What's harder is accepting the lifestyle shift needed so that you get enough sleep.
It can be hard going trying to get to sleep around 8-9 pm every night if the area you live is noisy.
YMMV ........

softlips wrote:brynpoeth wrote:softlips wrote:Work in medicine so lots of unsocial unpredictable hours. Today should have been 05:00 till around 15:00 but will now be until 22:30.
You just get used to it.
Surely one cannae think properly and makes mistakes if one works so long
Done 15 hrs today. You get used to it sadly.
Mick F wrote:Many years ago on exercise in the far north Atlantic for a few weeks in Oct/Nov, we worked a shift pattern of six on, six off.
On watch at 6am and off at noon, then back on at 6pm an off at midnight for day after day after week after week.
........... or the opposite watch was on at noon, off at 6pm and back on at midnight until 6am ...................
You get the picture.
Not much in way of daylight, and "breakfast" was on at the same time as an "evening meal". The whole ship was in this routine and it was horrible and at the same time interesting and memorable and sort of enjoyable.
After a few "days" you forgot if it was 0600 or 1800, or 1200 or 2359.
Weird.
Scottish cavepeople wouldn't wake up in the winter!brynpoeth wrote:Cavepeople went to sleep when the sun went down, we should try to do likewise
SimonCelsa wrote:Why on Earth would getting up early damage your health???
axel_knutt wrote:SimonCelsa wrote:Why on Earth would getting up early damage your health???
The World Health Organisation has classed any form of night-time shift work as a probable carcinogen
Nothing more up to date than this from August.brynpoeth wrote:I should like to be reincarnated as Sailor, please to post up-to-date pictures
Mick F wrote:Scottish cavepeople wouldn't wake up in the winter!brynpoeth wrote:Cavepeople went to sleep when the sun went down, we should try to do likewise
If I could be reincarnated, I'd like to come back as a grizzly bear.
Top of the food-chain, protected species ................... and best of all, I could gorge on wild salmon and berries, then sleep for the whole winter.
What's not to like?