This is a good question, and a slightly tough one for me to answer. There are various points where I might feel physically tired, but there’s also psychological exhaustion too. Sometimes the two meet in the middle, for added fatigue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the moment, I am at my most tired in the mornings. Early starts, combined with darker mornings, with the prospect of long days, leaves me feeling particularly drained. I am rudely awoken by the alarm, and from there I need a lot of wake-up time. The weird thing is, I am sleeping better of late, having at one stage found it difficult to nod off. I believe I could use another hour in bed, but my life is not presently geared up for that. To evade these early starts I would need a different job, though even then it’s an early alarm for my daughter’s sake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s not always mornings. Sometimes I’ll reach the middle of the working day and suffer an energy crash. The effects of my early coffee wear off, and I’ll be staring a lengthy afternoon of crap, or prolonged periods of boredom. Needless to say, this provides a sense of dread, which in turn steers me toward feeling drained. In general terms, it’s work that leaves me tired, though after several long days I can feel quite drained even on days off. What doesn’t help is that at the time of writing this post, I’d only recently recovered from a cold, and when one has a cold, everything<\/strong> is draining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The general malaise I have toward my current job doesn’t help with the mornings. If I were getting up to go to a job I loved, I might feel differently. When it’s a job where everything can feel like a chore, the mornings can be a drag. I imagine that makes me a lot like everyone else; we’re more enthusiastic about something we enjoy, so we have more energy for it. It’s not particularly easy for me to find that with work right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of it may also be age. I don’t consider myself old, but I am certainly not a youthful, spritely twenty-something meerkat anymore. I am in my early forties (soon to be mid-forties), and therefore I have to face reality: I am not in my prime. I can’t burn the candle at both ends anymore (not that I was especially capable of that in the first place!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sometimes I can start the day with a buzz, and then I’ll feel more tired as the day wears on (which you’d think is normal). However, on most occasions I tend to have more energy toward the middle of the day now, and take some time to wake up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n