• Krauerking@lemy.lolOP
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    1 day ago

    Yeah. Wednesday and Saturday.

    I worked as a telemarketer from midnight to 8am as one of the jobs and the days I had off were sleep in the middle of the week and so I could have Friday nights to hang with friends.

    Definitely do not recommend it, I cried a lot at that time and the lack of sleep was not good and I think it left me with permanent insomnia.

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      Damn that’s nuts. I worked 96 hours a week (5 8 hour shifts at one job and 7 8 hour shifts at another) for a while when I was younger and I was only sleeping 2-3 hours a day on the five overlap days. That wasn’t sustainable at all and burned me out in six months or so. Clearly you were doing even more, I’m shocked you lived. I hope things are better for you now.

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        I could only last qbout 8 months doing it all. I kinda didnt survive it. Really changed who I was yet again in my life. But yeah I just got on a boat and sailed away from it all. Worked somewhere that gave me food housing and a routine till I could get better and I would say I am and things are. Thank you. Fuck lack of sleep.

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          10 hours ago

          Glad to hear your doing better at least. In my case, I had lost nearly everything I owned due to a catastrophe, so I was just trying to grind my way to being able to have a normal, if not poor life again. Luckily I was able to find an apartment that had a “$200 moves you in!” promotion, and I had roughly $200 to my name so I avoided actual homelessness.

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      1 day ago

      I was a teenager when internet chat rooms were first invented.

      I have insomnia now, yeah. Oops…

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        I am on the fence as to whether it was better to get paid to fuck up my sleep schedule or to have done it for the thrill of the AOL.

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        Anxiety attacks and shortness of breath but nope, no heart attacks. Also horrible depression kicked in at some point.

        Did get in lots of physical accidents which I partially attribute to the tiredness. After 8 months of that I quit as a christmas present to myself after almost drowning in a bathtub.