Most of the times I’ve seen this happen it’s less a statement of pride but rather bonding over shared misery.
Like, “I too have experienced a sleep deficit due to circumstances inflicted on me by this rotten capitalist hell-scape that is our current reality🫂”
Let me tell you, I’m heading into my forties, and this is when you really start to see it. Some people Ive known since I was a kid still look like they’re in their twenties. Others could be mistaken for 60. Look after yourself. Teeth, sleep, sunscreen, all that good stuff.
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.
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.
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.
Thank you for your wisdom monkey man
Short term and long term are ill defined subjective entities, if my short term is long term enough I win.
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8 sleep? Yes. But what about naps, snoozes, dozing off, lucid dreaming, daydreaming, just resting my eyes, sleepwalking, wake sleeping, meditative trances and altered consciousness?
No
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.
Do people actually flex how much of less sleep they got? I never met anyone who do this.
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