#4156869 - 08/12/15 09:50 PM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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I've got two kids under 4.
What's this sleep thing? What they do in between feeding, needing a diaper change and keeping you awake. - I normally try to get 8 or 9. Can be as much as 10 on Saturday depening how the night out was. I do know I work okay with less, if I have a good reason to get out of bed.
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#4156879 - 08/12/15 10:28 PM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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5 if I'm lucky too.
Bed around 10am up by 4pm at work around 10pm Bed normally around 11-midnight and wake up at 5:30am. I've been getting around 4-6 hours of sleep for the last 15 years, even when I'm away from the family.
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#4157049 - 08/13/15 01:41 PM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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They believe they can just drink a lot of coffee or pop a bunch of pills and they're fine. Take away the pills and/or caffeine and you'll find suddenly that they all don't get by on 5 hrs very well. The Jedi Master
The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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#4157052 - 08/13/15 01:45 PM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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That would explain it. A lot of the tech guys I have coming in are drinking Monster or something all day. I don't partake of the coffee or energy drinks, so that explains why I'm always drained without sleep.
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#4157059 - 08/13/15 01:53 PM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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That would explain it. A lot of the tech guys I have coming in are drinking Monster or something all day. I don't partake of the coffee or energy drinks, so that explains why I'm always drained without sleep. I think it's fine to have one of those around 2-3PM when you start to ebb a bit, but if you need it first thing, and ESPECIALLY all day, it's like using avgas in your car. It will work for a little while, but that engine won't hold up well for long. I will have my first during lunch, assuming it's a soda with caffeine in it (which it is about 75% of the time). I may or may not have another before I get home, and then I usually have one with dinner. There are exceptions, but that's the usual pattern. I can't stand coffee or those energy drinks, though. The Jedi Master
The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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#4157082 - 08/13/15 02:30 PM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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Usually five to six hours, been that way for about ten years now. Shortest is when I'm on shift at site, and that's usually around three hours.
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#4157115 - 08/13/15 04:04 PM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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This is starting to go way OT, but you can't just quote a salary without a location. $100K in San Francisco Bay Area doesn't go nearly as far as it would in rural Nevada.
100% agreed. I live in the same city as malibu43...in our town, a 3 bedroom 2 bath "nothing special" rents between $4,000-$5,000 a month. You can add in almost $1,000 a month for healthcare for my family of 4, and do the math on the rest. That explains why myself personally works more and sleeps less. I know what some will say..."Well, why did you move there?" I didn't...I was raised here and things weren't nearly this bad in the 70's and 80's. After the explosion of the Silicon Valley...the cost of living exploded here as well. Yep, out here on West Coast, $100k is the salary for an experienced IT engineer, but that money doesn't mean you live in luxury due to the cost of housing (rent for a family in the burbs is $2500-$3000/mo), high fuel taxes (gas is still $3.49/gal out here and most people have 45mins-1hr commute) and 10% sales taxes. I get about 6-7hrs of sleep now but when my oldest daughter was little she didn't sleep through the night for the first couple of years so I learned that i could function with just 3hrs sleep during the weekdays and catching up on weekends, not fun but was doable.
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#4157135 - 08/13/15 05:05 PM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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This is starting to go way OT, but you can't just quote a salary without a location. $100K in San Francisco Bay Area doesn't go nearly as far as it would in rural Nevada.
100% agreed. I live in the same city as malibu43...in our town, a 3 bedroom 2 bath "nothing special" rents between $4,000-$5,000 a month. You can add in almost $1,000 a month for healthcare for my family of 4, and do the math on the rest. That explains why myself personally works more and sleeps less. I know what some will say..."Well, why did you move there?" I didn't...I was raised here and things weren't nearly this bad in the 70's and 80's. After the explosion of the Silicon Valley...the cost of living exploded here as well. Yep, out here on West Coast, $100k is the salary for an experienced IT engineer, but that money doesn't mean you live in luxury due to the cost of housing (rent for a family in the burbs is $2500-$3000/mo), high fuel taxes (gas is still $3.49/gal out here and most people have 45mins-1hr commute) and 10% sales taxes. I get about 6-7hrs of sleep now but when my oldest daughter was little she didn't sleep through the night for the first couple of years so I learned that i could function with just 3hrs sleep during the weekdays and catching up on weekends, not fun but was doable. Sounds like the Army's sleep schedule.
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#4157336 - 08/14/15 03:54 AM
Re: How many hours of sleep do you get (avg) before your working day?
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Average 5-6 hours and maybe a half an hour nap after dinner. Weekends are usually about 8-9 hours. While deployed a few months ago I was getting about 6-7 hours after working 12-13 hour shifts. We had one day off per week and I'd catch up with about 13 hours of sleep because there was absolutely nothing to do except laundry, haircut, and chow...lol.
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