Gettin' up in the AM
 

Mindless thread, but I'm curious.

I read somewhere that 40% of Americans wake up before 7am for work.

Do you? I'm not a morning person, so it's rare.

I go to sleep before 7am ...:wacky:

5:45 every AM.

Howdy Ted,
Since Our main electrical panel blew up and caught fire we have been on genrators so I am up at 3 am, start work at 4 am, usually off at 12:30pm. When we get our regular power back I will get up at my regular time of 4:30am and start work at 5:30am. The on my one day off (sunday) I take the dogs out running I'm up around 4:30am. During the winter I can take the dogs out later so I can sleep in till about 6am. Then there are the times that I take the dogs to a running competition and have to be up around 2am.

3:30-4 am every morn,up like a daisy,walk the hound,have coffee with a splash'o rum,go into the shop and check on the antique resto work,make a fresh pot for my wife @ 6,get my daughter's bag ready for camp and then drive out to check the houses.

after 9 I can do anything I need to,look at the contents and make an offer for the contents of a house,supervise my workers rewiring another rental or take an old car and f*ck off for a few hours..life is good,

In bed generally @ 11 but that can vary with the drug and alcohol intake........

during school... 6 am on the dot after 2 weeks of reprogramming

summer.. when ever I feel like it.. but lately 9AM

man, when i worked nights i loved to sleep as late as possible. now, i've been getting up before 8 almost all the time and, much to my chagrin, i find it difficult to sleep past 8:30 even when i can

out the door at 5am mon -fri home at 6

Up at 6am - whether I want to, or not.

Never!!!





:rolleyes: Check out time stamp for this post. Our Lab gets me up at 5:30 like clockwork. It's usually within 2 minutes of the same time every day.

Usually up between 5:30 and 6 (AM). In bed by 10 to 10:30 (PM). But not like an OCD thing. Sometimes I stay up late to post poop on the OD or read or watch the telly. Sometimes I sleep to 8 or 9. (except on workdays!).

Early birds. I need 9 hrs of sleep.

I don't need to be in to work until about 830, so getting up at 730 is about right. I only need to keep an eye on one employee, who's an as needed worker. During the summer that's full time.

4:30am for me... out the door with the wife by 5:10 for our 84 mile trek to Manhattan...

Hmm
 

In the summer when I am working basically full time, usually my shifts start at 6am, so usually up for 5 am. During school...different story...depends if I feel like going to class :D

Yikes! :eek:

Up by 5:30AM, sometimes earlier when my daughter's sports activities deem so...long 80-mi drive to some sports complex for an early morning game on a weekend.

One I got married, the burden of head of household and life's responsibilities don't allow me restful sleep past 5AM... :dizzy2:

Not me, I get up nice n late. Today however I am up bright and early. Can't sleep when you are getting a new roof put on...:eek:

Coffee coffee coffee coffee........

6:30 a.m. every morning...my cat is trained so if i miss, she wakes me up. Now if i can just do something about the weekends....

6:00 ish.

I am so completely not a morning person and I usually have to drag myself out of bed.

Morning vs. evening persons
 

I used to think, back in the dear dead days of my first pass at college, that if the good Lord had intended for us to see mornings, He'd have made 'em happen after 12 noon. As a drama major, where all our rehearsals and performances were in the afternoon/evening, I thought it made sense, and it did.

Then I went to work and did various shifts at radio stations, drove various delivery shifts, etc. In 30 years I've completely changed from "evening" to "morning" person -- partly because most of the year in the The Swamp, 5 am has the only tolerable temperature for exercising. It's nice to get up when it's still dark and cool(er) to work out, wash the car, or drive to breakfast before the roads get jammed. I don't remember the last time I slept past 6 am, even on a weekend.

(Oh, wait, I do. Last week, when I was taking pain meds after a tooth extraction. Sorta nice.)

I think it's possible to change from one sort of "person" to the other.
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:eek::eek: By train or car? I couldn't do that.
I used to have H/W clients here at the SJ shore who would drive together to Wilmington DE ( 80 mi. approx). She gets dropped off at her job, and he rides up I-95 to Phila to his job (another 25 miles). Come evening, reverse the process. 5 days a week they did that for about 4 years till they both finally retired.

Me? I'm up at 5:30 am. Out of the house at 7:20 for my 5 min. commute.:D

I hear that. I can't get up any later than that even on a Sat. morning, whether I went out Firday or not.

I'm pretty much up by 6:00 everyday. Once the sun comes up in the morning, I can't stay in bed. Well, unless there's somebody else in there that's hard to leave. . . .

For the past year, I've been "waking" around 5:55a - peek at the clock and wonder "...what the...?" - then I doze about another 25-30 minutes, by 6:45a, then I'm on the peds...

UNLESSS, I get a call about something a little hinky at work or with the family...

Then, the pattern's screwed up for a while...

Reading through this thread just sent shivers up my spine.

I have worked operational for the past 20 years. Usually my shift starts early to mid afternoon. In my current position I had 0500 and 0600 starts for about 3 years. It was hard meeting someone with a p.m. shift and weekdays off so I made the sacrifice. Once married, with my wife's blessing (she says I am a much happier person working nights) I went back to my 1300/1400/1500 start times.

I usually put her to bed at 2300 and go off to the office to play and goof off on line for a few hours and go to bed at 0200 or so, wake up at 0900 or 1000. My wife leaves at 0800 or so and I have learned to be able to sleep through her waking up and getting ready for work.

In my position, I have never really cared for the a.m. folks. They are grouchy, typically senior (in terms of length of service) and uptight. The night folks are more relaxed, work better together and a generally much more happy.

4:30am. Do the triple S drill plus coffee and the morning paper. Leave at 6:15am, arrive at 7am. Of course, thats for the rare times I`m actually in town. Otherwise, depends on the time zone and the facility I`m visiting.

Up at 4:45, out the door at 5:30, on the job at 6:30, done at 3:30, hit the office to drop paperwork and in the 300E with the BW by 5:15 on my way home.

I moved to an apartment less than 2 miles from my office and i start work at 9am. Usually I wake up at 8am or a bit later, which gives me time to do the three S's, get dressed and still stop on the way for a to-go breakfast.

I usually work the 12-8pm shift... so it varies from 6-10 based on the current currents.

About 8 yrs ago, I woke up at 5:00 AM to work out, then be at work by 7:30. Did this for a few yrs, but had to take a 20 min nap. Our office had "quiet room", so I'd scarf down lunch and chill.

I'm much more productive, esp before noon if I get up at 7:00 or later. I can get 10 hrs of sleep, wake up at ~6:00 and be scattered brained until about 10. Wiring I guess.

That's nothin'.....

We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in
a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the
morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down
mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home,
out Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!

GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o'clock in
the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to
work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad
would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we
were LUCKY!

TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox
at twelve o'clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues.
We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four
hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we
got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.

EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night,
half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump
of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill
owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home,
our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves
singing "Hallelujah."

MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't
believe ya'.


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I usauly go to sleep between 1:30am-2am and wake up around 7:30am+/-. Get dressed, I don't eat breakfast or anything like that, slows me down I prefer not eating until lunch. Drive down to the office which is 1k feet from my door, I like to get there between 8:30-9. I can arrive whenever I feel like it so I can go in at any time. Some days its not until after lunch, depending on the schedual.

I usualy start returning/making by 8am.

I don't make money in the office, so its pointless for me to spend longer then needed there. Usualy I am only at my desk for 2-4 hours a day.

No kidding. I don't make money sitting around either. Can't stand staying in one place.

I work graveyard shift, Tuesday night/Wednsday morning thru Saturday night Sunday Morn. I sleep when I can and sometimes I don't sleep at all.
Sleep is highly overrated :D