Its not ideal, so I dont recommend it to anyone. It just so happens I am super tired after work, so I need to give my brain a rest. But because I’m sleeping so early (like 7pm - 9pm), I inevitably wake up during the late evening. Then i try not to waste the remainder of the evening and end up staying up late for math and programming. Programming is easy to stay up, math is hard to do consistently.

Then I sleep 3.30am or so to 8.30am, am cranky for the whole morning, but that is okay since I can do my work in autopilot most of the time.

The end result is I am definitely getting a solid few hours each day for my studies, whilst maintaining a job.

Many Thanks for the kind words. I felt I misjudged the purpose of this thread and did not want to sidetrack the conversation / steal the attention.

Also I feel like I am personally a better talker then doer, so I always get a bit of internal backlash within myself when I spend time talking about what I am doing vs doing it. In a similar vein, I need to reduce my addiction to Hacker News and use the time to study theorem proofs ;) But I think we all suffer from something similar :)