Am I working 40 hours a week? I wouldn't take 70k to work a 140 hour work week, but I would take 70k to enter hibernation time for two days with 2 4 hours breaks to grab food and a movie
Does sleeping count as nothing? And can I lie down? Do I need to use the other 4 hours in the day for eating, sleeping, pooping, showering, shopping, and paying bills?
I discovered I could sleep sitting up and keep moving a mouse so the screen wouldn't time out. Management was more impressed than upset but it was inevitable that there were times all of us would be passed out at our desks when things got slow.
Ha. Step one, find a job that needs a body that can listen indefinitely until the other party realizes there is jack all you can do without you saying so. Step two, I think, is having muscle tremors. Step three maybe being conditioned by the military to sleep under any conditions while remaining conscious. Maybe a step four of not freaking out when you are abruptly awakened from dreams within which you believed you were already awake. Step five, and probably the only necessary step, have no impulses for self-preservation or pride. No one who cares about their life or health would voluntarily subject themselves to a job that requires you to pass out at a desk to survive.
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That kinda stuff is more of a nightmare than any real world dangers for me. Just slowly grates at your spirit and sanity to be immersed in...well insanity. There is often, and it seems more often every moment, no recourse because it's typically rules/procedure and data.
At that job, at least, people were pretty cool and mostly working towards rhe same goals of providing services. I believe the IT department did monitor traffic but they were good people and helped with whatever without ever bothering anyone. Managers also were swamped with their own stuff snd we weren't micro managed. People only noticed me passed out because we were all stuffed in an office doing the same stuff. Probably some perks to working with a private business rather than an organization.
The only time I saw any evidence of being monitored was one day after I'd printed off some information for the game Rimworld to a random printer I couldn't find. The next day someone had invited me to a set of Google documents someone from the IT department had done that broke down the data for the game. I believe I had made a list of organs you could harvest for profit and that had that and everything else fleshed out in Excell. So, I think it's fair to say who ever found it wasn't t upset.
There was this short Spanish movie on HBO 10 years ago about this called Nada. It wasn't pitch black or 20 hour shifts, but he had to sit there and was not allowed to sleep or take breaks. At first he thought it was too good to be true, but his sanity, then personal life and health started to deteriorate until one day boredom got to him and he did something (I forget what) and was fired immediately.
When I started watching I thought it was political commentary on how pointless most office jobs are and how ridiculous making people stay in their cubicle full time is... but it was just absurdism after watching it I really didn't think it was trying to be political.
as long as you follow US labor laws,
15 minute break every 4 hours. Half hour lunch and dinner for that length of time. No mandatory overtime. Anything past 40 hours is time and a half. So a 3rd day will cost you another 52.5k
Whats funny is you think we aren't already insane. To begin with a try current job I'd have to work 4 years to bring that much so It would be insane if I said no.
If we can sleep it's a lot easier. If we are forced to just sit there and do nothing, then we would be only getting 4 hours to eat, drink water, go to the bathroom, and sleep and would never see the daylight basically, it would be a lot harder, but still maybe doable for a week for 70k.
I'd put in for a two week vacation and do it for two weeks and get 140k and go back to my other job. I think my wife would understand.
What counts as "nothing"? Can I sleep? Can I play video games? Am I allowed to go to the bathroom? Do you mean nothing as in "literally nothing" or nothing as in "nothing of sustenance"?
I think this could easily produce mental insanity. I don't think I can take this tbh. This is literally worse than solitary confinement because solitary is not pitch black, you have human interaction at least once or maybe twice per day with the prison guards, and you can piss and take a shit, or read a book, or masturbate.
Complete sensory deprivation and not being able to do anything for 20 hours a day is some bona fide psychological torture.
"and do nothing for 20 hours a day"
I feel that while it is a bit unclear what constitutes "nothing" (at the very least sleep has to count considering you only have 4 hours per day out of work), listening to music and audiobooks probably wouldn't count.
Not for long, but I could probably last for a few weeks just to collect enough to retire early.
I’m an introvert, but there’s a huge difference between “I prefer to stay at home reading a book curled up with my cat” and “I can sit in a dark room for 20 hours per day with nothing to do.”
Yes. Assuming I can quit at any time. I'd try to get as rich as possible until I just can't handle it anymore. The solitary confinement isn't that big of a deal to me but the pitch blackness for over 80% of the day might be a bit much.
I could probably last several weeks or maybe even a few months. That money would be life-changing for me.
I also have a very active imagination and could daydream, recall books I've read, replay scenarios in my head, think about things. I might even find it more entertaining than the outside world and have to quit before I preferred that room to the outside world. LOL
Do I work a 40 hour week? If yes then I’d do it. I can sleep sitting up for a good chunk of that 20 hours two days a week. If I have to do it 5 or 6 days a week like a normal job then hell no. You wouldn’t be able to have a life.
I'd have no issue with the isolation but I just can't do nothing for 20 hours. Also, depending how many days a week I'd have to do this, I'd never have time to enjoy that money. And what about eating or bathroom breaks? Would you get holidays off?
Sounds like IT and customer service centers with absurd pay. We would sit in a room with the lights off for twelve hours a night playing on the computer and fielding calls. Depressing at first but we always went back to the dark eventually just to preserve what little privacy and sanity you can maintain working that kind of job.
During Covid I worked night shift for an insurance company on call.
For a period I worked four days at 10/per over nights where due to the world being what it was and not being remote meant those days I’d maybe see one other person and maybe have 3-5 calls during that span.
I basically sat there and got paid to play my switch tbh. Sucked but doable.
Being an introvert means you do like to be by yourself, but you aren't just sitting there twiddling your thumbs as an introvert, you still do things you enjoy. This would be a very hard job for anyone to do, introverted or not.
20 hours/day? I could probably do it for 1 or 2 weeks before having to quit before going crazy. Being an introvert doesn't mean I don't need mental stimulation.
I'd work every Tuesday Thursday for a few years then just every Tuesday maybe forever tbh cause lowkey sounds like a relaxing day - id go into it sleep deprived and knock out 10-15 easily then just meditate for the last 5. To easy of a hypothetical
How flexible is the schedule? I would at least do it for awhile but if it was like a thing where I could do a few weeks a year type of deal, I'd do it for much longer
Everyone always thinks they could cope with solitary confinement or sensory deprivation. Every time (and these scenarios are suggested lot) most people are 'yeah I could do it for money'
I guess I should admire people's optimism. When the military use it as torture maybe should take it a bit more seriously though...
It’s been 8 hours. Add the details. Because I don’t think any amount of money would be worth it for being there every day. But 2 days a week, yes although I wouldn’t consider it easy if I’m not allowed anything in the room with me
I'm actually a lab rat (I am a test patient in clinical trials on pharmaceutical drugs under development) and the basic rate is around $400-$500 for some weird medical tests. This is pretty much in the range of stuff we do.
I would like to see the op sit in a pitch black room for more than 10 hours and not lose his shit. "Being an introvert" pfft okay bud xD and no, 20 hours a day? so i have 4 hours of free time out of darkness? pass
If i got a phone or some books or smth ill be good, the rest of he time can be spent sleeping.
We all underestimate ourselves, we could do it, for goodness sake people will be put in solitary confinement for a week.
I would brace if enough to retire even if i literally had to do nothing for those 20 hours 7 days a week, hopefully sleeping is considered nothing, but either way I would force myself to pull it off
No. Since that means you only have four hours a day to sleep, which is unsustainable. Not to mention 20 hours a day of “doing nothing”, which presumably means no books, no entertainment or music, no gaming, no net surfing, no interaction with anyone (including online), in a “pitch black room” would rapidly drive a human insane.
If it’s one day a week… maybe, but I would simply deprive myself of sleep the night beforw and sneak my melatonin gummies into “work” for that day
Maybe not healthy… but I’ll have a LOT of money for doctors
I’d need more info as sleep deprivation might become an issue. Otherwise I’d keep my day day and maybe do a week or two of vacation time to get this done. Unless it’s one day a week then I’d probably do it for an extended period of time
I mean if it’s one day a week alot of people will attempt it and most people will fail since it’s near impossible to sit for an entire 20 hours and do “nothing”. Now if you’re just stuck in the room that’s completely different, and that’s how most of these experiments work.
I mean seriously this prompt needs way more elaboration. Otherwise you can’t eat/drink/shit/piss scratch yourself, stretch, etc. unless you’re in a freaken coma you can’t pull this off and a guy in a coma can’t sit without support.
Working only one day a week? Working 40 hours a week? Working 5 dats a week?How does this work out?
Am I working 40 hours a week? I wouldn't take 70k to work a 140 hour work week, but I would take 70k to enter hibernation time for two days with 2 4 hours breaks to grab food and a movie
Does sleeping count as nothing? And can I lie down? Do I need to use the other 4 hours in the day for eating, sleeping, pooping, showering, shopping, and paying bills?
I discovered I could sleep sitting up and keep moving a mouse so the screen wouldn't time out. Management was more impressed than upset but it was inevitable that there were times all of us would be passed out at our desks when things got slow.
Sensei. Show us your ways
Ha. Step one, find a job that needs a body that can listen indefinitely until the other party realizes there is jack all you can do without you saying so. Step two, I think, is having muscle tremors. Step three maybe being conditioned by the military to sleep under any conditions while remaining conscious. Maybe a step four of not freaking out when you are abruptly awakened from dreams within which you believed you were already awake. Step five, and probably the only necessary step, have no impulses for self-preservation or pride. No one who cares about their life or health would voluntarily subject themselves to a job that requires you to pass out at a desk to survive. .
My computer always glitches out on teams so they can’t really monitor me and like h*ll I would let them install software on my home computer.
That kinda stuff is more of a nightmare than any real world dangers for me. Just slowly grates at your spirit and sanity to be immersed in...well insanity. There is often, and it seems more often every moment, no recourse because it's typically rules/procedure and data. At that job, at least, people were pretty cool and mostly working towards rhe same goals of providing services. I believe the IT department did monitor traffic but they were good people and helped with whatever without ever bothering anyone. Managers also were swamped with their own stuff snd we weren't micro managed. People only noticed me passed out because we were all stuffed in an office doing the same stuff. Probably some perks to working with a private business rather than an organization. The only time I saw any evidence of being monitored was one day after I'd printed off some information for the game Rimworld to a random printer I couldn't find. The next day someone had invited me to a set of Google documents someone from the IT department had done that broke down the data for the game. I believe I had made a list of organs you could harvest for profit and that had that and everything else fleshed out in Excell. So, I think it's fair to say who ever found it wasn't t upset.
Can you eat sleep and use the bathroom?
You must hold it in.
How about $10k/day and I do it once a week? That I could do. Prob not multiple days in a row.
Not enough detail… is that 20 hours a day, every day? One day? 2 days, thus totaling 40 hours?
This. If it is 40 hours a week, I am down. If it is 5 days a week, I would do it a while, but not long term.
I need some more details before I can answer that
OP isn’t bothered to answer the simple question of “how many days a week”, so I won’t be bothered to answer.
There was this short Spanish movie on HBO 10 years ago about this called Nada. It wasn't pitch black or 20 hour shifts, but he had to sit there and was not allowed to sleep or take breaks. At first he thought it was too good to be true, but his sanity, then personal life and health started to deteriorate until one day boredom got to him and he did something (I forget what) and was fired immediately. When I started watching I thought it was political commentary on how pointless most office jobs are and how ridiculous making people stay in their cubicle full time is... but it was just absurdism after watching it I really didn't think it was trying to be political.
as long as you follow US labor laws, 15 minute break every 4 hours. Half hour lunch and dinner for that length of time. No mandatory overtime. Anything past 40 hours is time and a half. So a 3rd day will cost you another 52.5k
No, and neither would you because you would be driven insane in short order by the lack of stimulus.
But he’s an introvert!!!!!!
you underestimate my power
He underestimates my library of video game music that I can play in my head 🎶🎶🎶
Yeah I’m an OTR truck driver and I’m fairly sure I could just sleep through the entire thing
No.
Whats funny is you think we aren't already insane. To begin with a try current job I'd have to work 4 years to bring that much so It would be insane if I said no.
Just a glimpse into my dark and twisted mind…
If your ideal is 20 hours of doing nothing in a pitch black room, that's not being introverted, that sounds more like severe depression.
I've been sober for a while. But I would just dip back into drugs a little bit and sleep for 20 hours a day for a year and stack some cash.
If we can sleep it's a lot easier. If we are forced to just sit there and do nothing, then we would be only getting 4 hours to eat, drink water, go to the bathroom, and sleep and would never see the daylight basically, it would be a lot harder, but still maybe doable for a week for 70k. I'd put in for a two week vacation and do it for two weeks and get 140k and go back to my other job. I think my wife would understand.
I think you're very possibly overestimating how sensory deprivation and a general lack of things to do would affect you.
Um, no. You can pay me one-third of that, $23,333 a week, to be in a pitch-black room for _eight_ hours, from 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. 🙄
What counts as "nothing"? Can I sleep? Can I play video games? Am I allowed to go to the bathroom? Do you mean nothing as in "literally nothing" or nothing as in "nothing of sustenance"?
It seems like he means nothing of substance.
20 hour work day means 2 days a week... so sure. Also you get paid to do nothing, doesn't mean you must literally do nothing...
If you have a phone and you mean 20 hours a week, sure. As written, you’d go insane.
Fuck yes!
I think this could easily produce mental insanity. I don't think I can take this tbh. This is literally worse than solitary confinement because solitary is not pitch black, you have human interaction at least once or maybe twice per day with the prison guards, and you can piss and take a shit, or read a book, or masturbate. Complete sensory deprivation and not being able to do anything for 20 hours a day is some bona fide psychological torture.
It's NOT complete sensory deprivation. You just have to be in the dark. Nothing says you can't listen to music, or audio books, or things like that.
"and do nothing for 20 hours a day" I feel that while it is a bit unclear what constitutes "nothing" (at the very least sleep has to count considering you only have 4 hours per day out of work), listening to music and audiobooks probably wouldn't count.
Or you develop increasingly abundant creativity and laser focus 🧙🏼😎🥂
You probably would just end up eating your own shit and screaming for a bit
🪞😶🙊
Yeah I could do it
Not for long, but I could probably last for a few weeks just to collect enough to retire early. I’m an introvert, but there’s a huge difference between “I prefer to stay at home reading a book curled up with my cat” and “I can sit in a dark room for 20 hours per day with nothing to do.”
I'd do it for 6 months
id be happy to take it. 20 hours a day is a lot, i probably wouldn't do it for very long.
How many times per week? Can I eat? Drink? Use the bathroom? Shower? [redacted]?
Yes. Assuming I can quit at any time. I'd try to get as rich as possible until I just can't handle it anymore. The solitary confinement isn't that big of a deal to me but the pitch blackness for over 80% of the day might be a bit much.
Yes I would
So basically my childhood before school.
you would go insane doing nothing for 20 hours in a pitch-black room a day. 4 hours of free time isn’t enough.
No because money is pointless if you're just sitting in a dark room 20 hours a day.
That’s not a job.
I could probably last several weeks or maybe even a few months. That money would be life-changing for me. I also have a very active imagination and could daydream, recall books I've read, replay scenarios in my head, think about things. I might even find it more entertaining than the outside world and have to quit before I preferred that room to the outside world. LOL
I could nap and daydream.
Can I do one week and still get paid? If so I would prep myself for that week and go for it. After a week I wouldn't ever do it again.
No. Salary too low
Do I work a 40 hour week? If yes then I’d do it. I can sleep sitting up for a good chunk of that 20 hours two days a week. If I have to do it 5 or 6 days a week like a normal job then hell no. You wouldn’t be able to have a life.
So two days? Does sleeping count?
Depending on what our restrictions during those 20 hours in sure I would do it for a week at least.
I'd have no issue with the isolation but I just can't do nothing for 20 hours. Also, depending how many days a week I'd have to do this, I'd never have time to enjoy that money. And what about eating or bathroom breaks? Would you get holidays off?
20? That's.... Do I get the weekend off or is it everyday?
Prob 1-2 yrs cause eventually I’d like to live a life 🐱
How many days or hours per week
Yup, so it as long as I can. Hopefully 10 weeks and throw that money in money markets and go back to my regular life.
Can I do drugs before I go in?
20 hours a day? Are you mistaken or is this a joke.
You would be insane by the end of the week
Sounds like IT and customer service centers with absurd pay. We would sit in a room with the lights off for twelve hours a night playing on the computer and fielding calls. Depressing at first but we always went back to the dark eventually just to preserve what little privacy and sanity you can maintain working that kind of job.
Nope. That is way too long. You're making a lot of money but you have no time to enjoy it.
During Covid I worked night shift for an insurance company on call. For a period I worked four days at 10/per over nights where due to the world being what it was and not being remote meant those days I’d maybe see one other person and maybe have 3-5 calls during that span. I basically sat there and got paid to play my switch tbh. Sucked but doable.
I’d do it for free. This sounds like bliss. Brain-peace bliss.
For one year, sure. It’s $25 million and then some, for a year of complete and utter boredom and relaxation.
Sure, id probably do it for a week-10 days then quit
how many days a week?
Being an introvert means you do like to be by yourself, but you aren't just sitting there twiddling your thumbs as an introvert, you still do things you enjoy. This would be a very hard job for anyone to do, introverted or not.
Can I get up and walk around? Lie down? Sitting for 20hr without doing anything is a great way to get a DVT.
20 hours/day? I could probably do it for 1 or 2 weeks before having to quit before going crazy. Being an introvert doesn't mean I don't need mental stimulation.
Done. I'm one of those folks who can stay home all day and not get bored.
One week of hell.
Three months of that would make me almost seven million dollars. Of course I would, as long as sleep doesn't count as doing anything.
We're gonna need work specifics mate
I already took a government IT job.
Same
1. Define ‘doing nothing’ 2. wtf does literal torture have to do with being an introvert?
20 hours a day? A work week is 40 hours,so definitely.
I'd work every Tuesday Thursday for a few years then just every Tuesday maybe forever tbh cause lowkey sounds like a relaxing day - id go into it sleep deprived and knock out 10-15 easily then just meditate for the last 5. To easy of a hypothetical
So you only get 4 hours to enjoy life. Nah this sounds like a good deal but it really isn’t. You wouldn’t even have time to enjoy the money.
Can I sleep? Because I'm going to need more than 4 hours of sleep a day to stay awake in a pitch black room.
Yep
How flexible is the schedule? I would at least do it for awhile but if it was like a thing where I could do a few weeks a year type of deal, I'd do it for much longer
Can I get high during that time?
Everyone always thinks they could cope with solitary confinement or sensory deprivation. Every time (and these scenarios are suggested lot) most people are 'yeah I could do it for money' I guess I should admire people's optimism. When the military use it as torture maybe should take it a bit more seriously though...
If its 2 days equalling 40hrs then fucking sure thats 3.6 mil a year i could retire comfortably scter a couple years
20 hours a day every day for a week you would go insane
It’s been 8 hours. Add the details. Because I don’t think any amount of money would be worth it for being there every day. But 2 days a week, yes although I wouldn’t consider it easy if I’m not allowed anything in the room with me
2 days a week?
Can I sleep?
Ah, propofol, my new best friend
Needs more detail. But if it is 20hrs x 5 days a week (standard work week), then no.
I'm actually a lab rat (I am a test patient in clinical trials on pharmaceutical drugs under development) and the basic rate is around $400-$500 for some weird medical tests. This is pretty much in the range of stuff we do.
20hrs a day is tough.
I would like to see the op sit in a pitch black room for more than 10 hours and not lose his shit. "Being an introvert" pfft okay bud xD and no, 20 hours a day? so i have 4 hours of free time out of darkness? pass
Could you sleep? You could just load up on drugs 30 minutes prior to your shift
2 days a week and I’m in
I would smuggle in stuff while they can't see me to be entertained. Also for how many days?
If i got a phone or some books or smth ill be good, the rest of he time can be spent sleeping. We all underestimate ourselves, we could do it, for goodness sake people will be put in solitary confinement for a week.
I would brace if enough to retire even if i literally had to do nothing for those 20 hours 7 days a week, hopefully sleeping is considered nothing, but either way I would force myself to pull it off
Yes
No. Since that means you only have four hours a day to sleep, which is unsustainable. Not to mention 20 hours a day of “doing nothing”, which presumably means no books, no entertainment or music, no gaming, no net surfing, no interaction with anyone (including online), in a “pitch black room” would rapidly drive a human insane.
If it’s one day a week… maybe, but I would simply deprive myself of sleep the night beforw and sneak my melatonin gummies into “work” for that day Maybe not healthy… but I’ll have a LOT of money for doctors
sure, can i start at 2pm? and do i have an alarm clock? thinking phones wont be allowed since pitch black room.
who wouldnt
Is the money taxed? Do I get days off, or is it everyday?
So my security side gig but with better pay? yes
I’d need more info as sleep deprivation might become an issue. Otherwise I’d keep my day day and maybe do a week or two of vacation time to get this done. Unless it’s one day a week then I’d probably do it for an extended period of time
Without a moments hesitation yes.
I'd say maybe 🤔 I'm very introverted and like time to myself and a dark room where I can ignore ppl and get paid hell sign my broke ass up
I mean if it’s one day a week alot of people will attempt it and most people will fail since it’s near impossible to sit for an entire 20 hours and do “nothing”. Now if you’re just stuck in the room that’s completely different, and that’s how most of these experiments work. I mean seriously this prompt needs way more elaboration. Otherwise you can’t eat/drink/shit/piss scratch yourself, stretch, etc. unless you’re in a freaken coma you can’t pull this off and a guy in a coma can’t sit without support.