Oh, How I Hate to Get Up In the Morning!

[CanadaGirl]

I have to get up at 6am to get ready for school, and then head for the bus at around 7:20. After classes at 4, I usually have to work the 5-10. So I don't get home till around 10:15. But on the weekends it's a go to bed and get up whenever kind of time.

[Crafty1289]

Convenience stores open stupid hours - oops, that should read "convenient hours" silly me!

I have to get up at 5:20am, it takes me 20 minutes to get ready to leave - shave, brush teeth, hair gel, deodorant, dress, make bed, gather up belongings. Then 20 minutes to drive to work. I get there at 6:00am to get the shop ready to open and get the newspapers and magazines out on the racks. I have breakfast when I get to work - thats IF i have anything.

Then the shop opens at 7:00am! And there's usually a queue of really sad people outside too, the halfwits who then come in at 7 and say "im gonna miss my bus now" like its my problem. I sure hope corporate never find out about the queue at 7am, they will have us opening at 6, like some other stores.

And we open till 10pm. To be honest, I prefer the early shift. Its normally 6a-4p and 4p-10p. The early shift appeals more to me because I have the evening to myself then! I hate going to work at 4!

[protege]

I try to get up around 6:30 or so..even though I hafta work at 8am. I could get up a bit later, but that means I'd hit heavier traffic (mostly city and school buses) on the way in. Usually, I'm gone at 7:05. Believe it or not, but it takes about an hour to drive across town.

[friendofjimmyk]

Working in restaurants for most of my working years, if I worked lunches, the earliest I would have to be in is 10am...1 hour before the place opened. If working dinner only that started usually around 4 or 5, the latest 6 if I were a closer. I'd often worked doubles, then would get out of work and hit the bar (when I was still drinking) and stay out til the bar closed and then partying more at someone's house. Good times! Looking back, I sometimes can't believe I maintained that lifestyle for soooo long!

Now, my shift starts @ 6:30. I get up @ 5:00am. I work until 3pm. Not bad. I too attend classes a couple nights a week. My bedtime lately has been around 9 - 10pm.

My shifts are supposed to be changing though. I am going to start going to school in the morning and work the afternoon shifts. The classes I need to get my happy ass out of school the quickest are mostly offered in the morning. If I stuck to going to school at night, I'd be in school for another three or four years! (I've already been in school for ten!)

[pbmods]

I used to be a night person. Now I'm a night person who can handle early mornings.

At the last store I worked, I had to take the 0630-1500 shift twice a week. Being an hour away from the city (and being a little slow in the morning), I had to get up at 0350. Yuck.

At my new store, we open at 0700, so I get to sleep in about a half hour. When I requested a mid-day shift, they were nice enough to give it to me twice a week.

Yay. F***ers.

Incidentally, Steve Pavlina has published a useful article on how to train your body to wake up at a specific time. You can find it here.