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Offline Neubob

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« on: August 28, 2006, 03:33:16 PM »
And I'm about to take one.

thoughts?

Offline fuzeman

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« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2006, 03:37:01 PM »
I'll have to think about this for awhile.

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« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2006, 03:38:21 PM »
Their better when you sick.
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« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2006, 06:15:15 PM »
I take what I call power naps everyday at work during my lunch break. I get 45 min for lunch and I soundly sleep 20 to 25 min of it. I've done it enough I can fall asleep in less than a minute and wake up the same time each time.

I really miss my naps when I can't take them. They really do seem to recharge the batteries.
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« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2006, 06:34:46 PM »
Back when I was younger, a nap would wreck me...I wouldnt be able to sleep all night later on.  It was like I plucked an hour from my regular night time sleep.

Now that the body has gone beyond 30...oye!  Grab em when you can!

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« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2006, 07:31:03 PM »
the spanish might still have the "siesta"  I'm not sure.  taking off two hours in the middle of the day to eat, relax & maybe nap is a wonderful thing. naps get a :aok from me.

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« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2006, 07:44:00 PM »
I'm awake now. Should have stayed asleep.

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« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2006, 07:44:51 PM »
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Originally posted by Neubob
And I'm about to take one.

thoughts?


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« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2006, 08:40:45 PM »
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Naps rule, I wish I could take naps

Offline Nightshift82

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« Reply #9 on: August 29, 2006, 08:23:27 AM »
mmmmm......naps...........wor k sucks.....naps rule
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« Reply #10 on: August 29, 2006, 11:03:54 AM »
I wish there was some way to recover the nap time that I wasted as a kid. Now a nap is more precious to me than gold. At present I can put my head down at any time of the day and be asleep within 5 minutes, with any amount of caffeine on board.

For instance, last month I was driving home dog tired from Charlotte after a committee meeting and I had to drink 2 cans of Red Bull just to keep relatively aware and awake. I finished the last one not 15 minutes before pulling into the driveway, and managed to go to sleep 10 minutes after that.

So yeah, naps are good.

Maybe I can arrange to buy some of that free time Meatwad says he has a  surplus of. ;)
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« Reply #11 on: August 29, 2006, 11:37:32 AM »
Never had any use for them for as long as I can remember. Different strokes....

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« Reply #12 on: August 29, 2006, 11:46:23 AM »
I'm Spanish and I get my daily siesta. I go home at 2 PM, have lunch, sleep about 30-40 minutes, then back to work at 4 PM. I can do this because it just takes about 15 minutes to get home from my office. Commuters working in the big cities can't afford to do that anymore, so they have more standard schedules.

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« Reply #13 on: August 29, 2006, 03:30:17 PM »
Interesting Takeda...what time do you start and finish your workday? Maybe time to move to Spain. :)

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« Reply #14 on: August 29, 2006, 04:05:45 PM »
It's a bit complex, i'll explain:
I have to clock 35 hours a week, 9 AM to 2 PM monday-friday are mandatory, then at least 8 of the rest have to be in the afternoon (between 4 and 8 PM) whenever I choose to do them. I usually work 8:00 AM - 2 PM daily, then 4 to 8 PM mondays and tuesdays. Some weeks i'll do 4-6 PM from monday to thursday instead.
That means I give away a couple of hours each week, but I like my job well enough and that helps in keeping HR off my back when I need some leeway, because they always owe me once they go through the records.
I have a ton of holidays too.

That fits well our eating patterns: very light breakfast, a coffee and a small treat around 11 PM, the heaviest meal of the day at 2:30, then "merienda" about 6 PM, dinner at 9PM

Most spaniards work closer to a 40 hour week with a similar schedule to mine in small towns, but as I said that's not possible in Madrid or Barcelona, where people work more like 8AM to 4:30PM and eat at work. People complain if they are forced to follow the traditional schedule in those big cities.

And then there's unpaid overtime and crappy work conditions too. I used to put 50-60 hours/week in an internet boom era meatgrinder before I landed my current cushy position.

If you are really thinking about moving, bear in mind that our salaries are pretty much stuck in the crappy zone, while our prices are going all european since the introduction of the Euro. :(