lack of sleep threshold and loosening it quick:-(

[flynn_gabriel]

So I work for myself doing property clean ups, moving people, scrapping metal, hauling cars and stuff for people, fixing cars.(scrap metal is the only constant in above said work). I also work for other people. I deliver newspapers, twice a week I haul a 10 yard dump trailer full of household trash to the dump for one of my clients who owns an apartment complex, I work for another guy ripping out old carpet and padding from Freddie mac and Fannie may homes and haul the old stuff to the dump. On top of that all I take my daughter to and from school, tend to the garden do work around the house, etc (My NT wife works full time). There is a 25 yo who works for me, he is always by my side through it all.(I have balance issues and to keep him out of trouble and off of drugs). Now while it might seem like there's no time for me to sleep we have a system worked out in which I can sleep here and there between things. When I'm sleeping, Cody is preping metal for the scrapyard. Sometimes he goes and gets my daughter from school for me. Etc.
I talked about all of that to describe how important my truck is to me and my system...... Well it broke down took 2 weeks to get all the parts in and up and rolling again. I took a job cleaning a 3 acre property 2 days before my truck went down......they have to be off of the property by the 21st of this month. I finally got my truck up and going and we hit the ground running! We've almost got the property done as of today we hauled 8380 pounds of trash in 3 days.
During the whole 2 weeks the truck was down and now that its back up again I've been only getting about 3-4 hours of sleep a night. About 2 and a half weeks is my breaking point, I'm starting to crack and lose it. So what's your threshold?

 

[Kari Suttle]

I start to get a irritable and fog-brained on five hours of sleep. On 3-4 i can barely get through the day, i'm lethargic, and i am guarenteed to have some form of a breakdown that day. On a week of little sleep each night i end up getting depressed pretty quickly. So i definetally need my sleep even if i don't always get it.

 

[DogwoodTree]

Just gotta say...I admire your tenacity. Sounds like a lot of obstacles all at one time, but you're pulling through.

For me, anything less than 5 hours and I struggle to get through the day. However, I can stay at 5-6 hours/night for a week or two before I start feeling the pressure to do some catch-up sleep. It helps if I can pick which 5-6 hours I sleep. So if I can stay up until 3 or 4 am and then sleep in until 9 or 10, that works a whole lot better for me than, say, sleeping 10pm to 4am. And if I can get in 1-2 really good nights' sleep per week, I can go on 6 hrs/night the rest of the week for quite a long time...several months.

 

[AsheSkyler]

Sounds fun. I always enjoyed physical jobs, even though I didn't have the strength to keep up too well.

I do not like getting 6 hours or less. I can teeter on 6 hours for quite a while, but after a week or so I need to get a few more hours in. If it drops below 6, I'm grouchy and not functioning well.

 

[HappyHermit]

I would really need at least 7 hours to function well.

Four days a week I only get about 4 to 5 because I don't sleep well at all on work nights. It makes me feel like a zombie in no time flat, and I can only really deal with the bare necessities of anything on those days.

I usually sleep like a log for about 12 hours the night after my four-day work week and normally - about 8 hours a night - at the weekend.

 

[Judge]

Recently I've pretty much come to the conclusion that it's in my best interest to maintain the same sleep pattern at least 6 days a week and definitely shoot for 8 hours or no less than 7.5. Just plain getting old I suppose.

 

[flynn_gabriel]

thank you dogwoodtree. I'm the oldest of 7, our dad ingrained it into us. The day after I graduated from high school( which was a miracle). I went to work, and have always worked since. Its all I know.