The sun is on the wrong side of the sky.

[tugrik]

In an aimless attempt to understand those icky "Morning People" I keep hearing about, I went to bed before 11pm and got up at 6am. I was at my desk well before 7 and watched the sun come up through my office window. The yellow face! It scares us...

I still don't get morning people. I've been at work for 3 and a half hours already when normally I'd be just now pulling into the parking lot. There is something terribly, terribly wrong about that.

Note: this doesn't apply to road trips. I can easily grok the whole 'run with the sun' thing during road trips. Go figure.

Comments

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

If you want to have the true morning experience, you have to do this for at least a week to get acclimated. Unfortunately, one night isn't enough for you to adjust to getting up early. :)

Us "morning people" like this because we're into work by 7 and out by 3 PM, which gives us plenty of time to go to the grocery (no lines at the deli counter!), the bank (still open!), the post office (no wait time!), or just home, where we can clean, read or make an early lunch-dinner while everyone's still out of the house. :)

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

Reality is, though, unless you're rock solid on "leaving time" work will continue to be handed to you until other people give up. So it's just easier to adapt to the standard engineer schedule and work late after coming in late...because odds are you're going to work late in any case.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

You have to work for a place that doesn't have the mentality of 'you're our slave because we pay you,' yes. I left IT for precisely that reason, but I've heard there are indeed places where you can leave on time and working extra hours, even if you're salaried, isn't kosher.
:)

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

That's one of the reasons I haven't tried to push my working hours back to something I consider normal. 10 am to 7pm, I've found, really annoys the snot out of me... but I have a distinct feeling if I came in at 8:30 am, it'd just add 90 minutes to my working day.

Morningness.

[cjthomas.livejournal.com]

I still don't get morning people. I've been at work for 3 and a half hours already when normally I'd be just now pulling into the parking lot.

This is why I like the morning thing (or even 9-5 thing), when I can pull it off: I've done half the day's work by the time I'd normally be crawling out of bed in Grad Student Jet-Lag Land.

I can also do work while I'm semi-alert, rather than working in the evening when I'd rather be sleeping or doing something mindless. My patterns of alertness follow the sun, whether or not my sleeping patterns do }:>. But you already know that cats are solar powered };>.

Upshot is that being in Grad Land results in there being about one hour a day when I'm alert and productive, and it's the hour I'm poking at email/webcomics before going into the university. The rest is slogging. I switched to 9-to-5 after the conference jet-lag crash reset my sleep patterns, and loved it.

And then I wrecked things again while doing thesis corrections };>.

I hope this sheds some light on why I like it when I'm a day person.

[smackjackal.livejournal.com]

'Cause the more I get done in the the morning the more I can do for myself in the after noon. There is no real mystery why I leave work between 4pm and 5pm most days, I've already put in 8 or 9 hours by then.

[impytoes.livejournal.com]

I work 7am-3pm, and in IT, but at a university - I think the mentality is vastly different than IT at a non-gov't place. I love it - I see the sun rise and am out the door by 3pm. Get to see my kid after school, and it's true - no lines until the mad rush hour hits around 5pm. But, even if I tried, I still wake up at 5am-6am, even on weekends, it's just the way I am wired. Sucks too because all my friends are night-owls and want to play after midnight, and I turn into a pumpkin at about 9 or 10pm.

[hydra-velsen.livejournal.com]

I HATE morning people. They are the spawn of satan. Normal people like me run on coffee and momentum until 10 am, when we finally decide to wake up.

Morning

[slipdragon.livejournal.com]

I've always been a nocturnal person...

But my job, now, has done wonders. Up around 8am, five minute commute, in by 8:30. Since I'm used to working contractor-style, I take a short lunch, and I'm out by 5pm.

Stores are open. The sun is still (somewhat) up. I could do my laundry before I go to bed. Lemme tell you, going from a job where I had no useful hours during the day, and three useful hours during the day (5-8pm), has improved my life greatly.

I am pro-interacting with the rest of the city that operates from 9-5!

-=B.

[growlcoon.livejournal.com]

Man, I hear you. I hate mornings myself. The only thing that clears the cobwebs in the morning is a stiff cup of coffee. Morning people drive me nuts. They are too much to handle first thing in the morning. ;)