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    I've had a messed up sleep schedule for ages, and between my cam schedule and personal schedule I've been feeling exhausted all the time lately. I cam in two shifts: once in the morning, and once in the evening/night. I'm finding that after my night shift I am way too wound up to go to sleep right away and it's becoming more and more difficult for me to get enough rest at night to cam in the mornings. So, I'm thinking of trying to switch to a nocturnal sleep schedule so I can keep my night shift and move my morning shift up to the middle of the night, and then just sleep during the day.

    Does that sound completely crazy? Have any of you ever altered your sleep schedule significantly just to be able to make time to cam? If you did, would you say that it was worth it to you? And if you have switched to camming in the middle of the night, how do you like working during those times?

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    A long time ago I tried to sleep during the day and cam all night b/c I thought it was going to be awesome. But I made even less money and couldn't sleep during the day. If I had kept with it, it might have turned out ok... I would've gotten used to it, and eventually I might've gained some regulars.

    I work when it's good online, which means there are days when I don't sign on at all and other days I stay in make-up for 14 hours. I have learned that it's different for everyone though. I could be doing really awesome while everyone else in my country & category isn't making anything. Or I could be struggling to make $10 while everyone else is hitting goal after goal on countdowns. It really just depends on which customers are on at the time and what their tastes are. I haven't had a set sleep schedule in a long time, and that kind of sucks. But some other models tend to copy my schedule, so eventually I have to change it up.

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    Haven't cammed in a while but i mainly worked I'm the evening. I had a set schedule & stuck with that.

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    *in the evening

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    I've always been a night owl. Its part of what attracted me to stripping and eventually bartending and now camming. I haven't started yet...but the wee hours are when i come alive. Glad I don't have too much of a personal life to compete with it. Most of my friends are night owls too, and hubs gives ghost tours at a nearby historical site, so he's not home till midnight at the earliest anyway. I'm looking forward to camming all night.

    @Cam_Model_Jess: how did you determine when its good online? Working different schedules and keeping track of your earnings? Do you check to see how many models are logged in? Set up appointments with regulars? Or some genius algorithm of all of the above? Sorry for the brain picking, I'm an enthusiastic newbie (or soon-to-be, anyways.) Thanks ladies!

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    Certified vamp/zombie hybrid here.

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    Yes, I stayed up all night when I was on my 6 week break before going back to school the beginning of this year. (Dec/Earlyish January). It worked out really well for me at the time, actually! I thought I did awesome. . I had no distractions (besides Stripperweb, lol), I lived alone, and I was up all night anyway. I ended up changing it though because now I have a roommate and a on again/off again vanilla job. . and plus it is summer so I want to be out in the sun.

    I would recommend it for anything to be able to stick out longer stints on cam/keep to a schedule. . I felt like it really helped me there. If you are going to be up all night anyway, you might as well try it! just make sure people in your life know you will be unavailable till 2-4 pm or whenever it is you will be rising from the coffin. I personally did the best from 11pm-3am est. . . with the random weird fetish dudes popping in from 4-6am est.

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    I'm going through the same thing.I work 2 shifts also.one in the afternoon and one late at night.I think my late at night shift is messing my schedule up because sometime i dont get off till 5am in the morning.It takes me two hours to fall into deep sleep.so by then its 6 or 7am in the morning.then ,I have to wake up 6 hours later to get my daughter ready for daycare so i can cam in the afternoon.Ugh!!!.Its to the point were im thinkin about workin four days a week so i can have that extra day to sleep in.

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    I very much look forward to becoming a vampire

    My morning shift has been really slow for me lately, partly because I'm not able to work as frequently as I'd like to due to my sleep schedule keeping me too tired/unfocused, and partly because it's SM and I'm having weird glitchy issues every time I try to cam on there. So as long as I can make *something* in the middle of the night, I'd be okay with it. I suspect there will be less viewers online in the middle of the night than during the day, but perhaps there will also be fewer English speaking models so it may very well balance out for me. I usually log off of my night site between 11pm-12am, and it also takes me at least a couple of hours to get to sleep. But lately, I've been up consistently until 3-4am chatting with my boo, who works a night shift on the other side of the country. So I figure I might as well just log out of my night site, log straight on to SM, and chat with my boo in between shows if it's slow.

    I just didn't want to think of myself as the only person crazy (/dedicated?) enough to change her entire sleep schedule around just to work.

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    I cam late at nite and early in the morning on SM which has really turned me into a vampire. Its hard for me to function during the day like most people with a steady 9-5, even when Im off cam its hard to function during the day.

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    See, it's already hard for me to function during the day. And it sucks! And even my GP doesn't know what's wrong with me as she's tried me on all of the common rx sleep aids but they don't work. She referred me to a sleep clinic to figure out what's wrong with me so we can treat my insomnia but since I don't have health insurance right now going to get evaluated really isn't an option. So, I may as well try to capitalize on the fact that I am a freak of nature Or a vampire. Either way.

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    I know how it is and Im trying to go back to school next month and I dont know how thats going to work out because its really a chore for me to be awake during the day. I ve heard of this treatment called "light therapy" and its supposed to help with people with sleep/insomnia problems and it can also be used for mood therapy or depression. You should ask your doctor about that.

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    I worked in a nursing home for four years, primarily with Alzheimer's patients who would struggle with sundowning, so I am definitely familiar with light herapy It kind of sort of worked for them as far as their Seasonal Affective Disorder, but I didn't notice any change in actual sleep cycles. I have also never tried it myself, so who knows? After struggling with insomnia for so many years I almost feel like I'd rather just give in and submit to a sleep schedule that my body decides rather than doing the "regular" thing and living/working a "regular" schedule. And there's just one more reason why I love camming- I can log on at 2am and even so, there's bound to be at least one horny dude out there who'll want to do a show with me!

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    Everyone has their own sleep cycles. What actually works best for me is around 20 hours up then 5-6 sleep, so I'm pretty rotational. I'm not a morning person no matter how much sleep I've had. With 3 kids though the only time I can work is overnight so I'm definitely vamped and tending toward zombie cause I honestly can't remember the last time I got more than 8 hours in a row without waking up. I'm lucky if I get 3 hours in a row right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CourtneyRaine View Post
    See, it's already hard for me to function during the day. And it sucks! And even my GP doesn't know what's wrong with me as she's tried me on all of the common rx sleep aids but they don't work. She referred me to a sleep clinic to figure out what's wrong with me so we can treat my insomnia but since I don't have health insurance right now going to get evaluated really isn't an option. So, I may as well try to capitalize on the fact that I am a freak of nature Or a vampire. Either way.
    I have this therapist who is just brilliant! (She's also a grandma with tattoos who goes to bondage conferences and wears corset boots to the office, so we get along famously) I have had this seemingly erratic sleep schedule for years with all the "shoulds". I SHOULD wake up at a reasonable time. I SHOULD be awake during the day or else I am lazy. blah blah blah When I finally accepted that I am just a night owl, and am more comfortable with the still quiet house and knowing just about everything is closed. This world is too damn busy, especially during the day. Night has a peace to it that paradoxically excites me. Waking up at a "reasonable" hour should be determined more by that than by other people's business day.

    Once I started to go with the flow and accepted my natural sleep pattern and let go of the "conventional" beliefs... so much changed in me physically! My hair started growing faster, and my blood pressure went down and my stomach was more regular. I had more energy, and my mood was better overall. Eventually I was just feeling so much better that it became easier to sleep and easier to wake up. I've been a 100% confirmed vampire for about 2 years straight now, and I've never slept better. Good luck with your insomnia/sleep cycle/vampire transition. Have you tried melatonin to get to sleep when you're kind of wound up? Not as powerful as the Rx sleep aids, but cheap, natural, and over the counter. It helps me a little, but my mother in law swears by the stuff...and that woman gets wound up!

    From one freak of nature to another; go with what your body wants to do. The improvement in your mood and health is bound to translate into some kind of money, not to mention peace of mind. Sleep is so important.

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    Let me start off by saying that I have fibromyalgia and lupus, which greatly impact my sleeping cycle. I need a lot of sleep, but don't get it. Then go 3 days sleeping at a time.

    Yes, I am completely nocturnal. I kinda like it this way though, the night is more my style lol. I work from about 11-3 sometimes (A LOT OF THE TIME WHO AM I KIDDING LOL) 5, and will be up till about 8. And then wake up at 1. Take a nap later in the after noon and rinse repeat! I don't have a social life right now, unfortunely I'm too sick to have one, it's just work and sleep work and sleep but I kind of like it.

    I was a little bit of a night owl before camming but not to the extent I am now.

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    Let me start off by saying that I have fibromyalgia and lupus, which greatly impact my sleeping cycle. I need a lot of sleep, but don't get it. Then go 3 days sleeping at a time.

    Yes, I am completely nocturnal. I kinda like it this way though, the night is more my style lol. I work from about 11-3 sometimes (A LOT OF THE TIME WHO AM I KIDDING LOL) 5, and will be up till about 8. And then wake up at 1. Take a nap later in the after noon and rinse repeat! I don't have a social life right now, unfortunely I'm too sick to have one, it's just work and sleep work and sleep but I kind of like it.

    I was a little bit of a night owl before camming but not to the extent I am now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CalliopeQuinn View Post
    I have had this seemingly erratic sleep schedule for years with all the "shoulds". I SHOULD wake up at a reasonable time. I SHOULD be awake during the day or else I am lazy.
    ^ Exactly! I feel like such a bad person if I don't cam during my morning shift, even if I'm running on only 3-4 hours of sleep and can barely remember my own name. I cammed last night in the middle of the night and it just felt so right! Not only was it so much more peaceful and enjoyable, but the custies seemed a little bit more laid back compared to how wound up they are during the day. I will definitely be tweaking my schedule to cam in the middle of the night. At times it would get slow, sure, but then I thought to myself, well, I'm awake and I'm going to be awake for a while, I might as well just stay logged on and do something else in another browser. And sure enough I would get random shows which I would not have been able to do had I been trying to be "normal" and pretend to be asleep at that hour.

    I have tried melatonin maybe a handful of times. It worked the first three times or so, then I went off of it for a couple of months, and recently when I've tried it again it knocks me out for maybe one or two hours and then I am awake and groggy but unable to fall back asleep. I think I am going to try taking it to help me transition to being a daytime sleeper, but I'm not really sure if it will work as my body seems almost immune to it at this point.

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    Cam kills my sleep. As a single mom of 3 kids I only cam at night. I try to cam form 8-12 but sometimes I get on late Other nights when its good I work late. Then I am up at the crack of dawn because my toddler feels we should get up with the sun. UGH I am exhausted.

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    I need to change my schedule to get more awake hours at night. I am just not making it right now working days. I'm such a 9-5er at heart.

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    I always cammed during the mornings and late afternoons/early evenings and while I did okay, I am absolutely loving working at nights! I wouldn't say that it's busier (as I don't have any night regs yet) but the whole atmosphere is So different, and it's much more enjoyable for me. Even if I am making the same amount right now it just feels like a lot less work. Of course, my already abysmal social life has gotten that much worse now that I am transitioning to becoming nocturnal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CourtneyRaine View Post
    I always cammed during the mornings and late afternoons/early evenings and while I did okay, I am absolutely loving working at nights! I wouldn't say that it's busier (as I don't have any night regs yet) but the whole atmosphere is So different, and it's much more enjoyable for me. Even if I am making the same amount right now it just feels like a lot less work. Of course, my already abysmal social life has gotten that much worse now that I am transitioning to becoming nocturnal.

    Yeah, I need to make this transition, night camming is somehow more "chill" for me. Maybe it's just because it doesn't feel like a bunch of 12 years olds on summer break got dad's credit card and are trying not to rack up charges while he's at work...

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    i LOVE working thru the night. i just hate waking up after the sun has set... makes me feel like a failure lol.

    but...working all night there are no distractions. my schedule these days is like a backwards 9-5...9pm-5am. i usually stay on longer tho..cuz i am not tired at 5am..and i don't need to hurry offline for all the exciting things happening at 5am..so i usually end up staying online till I am ready to fall asleep. when i work daytime i am always anxious to get offline cuz i feel like i'm missing stuff going on in the real world.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CourtneyRaine View Post
    I always cammed during the mornings and late afternoons/early evenings and while I did okay, I am absolutely loving working at nights! I wouldn't say that it's busier (as I don't have any night regs yet) but the whole atmosphere is So different, and it's much more enjoyable for me.
    I find this too, completely different atmosphere at night, but I feel just the opposite. I sooo prefer the morning/daytime crowd!

    Unfortunately I am having a bitch of a time getting my ass out of bed in time to catch them.

    I want to reset my body clock permanently. I feel so unproductive when I sleep half the day.


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    I used to be a total night owl when I was stripping full time - many years ago when I was working in London, the club would stay open till 4am, so I would work from 8pm-4am, usually go for breakfast with the girls after work, roll home at about 6-7am, then sleep until 2 in the afternoon....and then I had 6 hours to eat, do stuff, etc before getting myself back to work the next night.

    It was a totally backwards schedule - some days I would stay out for a long time after work, or not feel like going to bed right away, so I would be up till 9am then sleep till 5pm...but I LOVED it. I have always been a total night person, and it felt right, even in the winter when I would be going to bed before the sun rise and getting up as it was setting....

    Sadly, one of the reasons that I started camming was that it's just not practical for me to be a vamp any more. : ( When I started, I was working in a tattoo shop a few days a week, and it was just screwing up my body not being able to keep a regular schedule. Now I am camming full-time, but I still can't exactly go back to my vamp schedule because of my SO. Theoretically, I could, but it would cause problems in my relationship - he wouldn't be able to sleep with the noise of me camming coming from accross the hall, then I wouldn't be able to sleep when he is home during his days off...and the poor puppy would be so lost - her schedule would be all wrong! Its a price to pay for having other people that are connected to you and depend on you - sometimes you can't do everything the way that you would if you were alone....

    Anyway!! If you do decide to change your schedule, a couple tips:

    Buy a sleep mask and ear plugs - these saved me so many times when I was sleeping during the day!!
    Turn off your phone/put it on silent when you are trying to sleep
    Change your meal and exercise schedules to match the new sleep schedule - just act like whatever time you get up is 8am. Who cares if you are having breakfast at 2 in the afternoon? It'll help your body.
    Remember to stay aware of business hours for making important phone calls/running errands. I used to forget all the time that the rest of the world hadn't also switched to a nighttime life!
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