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Sleep, Caffeine and your daily schedule? poll

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I've always been fascinated by the amount of sleep and caffeine that keeps people functioning and productive.

I think it would be cool to see:

What is your profession?

On average how many hours a day of sleep do you get? What times do you usually sleep?

How many hours of sleep do you feel you need to work optimally?

How many days a week do you usually consume caffeine?

On the days that caffeine is consumed how much and when is it usually consumed?

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- Software Engineer

- ~8.5 hours

- sleep from 10pm - 6:30am

- ~9 hours for optimal

- Every couple weeks will go on caffeine binges where I drink it ~3 - 4 x s per week

- On the days I consume caffeinie I Drink large 20 oz cups of coffee (sometimes multiple), try to get my caffeine in early because I am hyper sensitive to it, and it will keep me up all night:)

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- Software Engineer

- ~6.5 hours from 1:00am - 7:30am (with occasional ups and downs)

- ~7.5 hours for optimal

- Every workday ~2-3 cups, 0-1 cup on weekend days.

- Rarely after noon. I am an owlish kind of person, so I naturally stay late at night[1]. But if you want my brain to do anything at all before ~10:00am, you have to provide: 1. Double Espresso, no sugar. 2. Very detailed instructions.

[1] No, going to bed early does not work. I can sleep before 11pm, specially if I am tired, but if I try to wake up before 7am I will be like a zombie all morning, and feel like crap by sunset.

- BPM software deployment

- 5,5 - 8 hours - if there is less then 7 h I usually have to take a short nap in the evening to keep me going until bedtime

- usually I sleep from 11:00 pm till 6:30am, almost every other day I jog 6 to 12 km before going to bed, I work out in the mornings every single day for about 30 minutes

- 8,5 hours is optimal, (meaning that if I am not exhausted and I sleep uninterrupted I'd wake up naturally after 8,5 hours). Btw: ear plugs really make me sleep deeper and wake up better rested.

- I've never drunk coffee in my life, but I consume loads of caffeine in teas and yerba mate, I try to cut the intake to about 5 servings a day but when I'm at home the entire day I drink one after another like a chain smoker. I don't think a coup of strong black tea in the evening would have any effect on me. I also can't see any effects on my performance if I don't drink tea at all.

I'm 28.

- Software Support Engineer / QA Analyst / Documentation Specialist

- ~8.5 hours

- Sleep: 11:30 PM-12:00 AM - Awake: 8:00 AM

- Caffeine: 2 cups of coffee per day. One 8 oz mug of French Pressed coffee at 9:15 AM, a second around 3:30 - 4:00 PM.

- Occasional: Sometimes have an 8oz Coke with dinner (tiny cans), and/or a cup of tea around 9 PM as well. Typically green or jasmine.

- Software Engineer

- 8 hours

- 3am - 11am

- 8 hours feels about optimal

- Normally don't drink caffeine at all.

- I avoid caffeine until I need it. (during the last week or so of a sprint). During that time I'm probably averaging 3-4 hours of sleep a night, and drinking 3-4 teas and 1-2 redbulls per day, all day/night long.

- Acquisition Marketing

- Ideal: 8 hours: 11pm - 7:30am

- Normal: 6.5 hours: 12:30pm - 7:00am

- Weekday caffeine: typically tea in morning and coffee after lunch. A couple days a week will have meeting coffee. Typically one coffee a day on weekends.

- Developer

- ~9 hours, 01am-10am

- 8 hours

- 7

- 3-4 espresso total 2-3 times a day

Just read "Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us", some interesting stuff on global caffeine consumption there.

- 24 years old

- Software Engineer

- 8 hours

- 11pm - 7am

- around 9 hours optimal

- Diet soft drink only (~2 standard 335ml cans per day), very rarely coffee or tea, no energy drinks

- Software Engineer

- 7-9 hours

- sleep from 10pm - 6:30am

- 8 hours for optimal

- 1-2 medium coffees per week when I need it most. I do this so my body does not get use to the caffeine.

- Digital Strategist/Analyst - ~7.5 hours, 1am to 8:30am - 6 days - 1 chai in the morning or soda in the afternoon

- Graduate Student

- 12am-1am to 8:15am

- 6-7 hours

- 4-5 days of the week

- 1-2 cups of coffee when I drink it

Software Engineer:

Awake 6am, Sleep 11pm, typically get 5-6 hours per night. Caffeine, 1 cup of tea in the morning. Usually green.

- Financial Analyst

- ~6 hours

- sleep from 12 - 6 AM

- ~two to three cups a day.

- 21 years old.

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