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A perfectly good morning is...
Dec. 8th, 2004 12:41 pm...wasted by spending it at work.
Really. Who designed this system? I wake up in the morning to an alarm clock and go to work, thereby spoiling a perfectly good morning. (Despite the implications of the Geek Code in my profile, this is not a perfectly good morning that I spend working on roleplaying game design, either. That would be a thoroughly acceptable way to spend the morning. Regrettably, cash-for-creativity is the night job rather than the day job.)
Would it not make more sense to go to work at one in the afternoon? That provides an appropriate amount of time for doing things in the morning, and then one goes off to work. At the end of one's day, it is nine at night, and one goes to sleep and gets as much sleep as one wants. How much productivity is lost to lack of sleep?
Of course, I've just described a second-shift job. I've never had one, and I hear from those who have that they really suck. All of my full-time jobs have been the regular eight-to-five. If the entire nation were on a standard one-to-nine, though, it might not be so bad.
I could rotate my own schedule, of course. That way, I'd be going to bed at six and getting up at... call it eight hours of sleep... two in the morning. That would give me a cool four hours of time to myself before having to go anywhere, and... this part is important... NO ALARM CLOCK.
But it would mean that I never saw my husband in my waking hours. And, as I did marry him, that would get rather old rather quickly. I mean, I am awfully fond of him.
But if he were awake from 2 AM to 6 PM, and if the shops and stores were open... how bad could it be? (Might not be so hot on biorhythms, but it would be the end of the alarm clock. That's the advantage that really sings to me.)
Oh, well. Think on it.
This is the Geek, signing out.
Really. Who designed this system? I wake up in the morning to an alarm clock and go to work, thereby spoiling a perfectly good morning. (Despite the implications of the Geek Code in my profile, this is not a perfectly good morning that I spend working on roleplaying game design, either. That would be a thoroughly acceptable way to spend the morning. Regrettably, cash-for-creativity is the night job rather than the day job.)
Would it not make more sense to go to work at one in the afternoon? That provides an appropriate amount of time for doing things in the morning, and then one goes off to work. At the end of one's day, it is nine at night, and one goes to sleep and gets as much sleep as one wants. How much productivity is lost to lack of sleep?
Of course, I've just described a second-shift job. I've never had one, and I hear from those who have that they really suck. All of my full-time jobs have been the regular eight-to-five. If the entire nation were on a standard one-to-nine, though, it might not be so bad.
I could rotate my own schedule, of course. That way, I'd be going to bed at six and getting up at... call it eight hours of sleep... two in the morning. That would give me a cool four hours of time to myself before having to go anywhere, and... this part is important... NO ALARM CLOCK.
But it would mean that I never saw my husband in my waking hours. And, as I did marry him, that would get rather old rather quickly. I mean, I am awfully fond of him.
But if he were awake from 2 AM to 6 PM, and if the shops and stores were open... how bad could it be? (Might not be so hot on biorhythms, but it would be the end of the alarm clock. That's the advantage that really sings to me.)
Oh, well. Think on it.
This is the Geek, signing out.
