How Do You Get Up/go To Work?

I used to always wake up and go to work when I had a job like that. I haven't had a proper job like that for a while but I've increased responsibilities on my way to owning a small business and I've been "working" a lot more.

So, I used to wake up, shower and go to work.

I had a guru once, a wonderful Norwegian older man. I haven't seen or heard from him in near 6-7 years but at the time he meant a lot to me and everything he taught me has been stored in the mind vault.

He told me I should not start my day this way. That getting up to work is just conforming to work, for "them". But I couldn't get up and have fun before work because work wasn't fun. It felt strange to wake up and do things and then have to work.

Lately I've been doing what he said though. I no longer mope around in fact I'm up, I go to freezing garage and play pool for 30-45mins. I take dog for a walk. I draw, color etc.

When I get to work they're all zombies like I used to be and they can't understand how I can accomplish so much before work.

I've historically had shocking sleeping patterns. I'm up late at night through to early afternoon and maybe get 3hrs of solid rest. Broken but solid. At times I was always upset that I could never sleep like others.

Trying to average an 8hr sleep a day is about the dumbest thing I could think of at the moment. I mean let's say I live to 90, I'd have slept away 30 years of my life. That's an enormous amount of wasted time for a "good night sleep".

I've never understood the term "borrowed time". I don't know who I'm borrowing it from. Is that work related? Or is living life in general "borrowed time"?

I feel like sleeping is borrowed time.

Anyway. More time for Irm.

 

I'm the same exact way on all these points ⤴

I simply sleep a few hours right up to my alarm. Stretch 5min. Let all 4 dogs out. Nuzzle my wife's head and kiss her on the cheek, make sure she's covered. Make sure all doors are locked, and I'm off to the grind.


Off topic:
1 hour cat naps in the afternoon do wonders. Sometimes even better than the sleep before work.

Cool post.

Edit : off topic.

 

KKK are a buncha sock puppets.

 

I really like morning time and am generally more productive in the morning than at night, and I always have these really lofty goals to get up early, work out, maybe write a novel lol

But in truth I have no willpower against sleep. If I wake up before work and realize I have time to either be productive or snooze, sleep wins every time.

If I worked later hours it would be different as I never sleep later than 730 or 8 am, even on days when I dont work, but work starts at 9 so I usually snooze until. 7:30.

One of these days i'm going to get up early and work out and maybe even start that novel!

Also, i wish I could function on little sleep so I could have more time but I need at least 7 hours, preferably eight, or I dont function very well

 

I get up, stumble into my office and immediately check my email to see if any crap has to be answered right away. If so, I either give them what they want or feed them something to buy time until I can actually deliver (sometimes I just don't feel like writing).

If there's nothing freaking out in email, I make a thyroid shake and sit down for a movie or an episode of some series I'm trying not to binge watch. If I can help it I rarely do any actual work before noon because I'll likely be working well into the evening anyway. Somewhere in all of this I'm dragged out of the house by one of the children for a walk.

Some time before midnight I shower and go to sleep again.

When I have to work at a client's site this kind of routine drives them up a wall, until I start delivering. Then they leave me alone. But every so often I have to play the game and perform like a trained seal for a while.

 

Pretty sure if I worked at home on a computer I'd probably just watch porn and cam girls and have ESPN on all day. I'm almost certain id never accomplish anything else.

 

or be on hip forums all day........

 

I sometimes workout and train before going to work. But most times i just wake up and go. I average about 3 to 4 hours of sleep so i try to get as much sleep as possible when i can. I try to get a half hour to an hour nap during the day.

 

Spent like 17hrs a day on here for 5 months when I fell off my horse. Mostly in the chat room. well okay maybe not 17hrs a day but I would have been logged in for that long.

 

I've had jobs where I loved getting up in the morning to go to work.
And I've had jobs where every morning I dread my life.

 

I used to love going to work at 11pm to work behind bars and strip clubs. the behind the bar life was good. I went to work when everyone was asleep. I came back home on a road that was empty and the opposite side was busy with people going to work. All the shops were open when I finished. It was a social life too. I didn't see anybody on my days off because I socialized so much during work hours. I had so much free time too. Like the job was just a social life. We picked glasses, poured drinks and cleaned sure, but was never a chore. We did it with good team people. It never ever felt like "work".

 

basically i get up when i want to

if i need more sleep i take more sleep


my clients know im only available at certain times and if they bother me before or after those certain times they know to expect either extra charges or a very grouchy fuck off

 

i pretty much wake up, get ready, and go to work. usually at least. i would much rather have my free time after work, knowing that i'm done for the day. when i worked evenings, i just spent the day dreading having to go to work. but, i also hate my job a lot less than i did back then, so when i do go to work later, it's not nearly as miserable. but i still prefer to get it done and then spend the rest of the day doing what i want.

i need a lot of sleep though. anything less than 8-9 hours, i really just don't feel right. anything less than 6-7, the entire day is basically a waste.

 

I'm old and have worked all kinds of hours and jobs. How I would get up and what, or if, I would do anything prior to going to work has always had everything to do with what time I had to be there.

When I worked 1st shift (8:30 to 5), I ALWAYS felt like I was going excellent (not just good) to get up, get in the shower, grab some coffee and get there.

When I worked 2nd shift, I did exactly as you described, Irmi...I would never get up less than 3 hours before it was time to work. For years, I would do all kinds of things before going to work, including walking the dog, cleaning house, changing litter boxes, etc.

Working 2nd regularly made me fall in love with doing stuff before working, and having next to nothing to do when I got home.

Now that I work every dang minute (24/7 babysitter/caregiver) when I saw this thread, the 1st thing I thought of was I have to set the alarm clock so I can dash out to the damn mail box before Mama decides to trot her happy ass out there and in the process let BB out. lol <-----------is called laughing to keep from crying.

 

I'm a morning person, my brain works better then, I can get lots done.
Sleep! I don't need much, and can actually go 48hrs with no sleep, and have 4 or 5 hrs and be ready again..If I have just a ten minute nap! I won't sleep that night, it can be very annoying!

 

Usually the sound of the boat going into gear wakes me for work. I get up get dressed and head across the dect and start working. We usually chop a couple pounds of herring then take a break for coffee and a bowl of cereal.

 

I get up, get outta bed, drag a comb across my head.
Then I find my way downstairs to grab a cup, and usually look up and notice I am late...
so I find my coat and grab my hat, try to make the bus in seconds flat.
Then when I get to work and I make my way upstairs to have a smoke and if somebody speaks I go into a dream.......

 

I've always been an early bird. Had a morning paper route when I was a kid - up before almost everyone else delivering papers. I still rise before most (430am) - these days to exercise and get in the office before most of my peers. I usually get 6 - 6.5 hours of sleep a night. Its a routine that works for me. On weekends I still get up early and love to be out on my bike before most folks even think of crawling out of the sack.

 

I get up around 7, get outta bed around 9

 

Same here. Up at 7am. Out of bed around 9pm.