On being a night owl

Last year I got burnt out, so I took a sabbatical. I didn't realize just how much of a night person I am until I was able to disconnect myself from having to go to work at a certain time. These days, I go to bed at around 3 AM and wake up around 11 AM. That schedule just seems to suit me. I think I might have been less likely to burn out had I not been forcing myself to have such an unnatural sleep schedule (for me anyway). But now that I need to make my way back into the working world,1 I'm faced with a quandry: how do I work in a world that's made for day people? Being that hybrid won, I'll have to go into the office three days a week. And chances are, I'm going to be having to get up at least around 9. But here's the thing. For a while, I was taking a medication that somehow turned me into a day person. It's not quite so simple to say "Night owl hard, day lark easy".2 During my weird temporary day person phase, it was so nice to get up and work early. But it also caused trouble…