u/IGNSolar7

For a few reasons, I've been out of work for years, primarily a major health issue. The secondary issue is that I had major burnout in the industry, and pretty much swore I'd never do this kind of role again.

It's a high-stress, "fast-paced," long-hour career. Likely looking at late nights, weekend work, and always meeting the demands of clients... not to mention a long commute, like an hour or more in my car each way after a 9+ hour workday. I never found the work satisfying, and stress was killing me. There was never a calm period.

But, I'd probably be their ideal candidate, could call in a favor from someone of influence, require little-to-no training, and... money is needed.

Any suggestions?

Edit: Per a suggestion, this would be a major career job that I'd need to stick with, not a garbage filler job. I'd need to ask favors and be there for a while. It could impact my overall perception in the market if I left too fast.

My sleep schedule's been off lately, so I'm up at like 4:30 AM or so a fair bit. I've been losing my mind with it. No one's awake to talk to, there's nothing on TV like sports, just morning traffic news or whatever. I'm just rotting and watching Family Guy, wishing the day would get going and people would get up.

Any tips for making this time of day (kinda feels like night) enjoyable?

Sitting here after getting 3-4 hours of sleep, trying to manage to make it until like 10 PM tonight, I'm dying. I see some people who claim they function off of like 5-6 hours a night, and I can't fathom it. I operate optimally off of like 9 hours of sleep (I'll take 10 if I can), do okay on 8, can function on 7 if the rest of my week went alright, but under that, I'm dead.

I went for a bit of a walk, drank a sugar free Red Bull, showered and my body is screaming at me to get back to sleep. Thankfully I don't have anything of major importance to do today, but I can't function or even enjoy watching anything.

My diet's not the best, but not the worst (no sweets and no soda for me, but primarily eat out or prepared meals), and I'm a little overweight by BMI, but nothing crazy. I do drink, but whether or not I drink, the same rules apply. I know I should get in the gym. But there's a lot of people out there in worse shape, and my blood test results are pretty much fine whenever I go in.

Is this just normal with aging, or am I an outlier?