All -
nighters work for me.
Not exact matches
We've all done it — pulled all -
nighters to study in school, to finish up a project or a presentation for
work, or to deal with a medical emergency or a trip to the hospital.
After all, an overweight colleague who successfully manages
work - life balance may be infinitely more productive than their thinner counterpart who pulls all -
nighters and seems constantly frazzled.
For many people, the defining image of a startup culture involves some combination of all -
nighters, weekend
work and intense, bleary - eyed young people bent over their keyboards, cranking out code.
But when Marissa Mayer makes headlines because she claims the road to Google's success was paved with 130 - hour
work weeks, regular all -
nighters and employees who make vacations few and far between, we have to ask:
Damn, I said I didn't want to talk about the scoring, but I'm about to pull an all -
nighter for
work and was trying to put off actually starting... onwards, I guess.
But
working consistently on homework all summer beats an all -
nighter just before back - to - school time.
I empathize with my fellow
work - at -
nighters.
Similarly to young women who can cram for exams and pull all
nighter with studying then go out late with friends the next night, a young mother can be up several times in the night with her baby feeding and changing him / her, and still function well the next day when it comes to alertness and
work at home or at an outside job.
While, admittedly, it would be easier for me to be a
work - at - home parent with only one child at home instead of having to pull all -
nighters for the ability to grab some kid - free hours to
work in silence, I don't see myself changing my mind down the road.
Shafran said Senate staffers and Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson
worked «through the night» on the charter legislation (passed very early this morning without GOP support by the Assembly, which also pulled an all -
nighter).
«Pulling an all -
nighter impairs
working memory in women.»
After a great deal of
work — digging through the stacks, deciphering older papers related to a new concept, drafts wet with the blood of Jeff's red pen, and even an all -
nighter or two — earlier this year I wrote a proposal that could hold some water.
Yet we tend to discard these warnings, believing that sleep isn't as important as diet and exercise, and we even take pride in our ability to pull an all -
nighter and show up at
work the next morning.
Effective as a pre workout performance enhancement supplement, for study sessions, concentrating through a late meeting, getting past the afternoon slump at
work, partying with friends, a long drive, or boosting stamina for an alert all
nighter.
It's a totally convincing piece of
work and even when things start to get a little nuts it feels believable, thanks to the writing with is stunningly free of phoniness or convention and the acting, which is so easygoing and natural that you can't help but identify with all the characters by the time the credits roll, and maybe yearn to spend another all -
nighter with them.
All
Nighter, which was originally written by Out Of The Furnace's Brad Ingelsby, is just the latest collaboration between director Jaume Collet - Serra and Neeson, who
worked together on Unknown and most recently reunited for air marshal thriller Non-Stop.
As a young teenager I pushed through countless teary all
nighters, sobbing through the school
work because I thought «If i just keep trying a little harder, it will be worth it in the end» if I make it.
I hate them unless you don't
work the next day and want to pull an all
nighter.
Anyone who's ever gotten an extension on a tough homework assignment or paper knows how that can
work out — simply with a later all -
nighter.
He recommends avoiding pulling all -
nighters of any sort, whether
work - related or partying, and committing oneself to sleeping and waking at the same time every day.
[had] to come back on a redeye flight from LA to NY and go straight to the office and
work a second all -
nighter on the IBM litigation for Cravath, while fighting a flu bug the whole time.
For example, when the partner at the firm says «this
work is terrible, you aren't even trying» after the lawyer pulled several all -
nighters to do something that they have never done before or given appropriate guidance on, an appropriate response should be anger.
Perhaps people who
work here actually want to have a decent life and not have to pull all
nighters in a top commercial firm and hate themselves all for decent pay.
If you
work in any sort of «city» firm doing
work for corporate clients, they you will inevitably have to
work long hours — lawyers regularly stay until 10pm - midnight at the firms and all -
nighters are not unheard of.
Expect no more than the «odd late -
nighter» at the firm's mostly regional offices, plus a relatively relaxed
work atmosphere that contains «lots of banter with the partners».
The volume of
work was considered «almost always manageable,» with one noting: «I've never had to pull and all -
nighter or anything close to it.»
What I find curious is that no one has discussed the fact that the practice of law is a service business — one that is successful only when the firm meets (and exceeds) clients» expectations in terms of quality of
work (which may require long hours to get it right) and timeliness of
work (which may mean pulling all -
nighters).
We've pushed through a full day of classes after pulling an all -
nighter in college or
worked late on a project and managed to survive a
work conference the next day..
«The standard complaints of a trainee at a city firm: the odd all -
nighter and spells of long hours if you have taken on too much
work as a trainee.»
It can be incredibly rewarding to finally complete a project after numerous all -
nighters and weeks, or even months, of hard
work.