My working day starts at five so the sun does not get me
Posted as before_the_heat
- Looking for
- someone whose hours are as strange as the climate makes mine
- Experience
- Nine years, both directions, one dynamic of three years.
- Around
- the south of the city, Madrid
I work outdoors, on sites, and from May to September I start at five in the morning and finish at one, because after that the temperature makes the work dangerous. For four months of the year I am asleep at nine in the evening, in a city where nothing social begins before eleven.
Thirty nine, Madrid, switch, nine years in this. That timetable has been the single largest obstacle in every attempt I have made, larger than distance, larger than compatibility, larger than any question of what either of us actually wanted.
The strange upside is my afternoons. From two in the afternoon I am free, awake and useless to nobody, four days a week, all summer. If you work from home, or you work nights, or your week has a hole in it in the middle of the day, we have more overlap than almost anybody else on this board.
In the winter I return to something like a normal life and can be out until midnight like a human being. What I want is one person, over a long time, either direction. I lead with people who want a firm hand about practical things and I follow with people who are calm and specific. I have very little interest in pain in either direction and quite a lot in restraint and instruction.
I am plain spoken and I do not write beautiful messages. What I do is turn up when I said I would, which around here is rarer than eloquence.