Life is better when everyone else is sleeping.
When I was an Uber driver it was great because I could work whatever schedule I felt like working.
I didn’t even need to have a consistent schedule. My natural cycle is based on a Martian day: I stay up about 30 minutes later each night unless there’s something forcing me into a normal Earth schedule.
I am single with no children. Having no reason to switch to a “normal person” schedule on my days off, I simply don’t. Combine that with blackout curtains and I don’t have many problems. Occasionally I need to engage with a business who for some God-awful reason insists on doing work before noon, and those days suck, but otherwise I’m good.
Accumulate a massive sleep debt, crash when I can’t go anymore. This will repeat until I have a heart attack or aneurysm yelling at yet another day walker that can’t drive for shit. Otherwise, everything is peachy.
This and caffeine
Wife thinks I’m being lazy bc I crash and don’t help with baby on weekend mornings … I call her lazy when she falls asleep after I put the toddler to bed on weekdays.
We have a happy marriage.
I worked as a Night Auditor for 3 years where I taught myself web development and landed my first tech job at a startup. Luckily the meetings were late afternoon which is a little after I wake up.
I’d take care of ghe code during the night/morning, review it before the meeting, meet, rinse and repeat.
Fortunately/unfortunately depending on how you look at it, the startup got to MVP, but also ran out of money. Now I’ll be looking for work again, but my sleep schedule is still vampire time.
I’m considering looking for remote work on the other side of the pond. I’m in the US. Other than that I guess I have to go through the extremely painful process of changing my sleep habits.
