How Tired Are You At The End of the Day?

[Davit2005]

I normally find sitting down watching TV or a film sends me to sleep unless I'm really into what I'm watching. Hence why I have such a complex network at home, most of the time I'd like to be sitting at my computer doing things rather than falling asleep after dinner. I've never fallen asleep at work even after doing a 20mile run before work.

 

I also get up at 5:00 am due to painful commute if I leave any later than 6am. I do try to get to bed 9pm if possible although never go straight to sleep.

 

3 Mornings a week I go for a run even 6:30 Sunday morning, every morning I have toast and a cup of decaf, herbal or ginger tea. When I run early I just have a banana.

 

I'm pushing dangerously close to 50 years young, diet and sleep can never be under estimated but if you are concerned anything health wise see yr doc.

Edited May 2, 2018 by Davit2005

[ShellfishClive]

Depends on my day it's weird though, if I have a moderately busy day then I am fine at when I go home. If I have a really slow day I get super tired because I am just bored and if I have a super busy day then it's a mixture. As long as I have something to do, I don't get tired.

[MartinT]

I'm a morning person and get up at 04:40 to beat the M3 traffic and get to work at around 05:40 for a 2-hour window where I can update servers etc. without the staff bothering me. By 16:00 I'm knackered and do not enjoy the 50-60 min journey home through heavy traffic.

 

I wake up somewhat in the evenings and value my personal time until I go to bed at 22:00. Weekends I have more of a lie-in, until 09:00 or so!

[bald_pig]

I'm tired in the mornings, I'm tired on the way home, but once I'm home I'm usually awake until 11-12pm

[unixman_again]

I think I'm getting old now then, I am 31 now - when I finish work at 4pm usually I am too tired to do anything else such as clean my car etc, all i want to do is chill out at the computer. even going for a drive is cba.

I remember 10 years ago when i just started at the job, i'd finish at 4pm then go down the beach for a swim, then going cycling afterwards... couldn't do that now.

maybe it's just this winter weather and when the sun comes out i won't be "Low Energy" anymore ?

 

I wonder what you'll be like in another 30 years? I'm 61 and I might be tired at the end of the day, but straight after work, I go to the gym twice a week, do ballet class twice a week and a yoga class. I find ballet really perks me up, so I'm not tired when I get home. Gym on the other hand completely wrecks me; 100 pullups and dips is exhausting!

[Andrew_C]

Depends. Manic days, and REALLY dull days leave me drained. Otherwise OK most of the time.

[AMLinington]

Physically, my work is not demanding. I don't work particularly long hours either. But an hour and half commute each way in solid stop-start-traffic drains me. When I get home I just want to crawl into bed and pull the duvet over my head. Instead I have to deal with my neighbours and pretend to be functional when LeHusband gets home.

[Mewdewgooboofoo]

end of the working day im wide awake.

its in a morning i wake up feeling like i need to go sleep more.

[googlemad]

Presumably you have tried the brain training thing? In your case it would be NOT having any sort of nap, going to bed at the same time every day, and waking up at the same time every day - yes, even at weekends. Yes, there will be disruption to begin with, but if you really stick with it your brain will be retrained to sleep properly at night.

It isnt really surprising with your present regimen that you dont go to sleep before 2.00am - you've had two naps!

 

I'm going to try a couple of things in May as the train timetable to work changes to the extent I will have to catch the hour earlier service, which obviously means waking up an hour earlier too!

 

Just to throw a spanner in the works with my job I have to cover about 1 week in every 6 doing on call, so I struggle to sleep well during those weeks in particular as I'm so paranoid the phone is going to go off! Although I've learnt to control that slightly now by telling myself I don't need to answer it the second it rings, they can always leave a voicemail and I can ring back within the hour.

[elsiegee40]

I'm going to try a couple of things in May as the train timetable to work changes to the extent I will have to catch the hour earlier service, which obviously means waking up an hour earlier too!

 

Just to throw a spanner in the works with my job I have to cover about 1 week in every 6 doing on call, so I struggle to sleep well during those weeks in particular as I'm so paranoid the phone is going to go off! Although I've learnt to control that slightly now by telling myself I don't need to answer it the second it rings, they can always leave a voicemail and I can ring back within the hour.

 

I hated those on call weeks too. I did them on much the same cycle in the 1980s & 90s. I had a pager then and had to call in when it went off.

 

I had one one week in 6 where I didn’t touch alcohol as a call could mean I had to drive in (no remoting in those days) and I went to bed at 10pm every night. It is was probably pretty good for me.

 

I got used to it. The pager never failed to rouse me from my sleep. It never failed to rouse me when a low battery made it bleep even when I wasn’t on call, but that’s another story

 

Don’t stay up late during on call weeks. Treat them as selfish “me” weeks when your priority is you and getting sleep. You can turn them to your advantage.