Ugh, my mom says this to me too. She thinks I should force myself to get up earlier no matter what time I fall asleep. The thing is ... I picked a career where I work 2:30-11 p.m. every day. I sleep from about 4 a.m. to noon. My entire family is full of morning people and they love to call me a vampire or whatever.…

This is unsurprising. I worked at a McDonald's in Indiana in high school and college, and the A/C broke one day in the middle of August. It was unbearably hot on the back line, and we had to keep rotating two-minute breaks in the freezer, where steam would come off of us when we stepped inside. One day I passed out on…