RS>> And I dont believe the claim on health even with shift work.
 RS>> You can in fact make a case that someone who naturally prefers
 RS>> to go to bed after midnight and get up sometime around midday
 RS>> and who works say starting at 1pm thru till say 9pm may very
 RS>> well find that better for his health than being forced to get
 RS>> up at say 7am when thats not his natural habit.

 RG> I've been this way for as long as I can remember (well, at
 RG> least 25 years), and MANY of my jobs were afternoon/nightshift
 RG> for this very reason. I used to consider it a 'joke' that not
 RG> only did I get to work the hours I prefered, but I actually got
 RG> paid more for doing it. I would have gladly worked the same
 RG> hours for the same (or even less) pay than my dayshift
 RG> counterparts... 

  I am the reverse... I am a morning person who is dangerous around
electrical equipment after 9:30PM. My brain just shits down after
9:30. I wake up with ideas bubbling...

  I read once that humanity splits fairly evenly into morning and
evening people. It is important to know which you are. I'm useless
working overtime... unless I get up early and work the time upfront.
In the early days of colour TV, Channel 10 transmitted full colour at
3AM secretly and the entire lab had to get up early. I was obvious
which of us were the morning people... the others kept electrocuting
themselves.

 RS>> Pigs arse I havent, some people PREFER to work those hours for
 RS>> a variety of reasons, like the child care one I mentioned.

 KR> yep, probably ammounts to at least 0.5% of the population.

 RG> I agree that we would be in the minority, but I doubt that it
 RG> would be as low as 0.5%

  The article I read is long gone, but they were stating a fairly even
split. You only have to look at the times on the messages in AVT. Paul
and Roy and Brenton are working in the early hours (and so is keith,
for that matter). If I tried to type at midnight, I'd probably smash
the keyboard or fall asleep.

  What goes first is my creativity and common sense. When I'm psyched
up to create, I just naturally get up earlier. The silly part is that
evening people force it during the day, instead of rearranging their
schedule for optimum.

Regards,
Bob
  

Regards,
Bob
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