Circadian Sleep Disorders Network is a new non-profit organization promoting awareness, accommodation, support and research for the Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders and their sufferers. The website (under construction) is at http://www.circadiansleepdisorders.org (shortcut: csd-n.org).

Those affected by DSPS (aka DSPD, Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder) are welcome to join.

Instead, for the past few years I have been learning how to make money online. I also just started up an Online Reputation Management business. I am doing this to break away from the “normal people” schedule and live my life the way I want it. I am going to embrace DSPS. The only thing I don’t think I can help is the lack of accomplishment. Even if I get things done I still feel like I always have so much to do and so little time.

Hopefully once I’m done school and begin to make a career out of what I’m doing that will go away. I sure hope so.

Also, I really, REALLY agree on how annoying it is when people call you lazy. I’ve been getting called lazy (upon other names I won’t mention for the sake of keeping this post clean) for as long as I can remember. Friends don’t understand. In fact, NOBODY understands. They all say “It’s not that hard to wake up man everyone has to do it. Just get up”. The truth is I almost physically cannot wake up before 2PM, and usually get up much later than that. It would help me feel a lot better if people could just understand what it feels like feeling immobile in the morning, even when I have an exam to write. I have failed courses due to DSPS because of missing exams or missing almost every class. Do people know what it feels like when you’ve worked hard an entire semester and fail the class because you missed one exam? I’m not a softy but it’s times like that I almost burst out crying wishing I could go back in time and write the exam I could pass in a heart beat.

Sorry for the long rant I just really needed to get this off my chest. If anyone needs a DSPS buddy feel free to email me at x_-f8-_x@hotmail.com.

Cheers,
Brad

I’m definitely not being constructive. There are certainly aspects that would potentially prevent one from taking on such risks. I’m young comparatively speaking still. I don’t have a family or any children who depend on me.

I still suspect that would change much if I did though.

In any case I’m quite frankly not sure what well paying positions one might get working nights. If you aren’t wiling to be an enterprising individual then you are quite frankly stuck I think in a low pay and boring job.

Night man? Do those still exist?
Warehouse worker
Fast food
Bartender
24/7 grocery store
Translator? Think that would require an enterprising spirit and unique skill

The trust is we can’t really recommend anything to this person because we don’t know what skills they have…

Entrepreneurship requires a mindset and a personality that not everyone has. If everyone did, how would anything get done? Being an employee is a completely valid and fulfilling choice to make in life, and there should be no shortage of options and opportunities for anyone who chooses that route.

I think better advice would be to suggest jobs that can be done at night or on a flexible schedule. Forget trying to start a business if the conditions are not suitable for it.

It is hard to see how people can complain and then not fight for themselves. I shouldn’t blame you for your own problems. I can only blame you for not having the desire to conquer them. Even that I can’t really blame you for. We can’t blame anybody for anything. We should all sit back and let the government feed us, clothe us, bathe us.

You want to have it easy. You want to work for someone else. You don’t want to take any risks. You just want the rewards. You might actually excel at something after all if you did take some chances.

I’m all for a little cushioning. But come on. Step up and take some risk. Really. I won’t blame you for not wanting to do these things, but come on. I don’t want to work either.

Out of college I was offered a nice salary from a company that I had Interned for two years earlier. You know what I did? I told them I’d take it on the condition they offered me slightly more. I had already been offered more than I was honestly worth… yet. I turned it down over a few grand.

What is the life lesson here? TAKE SOME RISK! I’m 27, five years out of school, four years having started a competing operation, and now own a successful company.

The company I was going to work for at its height was worth about 20 million US dollars with about 70 employees. In comparison we are only 1/70th the size although steadily growing. The market potential is huge. Most of my competitors are billion dollar operations.

Yea- so take some stinking risk already.

Excuse me? I am not a lazy person! And I never said that being an entrepreneur was easy. In fact I said I wasn’t one. I’m not in a position to attempt to be so at this time.

Entrepreneur is defined as being:

1) A person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on financial risk to do so.
2) A promoter in the entertainment industry.

We are not all of us built the same. Not all of us have the means or desire to risk what security they do have to start their own business. This does not make me lazy. That is a rather blanket statement about someone you know nothing about. I work very hard. I don’t mind working for someone else. I simply wish it could be during hours in which I function at my best.

Next time please try not to be so condescending.

:)

I know how hard it is. Especially when these people are your survival.