What I learned by living without artificial light

Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by BigJono on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:38AM (#16930647)

This only works if you can actually wake up with a low amount of sleep. I put one of those alarms on my phone where you have to solve maths problems to turn it off. All I've managed to do so far is train myself to do maths in my sleep...

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by hiram112 on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:55AM (#16930740)

I did the same thing. It got to the point where I had to set it to about 5 snoozes of 3 hard math problems then a final 5 problem set.

It worked for a few months, but eventually I began just hard powering down the phone and falling back asleep for hours.

Needless to say, I have never been successful at any job or school where I wasn't able to work afternoons or nights. I don't even bother applying for jobs that do a typical 9-5.

It has kind of set my life on a strange course.

And it's now almost 7am, I haven't slept, and I will probably end up staying up all day...

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by pbhjpbhj on Thursday April 26, 2018 @07:42AM (#16930963)

Ha, any suggestions on roles other than programming that are good for night-owls?

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by jedberg on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:08PM (#16936335)

There are a lot of service jobs for night owls. Pretty much any place that serves customers at night has jobs for night owls.

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by Robin_Message on Thursday April 26, 2018 @08:33AM (#16931233)

Cinema projectionist is the classic one (from the film Fight Club!)

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Re:What I learned by living without artificial light by rleigh on Saturday April 28, 2018 @06:40AM (#16947042)

Surely this is primarily a question of willpower. Before you go to bed, commit to this action: when the alarm goes off, I will immediately get up. It quickly becomes habit.

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