Do you have to sleep a lot while when you have a job?

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Hey everyone, just wondering how people react to stressful jobs, working part-time or full-time.

Do you sleep more when you have worked that day? I'm trying to figure out if this is due to be tired from my job or an underlying health thing. I work as a line cook at a busy restaurant and the work is sometimes very physically exhausting, plus I work with other people that I do try to socialize with to my best ability and I come home from work and sleep the next 10-12 hours to recover.

I actually scheduled myself a mini-vacation at the end of the month with the hope to recharge.

I would believe the social aspect of your job is what might be exhausting for you as well as having to deal with everything moving so quickly. I know from working some jobs that required some sort of social skills and quick thinking in the past to have exhausted me more than working a physical labour type job. But that is just me.

I work as a software developer and have people around me a lot of the time. When I come home I'm usually very tired. So yeah, I think it's an aspie thing.

I'm considering to try to sleep a couple of hours after I get home. I get home really early so if I go to sleep for 3-4 hours it'll still just be 20.00 ( or 8 pm. ) And the I could possibly stay up to midnight or something.

I tend to sleep a lot when I have mental stress at work. I can easily sleep for 12 or so hours a day when I am stressed. So, I have a feeling that the same thing is happening to you. Probably even if socializing is not really outright stressful, still it must be tiring you out. This is just my guess.

But your physical movement at work may also well explain your long sleep. That would probably be a rather healthy thing, I think.

Just in case there is some undetected health problem, you might want to get your blood etc tested. But if you feel healthy at other times such as during the weekend (or whenever you are off work), then maybe you don't need to worry about it. Just my opinion.

I'm a teacher, and working is certainly exhausting. I find I can't do much when I get off besides sit and veg out until bed, otherwise I get overloaded and panicky and can't sleep. I asked my doctor (who specializes in Autism) what I can do to try to get my stamina up so I can handle running errands or doing housework after work, but he thinks there is no way around needing the downtime, and that I should adjust my schedule around it. This has proven difficult, but now at least I don't feel so lazy for neglecting life activities after work...

I need a lot more sleep than most of the NTs that I know (ten hours if I can get it) and I need it even more when I am working. I have a job that involves a lot of personal interaction and when I get home, I'm exhausted just from stress.

When I worked in retail (and was stuck with the 7-4 shift) I used to be so tired I would get supper, go to bed at 5:30pm and not wake up until 11:00am or later the next day without opening my eyes once. Considering I'm a light sleeper thats how tired I got.

The time I had a part time job I was so exhausted that it seemed like I did almost nothing but work and sleep.

When I have a job, I do tend to have more shutdowns, which leads to more sleep.

When I have a job I always feel more tired. After two years of working full time in retail (and having to commute at least two hours a day), I was a mess. I spent my entire weekend recovering, but it was never quite enough before the next five-day stint of hell began. I slowly deteriorated until I could no longer cope with work at all. Working part time, four days a week, in a job with very little customer service was better. Even still, I struggled with it and had very little energy to do anything after work.

Now I have another job that is still so new it's causing me anxiety. So I vacillate between sleeping 10 hours a night and not being able to sleep much at all.

That is one reason (but not the only reason) I don't want to work. For me working would mean I'd spend all my time doing something I hate and sleeping, almost never able to even do anything I enjoy.

yeah for me the more i am around other people or when i worked the more i sleep.

For the 5-6 or so year i was a butcher. it was pretty much up at 05.00 and get to work at 07.00 then off work at 15:30 then home by 16:30, then get something to eat, then sleep from 17:30 to 05:00.

It drains my mental energies to be around others, i can easily do 12-16 hours of sleep, i get a huge headache, and get like ive been out drinking.. Its like my mind is few steps behind modern people, normal people go crazy if they are alone, i go crazy if im around other people to much and their constant talking.

Don't really have a choice in the matter, Hanyo, it's good that you do. Not many people enjoy their work.

I work a split week, I don't like working at my job for five straight days. If I had two days off in a row I would be bored. Funny how weekends started, most people are willing to work five days in a row to get two days off in a row. I was offered that in my job, but I declined it. Working five days there in a row wasn't the only reason, but it was a big one.

I have noticed that I only sleep and work when I have a job, but I'd rather have the money than not have it.

i only need 6 hours of sleep to function and it has always been like that in my whole entire life.

I actually sleep more when I don't have to go to work.