Long hours and their effects

Narj

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What's the strangest thing doing silly hours/sleep derivation from work has done to you?

I had an odd spell last week where my arms felt like they were burning/in cramp and I kept zoning out doing the 5000 mile stare, also I kept hearing things. Considering the fact that my hands/fingers are quite important to me, I had a massive spaz which was fortunately proved to be nothing to worry about the next day when I felt completely normal.

Usually a long stint ends up in people thinking I'm drunk when I'm just tired. :/
 
After a really long stint I once went out to buy some food and coffee while working away and came back to my hotel room with some dry pasta, sauce and tinned sardines along with some ground coffee (not instant). Cue "WTF am I going to do with dry pasta, sauce, tinned fish and ground coffee in a ******* hotel room"
 
d_brennen said:
After a really long stint I once went out to buy some food and coffee while working away and came back to my hotel room with some dry pasta, sauce and tinned sardines along with some ground coffee (not instant). Cue "WTF am I going to do with dry pasta, sauce, tinned fish and ground coffee in a ******* hotel room"
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Hahaha! I remember doing 36 hours on Red Bull a few years back. I had to take a week off sick and almost had to call an ambulance thanks to feeling like a zombie and having what felt like palpitations. I also fell asleep several times in the bath that week which was scary in retrospect. :D
 
Not from work but the silly things sleep deprivation has made me do is being unable to distinguish real life from dreams (when I finally fall asleep after a long time awake). An example, last week I fell asleep at 6:30am, I had a dream I set the garden shed alight, I then woke up at 8am, jumped out of bed, ran straight downstairs and stared out of the window into the garden before realising what had just happened. This only happens when I deprive myself of sleep.

Sleep deprivation in general just results in me falling asleep at the most ridiculous times. On the bus, in college classes, sitting at the table. There has been a few incidents of people I know saying they saw my face glued to the bus window when they were walking and seen a bus go past.
 
Narj said:
When you are a money-grabbing, mercenary **** like me, it just happens sometimes.
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I get paid well enough working 37 hours a week to support my family, have a good life, shiny Apple gear and two or three holidays a year. The time with my wife, son and close family is priceless. Even at my overtime rate (nice!) it isn't worth working anymore hours.

So I work the hours I am paid and live a good life.
 
Never from working long hours but from being up pretty much 5 days straight with little sleep causes you to hallucinate, hear things and have the worst nightmares ever.

Seeing cartoons playing on your wardrobe when you close your eyes is not fun. Neither is the feeling of not wanting to fall asleep because the nightmares are too bad or fearing of another night of sleep paralysis

Arhhhhhh. Ibiza!
 
LordSplodge said:
So I work the hours I am paid and live a good life.
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I absolutely understand where you're coming from, and have no real need to do overtime but I can never turn down DT! I feel like they could stop it at any point so I just carry on. :)

I suppose that's "greed". :/

Back on topic... the line between reality and dream-world does become very blurred after so much sleep deprivation. Hallucinations can be mental, especially when you perceive one person to be someone completely different. :p Why the hell do we need sleep, anyways?
 
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long hours have too much of a bad effect and not enough positives for me to bother with. especially with 2 guys from work dieing in the last month , both far too young.

the moneys good but health is more valuable
 
When I'm starting to get tired or run down I sometimes find it difficult to start sentences and have to use certain words to help me spit the first bit out then I'm fine.

It's starting conversations that seem the hardest as I'll think about doing it before I actually say anything which leads to making it worse. It's also fine If I'm asked something or it's my turn to say something in a conversation once it's started.

Does get a bit annoying at times but I laugh it off rather than let it get to me though fortunately.
 
I think when I was at uni I had about 4 days where I didnt sleep. The lines between reality and dreams becomes so what blurred. I remmeber being really hungrey having probably not eaten for a while as well as no sleep. I was walking around to the local shop and it actually left like I was Mr soft from the soft mint adverts. Walking all floaty like.
 
LordSplodge said:
I get paid well enough working 37 hours a week to support my family, have a good life, shiny Apple gear and two or three holidays a year. The time with my wife, son and close family is priceless. Even at my overtime rate (nice!) it isn't worth working anymore hours.

So I work the hours I am paid and live a good life.
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+1. Im in the same boat apart from the family bit - I live alone.

I dont work a second longer than I have to. @ 17:00 Im outta there like a photon torpedo.

You just...cannot put a price on home-time..*your* time :)
 
Yes shift work and long hours is proven to increase your risk of cancer and heart disease and a few other things. It's quite bad for you.

Messes up your circadian rhythm and your hormones and melatonin and stuff like that.
 
I've fallen asleep during a very long shift post Glastonbury one year. Was doing night shift (after a double night/day shift) sat in car in front of a gate which lead to Micheal Eavis' farm house, there to stop gypo's moving onto the land during cleanup.
Fell asleep near sunrise only to be woken by tapping on the window by Eavis!
He was cool about it though, asleep or awake no one was getting in as land rover was in front of gate :)
 
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