(Gilmore Girls fan site)Since I’ve been self-employed, my sleep schedule has gone everywhere. I’ve had a difficult time sticking to a regular sleep schedule. And I think it may be affecting my mood, too. I just get busy, and then I work late, later and later. And before I know it, I’m working nights and sleeping until 1 in the afternoon. And since I’m the boss, no one’s going to fire me for it.
I don’t know if there’s an answer, except to manage my time better. It’s funny, too, because I thought I was good at this. But I guess I have more to learn.
Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing? If you have to do late nights, how do you deal with the emotional effects of irregular sleep?
Update: If you’re interested in self-employment, you might get a blast out of my personal/professional blog: JTimothyKing.com/blog.
-TimK
Some of the people I work with also have messed up schedules, and I wonder if that throws mine off. For one project, I’m working with a virtual team of people across the country. And so one guy in California, if I sleep a normal schedule, I might be able to wake up and catch him before he goes to bed. That means he’s turning in at like 5 AM, his time. That’s probably because he has other projects, too, and is putting in lots of hours on them sometimes.
The last time my sleep got turned around, the only thing I could do was to keep going to bed later and later until I was sleeping a normal schedule again. That lasted a month or two. Ugh.
-TimK
hey!
I know how you feel!
I am not self-employed but I am a student, I am jugling college with trying to learn 3 new subjects to get ready for my exams for medical school. It’s crazy. I get so stressed that I just can’t sleep.
You raised a good question there on the emotional part, please contact me if you already have an answer 
! I just feel tired all day long, and due to lack of sleep I can’t even think straight! It’s crazy. I just hope it gets better.
I kinda think the solution is to separate that areas of your life like sarakastic said. So I am doing all my work in college and the office and leaving my room free to sleep. Watching some tv to distract you, also helps.
I hope our sleep problems fade away!
P.S-if anyone has good insomnia tips, feel free to contribute !
Sara.
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This happened to me too when
This happened to me too when I started working from home. I think it has to do with the fact that work never really goes away it’s always just staring at me. Plus it’s easier to edit websites when the rest of the country is sleepy & therefore not trying to visit my site. I’ve noticed that a lot of webmasters are insomniacs, but I don’t know which causes which. In my case, it evened out, & I was finally able to seperate myself from work. However, when something goes wrong, my sleep schedule gets messed up again. People know by now to just hang in there until I get back to normal. Wish I had a better solution