I am working on an experiment called UltraStrong, completing an Open Strongman Competition, and running a 50 miler Ultramarathon over a single weekend. I have done each separately but can you do both simultaneously? During the process I am keeping a journal, documenting everything, with the idea of writing a book at the end in a similar style to Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
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I had a restaurant job for a couple years where I had to regularly be in before 5am to accept deliveries. And those were 11 hour shifts. Just because I endured it does not in any way make me feel like we should impose that kind of schedule on others. What kind of nonsense is that? We should aim for schedules that work best for the most people most of the time, obviously.
Aside from the fact that the necessary jobs are on 24/7 schedules. Medical, food delivery (logistics), airlines, etc...
All these comments about people struggling with 8am classes. From 18-19 I had air traffic control training, on the job after our initial schoolhouse, at 545am. You learn to adjust or fail.
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jriot commented on Ask HN: Has anyone successfully started their career over in their 30s? · Posted by u/confoundcofound
I went from air traffic controller in my 20s to data scientist (economist as DS is vague in specialization) in my 30s.
1. I realized the hours of ATC were not for me and began graduate school in international relations, while I was finishing that I applied for grad school again this time in economics.
2. Got hired as a data scientist for a labor market economics firm, and upped my skillet. Now work as a data scientist manager for a cyber security company. They hired because of my economics background, needed someone for financial/economic risk quantification of cyber events. 3. You have to realize you'll go from expert to beginner again. You'll have experience in the work force but from a domain perspective you're a beginner.
It was a great decision!
Gotta say, I absolutely love the UltraStrong concept. Are you being particularly selective about the strongman events you're entering? I've come across a few that have one or two events where even the opening weight/implement might cause issues for anyone trying to run the next day, let alone run an ultramarathon.
Thanks! My only requirement is they have a stone event. I don't like them but when people think strongman they think atlas stones. Also needs to be in the open category; I can enter the masters division in 2.5 years but I feel that would be cheating as the weights are significantly less. I believe I have ~7 years to complete (45) this goal as age will become a factor in doing both at once.
Beginning two long endeavors this year.
1. Becoming UltraStrong. A concept I made-up to test myself. Compete and not zero any events in an open strongman event on a Saturday, then complete a 50 miler (ultra marathon) on a Sunday. I did ultras in my 20s and competed in two strongman competitions last year.
2. Reading and writing an essay on all the books in my library; roughly 300 books.
Posted on another thread.