And what’s your routine like?
I’m the kind of worker who prioritizes life over work. So that means I care about having light schedules if I know when it’s suitable and if my expenses can still be met which currently, I’m in the hole on that. If I can get away with using as much PPTO/PTO/Sick days as possible, I’ll do it. If I can afford to take points while balancing my expenses, I’ll do that too and have done that.
I typically work nights and I like working nights in nearly all of the jobs I’ve been in when available. I can’t stand morning and day shifts because it takes me a little longer to get warmed up during the morning and day. I actually used to have burned through mornings by sleeping through them.
But on my off days I do try to make up for some sleep at nights.
I don’t know where you stand in life, but I do know what it means to be hungry and literally have no money to buy food.
I was unemployed without any visible path forward long enough to think it’d be permanent.
I cleaned dishes in a restaurant, worked as ranch hand for a bed in a tent and whatever meat I could hunt, cleared the trash out of houses whose owners had died, delivered packages and mail on my own bicycle for less than minimum wage, and literally wiped old people’s asses in a nursing home.
5 years ago, I was just a day away from becoming homeless.
1 year ago, I still couldn’t make ends meet, while living in a moldy apartment, with no car, and wearing thrifted clothes.
Believe me, I know what it means to be where I am now, and I’m paying it forward best I can.