Alex Arias

When I was a young teen I always tried to justify a new video game to my Mom by promising it would teach me some adult life lesson. Mostly a lie. Except one game.

The game was Ark Survival Evolved. My hometown friends and I jumped on a public server for the first time. We built a base, tamed dinosaurs, and raided smaller clans. We were becoming a powerful clan on the server. Then one morning we all logged on and it was all gone. We had been raided in the night.

When it's night time for me it's day time for someone else, and this holds true no matter where I am in the world. A single calendar date can exist across the globe for a total of 48 hours. The world is always operating.

As a clan we adapted by joining an international one. We had members in Australia, North America, and Europe. Someone was always watching the base.

Same idea shows up in work. Navy watch standing broke a lot of new sailors. It didn't shock me. My current job's on-call rotation is much lighter but same shape, and I was able to adapt to it quickly.

I hope this info aids you well fellow gamer. Godspeed!