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would you rather sleep later, or get home from work earlier?

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Get home from work earlier. As it is currently I get to work early and get home late. Worst of both worlds! ~15 minute commute so at least that isn't bad.
 
I'd definitely start at 830 or 9 if I could, but currently I'd get nailed with traffic. So I get in at 7am and leave at 3pm and miss traffic both ways.

Although it seems during the summer, the 3pm slot is a lot busier than during the winter.
 
I'm definitely a morning person, so I'd prefer to be at work earlier and leave earlier. I'm currently doing 9-5, but I'd like to start doing 8-4.
 
Work earlier. I set my hours at 7-3, M-F. Traffic is pretty light both before and after work. Plus, I'm home at 3:40 and get to spend a lot of time with my son, who goes to bed at 7:30. I can also mow the lawn on a weeknight instead of having to do it on the weekend like I used.

At my previous job, I had to work 8:30-5 and was only home for about 2 hours before my son went to bed. It also stunk getting out of work with it dark in the winter.

Edit: I'm not a morning person, but I can force myself to get up at 5:50 every day with the reward of getting home early.
 
DixyCrat said:
Tell this shit to the entrepreneur, the writer, the academic, the artist, the person that honestly loves what they do...

This is total bullshit if you love your job.

Up at 6, 20min SSS, 40min walk to work:
work 7am-11am
eat
work 12pm-4pm
drive home:
kids 4:30-7:30
eat
work 8-10
down time 10-12

Honestly, a 9-5 job is an excuse to waste half of your waking life infront of the TV.
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Or pursuing other hobbies and interests. More power to you if you can thrive on six hours of sleep. I'm jealous.
 
I would never choose to leave work so late. You get home and your night is shot and you're faced with calling it a night that much sooner. Sleeping in isn't worth that much.

Also I feel a lot more productive earlier in the day.
 
Rather sleep later, waking up and not feeling tired is awesome. Plus you will miss most of rush hour traffic going to and from work
 
sleep later. I usually feel pretty lethargic during work. I would be able to increase productivity if I could sleep in. I don't do anything on most weeknight evenings anyway.
 
rh71 said:
I would never choose to leave work so late. You get home and your night is shot and you're faced with calling it a night that much sooner. Sleeping in isn't worth that much.

Also I feel a lot more productive earlier in the day.
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versus watching TV or playing games for a few hours and then calling it a night?
 
As an engineer, I've always had fairly lax start times at work, and I've chosen to go into work later (around 9) and get out at 6. If I go in or get out earlier, traffic ends up being ridiculous, because that's when most people are commuting. So, I probably spend ~8 minutes less each way by going in later.
 
Sleep later.

Throughout my life i've always had problems with falling asleep early. My body isn't ready for sleep until about 4-6am.
Melatonin helps to negate that to some extent if I take 6-10mg at night.

I've been working 9-6 for about the last 5+ years, and before that I worked some 8-5, some 6-2, and prior to that a year of 10-7 , and before that, was doing 9-6ish. Before that I had wored a couple of different 4 day schedules (that I loved), and prior to that I had worked overnights, and a bunch of other schedules.

Anyhow, I would love if they moved my start time to 10 or 11, then I would sleep better and be less tired.
 
Get of earlier for me. But as it is I work 12's and highly prefer that. I like working a longer shift and having more days off. Working 14 out of 28 days rocks. Plus every other weekend is a Fri-Sat-Sun three day weekend. I rather like my schedule.
 
Depends on when you ask me... If you ask me in the morning when I first get up, I'd rather sleep in later. If you ask me right now, I'd rather get out of work earlier.

I normally work 7:30-4.
 
boomhower said:
Get of earlier for me. But as it is I work 12's and highly prefer that. I like working a longer shift and having more days off. Working 14 out of 28 days rocks. Plus every other weekend is a Fri-Sat-Sun three day weekend. I rather like my schedule.
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Yeah I love working 12's. My work schedule is based on 160h 4 week periods, so basically 40 hours a week spread out. I always ask to get lots of 12h nights with some days in between so I end up with hardly no days where I have to get up early. Love it.

Next schedule I'm working almost all nights, and like 6 in a row at some point. The nice thing with nights is I'm always fully refreshed because I had my full 8 hour sleep instead of being woken up by the alarm and having to peel myself out of bed.
 
DixyCrat said:
Tell this shit to the entrepreneur, the writer, the academic, the artist, the person that honestly loves what they do...

This is total bullshit if you love your job.

Up at 6, 20min SSS, 40min walk to work:
work 7am-11am
eat
work 12pm-4pm
drive home:
kids 4:30-7:30
eat
work 8-10
down time 10-12

Honestly, a 9-5 job is an excuse to waste half of your waking life infront of the TV.
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i'd rather not be a slave
 
I like sleeping later. I'm a night owl, so mornings already suck for me. Rush hour doubles my already long 35 minute commute, so waiting until that's over and getting in at 9:30 is just fine by me. Pisses me off when people schedule meetings before 9:00.
 
My schedule this week:

Wake up 830a, bike to work
Clock in @ 10a
Work until 730p, bike home, chill/eat until 930p
Hop back on the computer and do work until battery runs out, usually ~130a
Perform late night activities, go to bed by 230a

repeat.
 
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lxskllr said:
My hours were 7am-3:30pm. I rather liked that. You still have some usable evening left, and as you said, you miss the traffic.
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Same here, I prefer to get up early and leave work earlier (but they can only go as early as 8-4 unfortunately).

I like to have few hours of daylight to do things etc

Waking up is not so bad.....besides we have 4 kids, we have given up on sleep LONG LONG ago. When they get up (which is early as they go to sleep around 830-900)....it's hard to sleep at our house.
 
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