes it was awesome. But for some reason I naturally am awake at night. Like I get productive and am more alert between 10pm-7am. But anytime other than those I struggle. I just sleep better during the day and can almost never sleep at night. Even if i do sleep at night never more than 1-5 hours max. Being back in person has sucked for me just because I’m not a morning person. I’d even go as far to say I’m nocturnal at this point 😅
Anyone else?
I have been awake at night since I was a child. I'm not fighting it anymore. It is who I am. All the people I know acknowledge it as being how I have always been. Sleep til 1pm. Stay awake til 4am.
I have a job that allows me to stay awake at night and sleep until my desired time.
But the rest of the world is a bit harder. Especially after 2020 when stores started closing earlier before I get off work at 10pm. Appointments I try to make always want me to be there before noon.
Feels like the whole world is compounding to say "wake up at 8am lazy" while I have 30 years of experience saying "no, I can't, never could, can I make this appointment for 4pm and can I schedule it at 10pm?"
Since childhood I’ve tried extremely hard to have productive mornings. My mother is one of those people who wakes up at 4am because she likes the silence. She will study her Bible or do her figurings for bills until 7am when it was time to wake us kids up for school. I so badly wanted to be like my mom. She got so much done in the mornings! But no matter how hard I tried or how many strategies I used, I could never actually become like her. I could wake up, yes, but I would feel like a zombie for hours on end until mid morning when I would normally wake up. At 17 I joined the military and woke up at 5am everyday for over a year… it never got easier. I was told to “just try harder” but I was trying as hard as I could and still falling short of my Comrades who just needed a 2 week adjustment period and then were golden. WHY couldn’t I do the same??. Even now, 26 years old with 2 kids, it takes everything I have to wake up at 7:30am to get my eldest off to school and then come home to veg out until I can wake up my mind enough to even function. For my entire life, I have been the most productive after 2pm until 10pm. It’s like as soon as the clock hits 2pm, even if I haven’t looked at the time all day, my body gets shocked and wants to do ALL THE THINGS! I will go at top speed until 10pm and then crash for the night at about 11pm. So I guess I’m an… evening person? Afternoon person? I’ve never been able to make sense of it because everyone else I know is either a “morning person” or a “night owl” and I am neither. Just another way I didn’t fit in with my peers. Just another way I was signaled out and called “lazy” because I just can’t make my body move in any significant way before 2pm. I’ve tried everything. It’s just not how my brain works I guess. Since being diagnosed, I’ve found that many other ADHDers experience this too but also don’t have any answers for me. So, I’ve decided to stop trying to put my energy into being a morning person, and start playing to my strengths. The past two weeks have been the most productive I have ever been. I wake up at 7:30am to take my child to school, and then come home and be very kind and gentle with myself for the rest of the morning. I use that time to bond with my toddler, play with my dogs, and do my hobbies, instead of stressing about how much I am putting off by being a useless morning person. Then when I get my burst of energy and motivation at 2pm, I’m able to get everything that needs to be done, don
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As the title says, I love getting as much done in the morning as I can. I used to work out at 6am every week day, catch up on email and be relaxing with coffee by 730. However since I’ve gotten married comfortable later morning have become the norm (no complaints here) filled with cuddles and sleeping in.
I want to start incorporating my morning routine again, but my wife tends to have trouble starting the day when we don’t wake up together. I’m talking with her and we’re trying to problem solve, but I’m curious what strategies those of you in committed relationships with night owls or vice versa have done.
Any tips?
I’m currently in grad school studying to be a secondary education science teacher. I’ve never had a job before with such a consistent early wake up time, and ever since I was a kid I’ve always had a delayed circadian rhythm (get tired ~1-3am, ready to wake up ~9-11am). I’m sure a lot of this has to do with my ADHD as it’s difficult for me to stick to a consistent bedtime- there are just so many Exciting Things that my brain wants to do way more than it wants to sleep! And even when I do get myself to bed at a “normal” time, I really struggle waking up to an alarm, not pressing snooze, not wasting time scrolling on my phone, and making it out the door on time in the mornings. I’ve tried prepping the night before (packing lunch, laying out outfits, etc.), sleeping with my phone out of reach, setting multiple alarms, etc. but I still struggle. Any tips for me?
i'll go first unfortunately i am most productive at night which leads me to sleeping few hours during exam season :( i have tried fixing this problem many times but i fail each and every time.
it's just for fun so which one do you identify with best?
Been struggling with this all my life, I've always naturally wanted to wake up around ~11am but then I feel like half my day is gone. When I started working full time I was forced to wake up around 6-7am (and still do now) but it's never felt good and when the weekend hits I end up sleeping in every time.
I want to make the change once and for all and become a morning person, just wondering if anyone has made this change and if so, what were the things you needed to do to make it last? Not looking for any tips from someone who is naturally a morning person and can wake up at 7am with no alarm.
Me, I'm a morning person.
I feel like I'm in "solar energy".
If I want to get something done, I have to do it in the morning (like buying groceries and chores).
The later the day gets, the lesser chance I'll do something.
After dinner I don't want to go out anymore because I need to recharge my energy for the next day.
...i know it's not INFP related. I'm just curious..
I've been seeing this guy for two months and we made it official a week ago. I'm so comfortable with him it's insane and so far we have more in common than anyone else I've ever dated, and I'm just really excited about him in general. The one big concern I have is that our schedules could not be more different. He works an overnight shift four to five days a week, whereas I'm a freelancer and work from home so I pretty much control my hours. Our actual jobs aren't too much of an issue because I can just work around his schedule. It's more the fact that he is 100% a night owl (and kind of has to be, in order to be able to function at work), and I am the epitome of a morning person. Ideally I like to be asleep no later than 11pm and up by 6am, whereas on his days off he stays up til like 4am and doesn't wake up until the early afternoon. This is totally fine with me in theory, but in reality every time we hang out we end up staying up super late because he's not tired, and then I'm completely dead the entire next day. I also can't really make myself sleep in the next morning even if I've stayed up late, so I wind up waking up hours before him and just sitting around while he sleeps. He's aware that I get tired much earlier and has tried to be conscious of that, but it's kind of unreasonable to expect that he'd be ready or able to go to bed at even midnight when he only woke up at 1pm.
It would be such a huge bummer to me if something as simple as schedules ended a potentially really healthy relationship, but I also think that personal schedules ARE pretty important and if they don't line up I'm not sure how to make that work long term.
**TLDR**: My boyfriend is a night owl and I'm a morning person. Is it doomed?
I’m a normal person I just sleep at a different time that’s all. I just feel out of place from everyone else that wakes up at “normal times”. I’ve worked graveyard shifts for a while now and up until now I’ve always felt some resistance in the way I live my life because of it. I begin my job around 8pm and end until 4am and don’t go to sleep until 5-6am. I used to get depressed because I was waking up as the sun was setting. I hope the future brings more accommodations to us night owls.
I’m a night person, I can stay up until 5-7 am but I have to try and dial it back to 2-3 am since I have online college classes in the morning.
I know that I should try and fix my sleep schedule but the thing is that I genuinely like staying up late and can’t imagine going to bed early.
Many of us would be night owls here. I am an extreme night owl. There are friends to hang out at evening time. But it gets lonely after midnight. I sleep around 3/4am or even 5am. I am open to night owl people who wants to be friends.
A little intro about me : 28/M, Doctor working in research and acadmeics.
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REAAALLY need tips
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