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I'm supposed to be at work at 8:30 so I wake up at 9 o'clock. No one seems to notice that I'm always late but I make up for it by taking a really long lunch and leaving a little early.
iconomy, you really have it nailed. I had to re-read that a couple times before I REALLY understood. Heh.
I work at 8:30. Weeks I have the kids, I usually wake up around 6:30 or 7:00 and get out of bed to help get them and their crazy needs met. Weeks I don't? I still wake up around the same time, but tend to lollygag in bed until 7:30-7:45. I can walk to work in 15 minutes, and I'm pretty quick to get ready.
Oh, and also of note, it seems? I haven't used an alarm in 15 years or so. Well, except for a couple weeks ago when I had to be up at 4:00am to make it to the airport.
I have to be at work at 8am. I get up around 6.15 to take the dog out, shower and hair and makeup and clothes and take the mister to work before I can then go to my own office.
I've been trying to get up at 5 to go to the gym in the mornings, but that's just not working out. I end up resetting my alarm for 6.
I have to be at work at 7 AM, so I get up between 5 and 5:15 AM. I have to leave the house by a little after 6 if I'm riding the train, which is most of the time.
I'm unemployed, but I still get up when my husband leaves for work (7:30). I don't know why, it's not as if I do anything particularly productive until about 11.
The standard time for the alarm to be set is 7am (well, actually, 7:03, because I hate setting alarms on the hour or half-hour). However, my work schedule's all over the place, and some days I don't have to be anywhere until 2 or 4pm or so, so I often go back to sleep or read in bed for a few hours.
Re why it takes me over 3 hours from alarm to work: 1/2 hour to brush teeth, get into running gear, get doggy gear (treats, leash, poop bags) and get out door. 1 hour to run or walk. 1 hour to eat breakfast, pack lunch, shower, get dressed, etc. About a 40-50 minute commute w/the beloved husband.
I walk out the door sometime between 7:15 and 7:30 to get to work at 8. The alarm sounds at 6, and then I hit snooze. Again. Again. If I get out of bed by 6:40 then I have time to make coffee.
The alarm is set for 5 am, but I'm doing pretty good if I actually get out of bed by 5:30. Some days it is more like 6:30. I have to be at work at 8:00, and I have a 45 minute commute. If I'm not helping a child get ready, it takes me about 45-60 minutes to shower, dress, eat, ect. It's more like 90 minutes with a kid in the mix.
I like to leave the house at 6:30 when possible, because there are fewer idiots on the road and when I get to the office a little early it makes me feel like I'm an organized, got-it-together kind of gal, which is a nice way to feel at the beginning of the day. But I'm also lazy about getting out of bed a lot of the time.
I get up (when it's my turn) when the baby wakes up, so anywhere between 7 and 8. Usually around 7.30. When it isn't my turn to get up with her then I get up at 8. I start work around 9, but I work from home.
On a day when I have to be in the office, 5.30. I usually wake up just before the alarm goes off. I leave the house at about 6am and if the trains are running properly, I'm in the office by 7am. On a working from home day, I'm usually awake by 6.30 at the latest, so at my desk and working by 7am.
5:15 if I want a shower, 5:50 without a shower (I only shower two or three times a week or I chafe, plus I'm lazy; I try to shower at night, but most of the time I'm too tired). I'm out the door by 6:30 and at work by about 7:45.
Course, it's the summer, so I can sleep as late as I want. I still tend to be up by 8:30. Gone are the days I slept until 2pm.
My bosses live out of state, and therefore aren't in the office, so nobody who is in a position to care what time I get in is actually in the office. Additionally, my boss is hands-off, so he rarely checks in.
I used to wake up around 8am to get to the office at 10am, but lately I've taken to waking up at 7am to get to the office around 8:30am. I've cut out much of the puttering about I used to do in the morning. Even when I did get in at 10am (sometimes 10:30am) I usually wasn't the last one in the office.
5:30 when I'm scheduled for a sim (have to be there at 7), otherwise 7:30 or whenever else I goddamn feel like (would like that to be 6:30 but it never happens)
You don't wanna know when I get up for work, 'cuz y'all would be hating on me if you knew.
I wouldn't. I'm a morning person. I can't stand lying in bed if I'm not actually sleeping so I wake up, I get up, and I'm wide awake. None of this dragging myself into consciousness that seems to afflict other people. I feel sad for people who don't enjoy the early mornings.
Despite not having used an alarm clock in a decade, I awake between 5:30 and 6am pretty much every day, regardless of when I go to bed. Yesterday felt like a small miracle when I slept until 7. I usually schedule office hours at 9 and have my first class at 10. (Despite waking up at or before dawn, I can't always reliably make it in by 9.)
My alarm is set for 5:00 and I aim to be out the door at 5:30 or so. That gets me to work at 6:30 unless I have to fill the car (usually twice a week), which takes me 15 minutes out of my way because I have to use Caltex and they are few and far between.
If I leave any later, the traffic becomes a nightmare and I won't get to work until after 8:00. It's a ridiculous situation and the worst thing about driving to work instead of taking the train. If it wasn't for the fact the having a work car saves me $75 a week in train fares, I would just leave the bloody thing in the car park and stick to the train. I also miss the opportunity to read/snooze/surf the web on my commute but hey, it's $75 that I'd rather have in my pocket than give to Q Rail.
In Japan most companies cover train fare costs as a part of the employment package. I'm surprised more environmental groups don't target this kind of set up to get more people off the roads and onto public transport.
There has been a big push to make train/bus fares free at peak times, to encourage people to use public transport more, but there's an equal and opposite push for the public transport providers to reduce their reliance on public funding. I'm a bit appalled at the number of cars on the road with me that have only one person in them (yes, I know, including mine!). It's really only the cost of parking in the city that makes anyone use public transport here - the cost of me catching the train on its own is more than the cost of running a car back and forth, so there is not a lot of incentive and, if you transport an extra person in the car, the cost is much lower to drive, even if you have to pay for parking. Because of the sprawling nature of Australian cities, you still generally need a car to use public transport, because the services to the suburbs are spotty at best. Even if I use the train, I'm still driving for 20-30 minutes a day. I guess, for lots of people, if you are driving to the train station, you might as well drive to work.
For me, I'd love to go back to being a one-car family, but it's just not practical if we want the lifestyle benefits of living where we do and the career opportunities that are generally only available in capital cities. As it is, we are a three-car family, because I can't use the work car outside work except to travel to and from work.
I wake up at 6:30ish (well, between 6:30 and 6:50) for a 7:55 train, which I walk to. The routine is: hit snooze a few times, stumble slowly downstairs, feed cats, start coffee, hop in shower, blow-dry, go back upstairs to dress, go back downstairs to drink coffee, scarf breakfast, and listen to NPR, leave house by 7:35 for walk to train, hopefully not have to run for train in nice work clothes and non-made-for-running shoes.
My work offers a transportation benefit that lets you buy your train pass out of your paycheck with pre-tax dollars. It works out pretty well: the cost for me is just about the same as it would be to drive, but I get 1 hour a day of free reading time on my 2 half-hour train trips there and back.
Yeah, we can get the same benefit through a salary sacrifice scheme but, for various reasons, we get to either salary sacrifice public transport or electricity. Electricity, for me, is less work, so I do that. We can also have the same arrangement for superannuation, cars, laptops, mobile phones etc.
Every day is a workday for me for the most part and I get up somewhere between 9 and 11. Which is, amusingly, the same time my West Coast co-worker wakes up [i.e. between 6 and 8]. If I'm working locally, I don't have to be at work until 1 at the earliest and there have been a few times when I needed to set my alarm to make sure I made it in, but for the most part I lead an alarm-free existence unless I'm travelling or have a plane to catch.
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