Misery Olympics, or Competitive Suffering.
No matter how bad you have it, someone else has to tell you they have it worse.
8h sleep
2h in morning before work to cuddle cat, eat, do whatever, cuddle cat some more.
10h at work/going to/from work and getting ready for work. I cycle to work so this also covers plenty of exercise.
4h in the evening before bed, usually dinner is done within an hour and during that time I can do a few other things as well.
I do most of my shopping in my work lunch breaks, serious question actually wtf can I do with an hour each day lunch break? Its so long and boring, not like I need to go shopping daily. Sometimes walk in the park but its fairly small and no benches to sit on.
Take up crab fishing in my lunch breaks and fill the work fridge with live crabs for my dinner could be an amusing option to get a new office rule implemented because of me.
If I’m telling you I got 4 hours of sleep, it’s not pride. It’s a warning.
Something I learned from cycling: When you put effort into using it, the morning is this mysterious beast of free time. We often get used to waking up, doing two-three things, and then it’s noon.
If you consciously sleep early, wake up early, and maybe plan to go somewhere as soon as you’re up, you can be back home planning to shower at your normal time, practically seeing your half asleep self doomscrolling in your bed from a prior day. You could even put a whole gaming session before your workday, if your job starts late enough.
I usually do get a round or 2 in before work and then I cycle to work as well. My partner is a teacher and her getting up early compared to typical office working times is largely what pushed it. For a long time I would go back to sleep but never really got useful sleep out of it.
When I worked from home I could go to the beach for a swim before work. Changed jobs when they wanted me to commute by train to another job in office that I can commute to by bike. WFH is nice but I’m not totally against going in, just against going in by public transport on a regular basis. I don’t drive but that would be even worse.
I don’t swim as much or go on as many recreational bike rides now, but overall cycling to work is more exercise as its every day.
I’ve taught my body to live with far less sleep than most, but I’m not under any illusion that it’s healthy. I’ve seen the studies. I know how important sleep is.
I have responsibilities in the morning, and I’ll go mad if I don’t have some time to myself at night. It shouldn’t be this way, but it is. I’d feel like a robot otherwise.
Same. My sleeping schedule is fucked because my ADHD brain operates best if I sleep from 5-7am to 2-3pm. Force me into a 9-5 job and you’ll literally get a zombie for 5-6 of those 8 hours.
Time for a late-shift job.
When you get to 1 hour that’s when you start telling chatgpt 3.5 to post about how sigma grindmaxcore you are on LinkedIn.
I remember when I got literally 1h of sleep then had to do my 12h work shift, it was real shit, I don’t wish it to happen to anyone.
Thank you for your wisdom monkey man
It frustrates me that people in this thread complain about time problems but won’t duscuss the obvious solution:
Tossing turds towards terrible time tyrants till they turn 9-to-5s to 10-to-4s
Upvote for alliteration.
I work 5 to 5 and still get my 8 every 24
Do you work from home and have someone else do your chores? Otherwise days on must be brutal— only 1 hour of free time a day I would guess.
My girl and I both do chores but I also run a small farm as a hobby lol. Its a 28 day rotational schedule so in the 28 I have 14 off, 7 of those 14 are in a row. Major things that need doing happen during my week off every month. My commute is 45 minutes, my days on are mostly just work, farm chores, house chores and sleep. The 5-5 also swaps between AM and PM throughout the 28. Shakes out to 168 hours a month. Getting 8 hours is about discipline more than anything. Thats also why I say/view it as 8 of every 24 not 8 a “night”. I will admit I am a fucking creature lmao.
I think the text should be changed to like
- I only got 4 hours of sleep
- haha I only got 1
To better capture the weird superiority aspect that people have over their suffering in response to other people’s complaints. As written, it reads more like someone making a joke about not getting much sleep and then someone responding (not in a joking way) that they got less.
while it does make you seem like a badass, it really just means your performance is bad, ass.
I lowkey hate people like this . You can say “I’m so tired I did 15 hour shift today” and they’ll say “that’s nothing I did a 24 hour shift and still haven’t slept”. I didn’t ask???
I saw this last night, and only got 4. Damn your eyes, I have to work DX
At least working dicks tends to pay well.
For various unavoidable reasons, I’m on an average of 4 hours and I don’t like it, let alone take pride in it.
Take heart. I averaged about 4.5 hours a day for 3 years running on third shift. I’ve since changed back to first and have been at almost 7 for over a year. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel.
Short term and long term are ill defined subjective entities, if my short term is long term enough I win.
