Looking back now (mid forties)- it eventually takes it toll on you. The continuous stress kills your adrenal glands. One day your body and mind just say "enough is fucking enough"- and then it shuts down on you.
Anybody there yet?
i am pretty much there!
i have worked odd shift and night work on and off for the last 10 years. i regularly wake up friday afternoon and do not go to sleep again until saturday night. then on monday wake up in the morning and i will not go back to bed till tuesday morning. i am trying to get more sleep in but its hard with a young one in the house and my job.
also when i was young and cool i used to stay up for 48 hours on the weekends at least once a month. go out friday night till 8am eat breakfast train legs and then spend the rest of the chasing girls, then party all night again and sleep and watch tv on sundays.
i can't believe some people can remember specific incidences where they did not sleep for 24+ hours, but i am kind of jealous.