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I am so drained from working 6 days a week for the past few weeks. most nights by 7 i am so outta the office because im too tired and i dont trust myself with numbers. but u hear about so many accountants who stay at the office till 1 or 2 am. i dont drink coffee but even with caffine can a person really be able to pull in so many hours at the office and still be able to think straight even with all the pressure and stress?? or maybe im in the wrong profession???
Some people can just go on auto-pilot. Not everyone. But men can be one dimensional and compartmentalize. They don’t necessarily think about ten different things and ten different tasks at the same time. So when they look at one tax return that is all that they see. While when you look at one tax return, your mind might wonder to 10 others,or a list of 10 other things you need to do.
im a high school student so i cant exactly tell you how working people pull off all nighters but i can tell you that when i was studying for my chemistry regent lastyear which one month before the regent i hardly knew anything, i stayed up ENTIRE nights studying. i studied till around 5:30AM then rested for a half hour or hour then went to yeshiva, and functioned pretty decent in shiur with 1 or 2 coffees. i did this a couple times and other nights i studied till 1 or 2 am easily. THE fact of the matter is: if you know you have to do something YOU DO IT! baruch hashem by hard studying paid off, i got highest mark in my grade! agav, this year i got a little or alot addicted to coffee and sometimes have like 5-7 coffees a day.
I’m not a CPA, but, there was a time I worked the 4pm to midnight shift followed by 75 minute commute home, and still had to be awake by 6:30 for carpool duties. I lived on my 5 hours sleep, normal meals, a cup of coffee in the morning and one in the afternnon and at least a 45 minute catnap on the commute in each direction. After 2 weeks or so, my body became accustomed to the routine.
1:00am is not an all nighter. An all nighter is when you take a car home from the office at 6:00am shower and daven and then head off to a client. When the work has to get done, it get done. At some point the law of diminishing returns applies, but if there is a deadline, you do what you have to do.
Sleep? What’s that?
car home from the office at 6:00am shower and daven
Showering is a waste of time in such circumstances. Davening is mandatory, but why waste time on anything else when you could be doing more precious workeee. Tralala.
I used to do all-nighters at work, back when I was young, single, and had the energy. I usually worked from 4 a.m. to 9 or 10 p.m., five days a week, and from about 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. I was hourly, and cleared much more than my boss, who was salaried. I was working for a food wholesaler, and we were moving from an old computer system to a new one. There were occasions when we stayed all night; I’d go home for an hour or two around 5 p.m., and return with clean clothes and food for the next day.
“1:00am is not an all nighter.”
These days, anything after 10:30pm is an all nighter for me. 🙂
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