From time to time, we all have to put in extra hours to make a deadline. I'm one of the early school, I'd happily start work at 6 am if need be. However, don't ask me to work one minute past 6pm. I love my time at home with the family. I have a few mates however who do just the opposite. Lie around till maybe 9.30 and work on late till all hours. Whats the preference with you people?
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on :
Kevin, When I was working I was like you. I prefered to get an early start rather than a late finish.
Nowadays...Late start, avoid work, play until 10 or 11 pm!!! Posted by Tony McDonald (Member # 1158) on :
I'm showered and drinking coffee in my recliner watching the morning news by 7:15am, and in the shop at 8:00 It's only about 40 feet to the shop. Usually in bed by 11pm.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I think if the workmen had been early with the risers at the Super Bowl, a few hundred people wouldn't be getting compensated by the NFL.
Posted by Dennis Kiernan (Member # 12202) on :
I envy early risers but I'm a night owl, physically. I actually slept thru a fire drill in basic training. The sarge saw me still snoozing after 70 other men had piled out and hit the door, but when he shook me and saw I really was asleep, he didnt even give me any penalty.
My dad used to wake me by throwing a cold wet washrag in my face. Once he dumped the whole bed over with me in it.
Posted by Russ McMullin (Member # 5617) on :
I feel better if I get up early, but I love staying up late. That makes getting up early a difficult thing.
Posted by Declan Newman (Member # 4175) on :
It`s a seasonal thing for me. Bright mornings in spring and summer, a backflip out of the bed and out to work. Come the dark mornings its like clan of the cave bear,rraaarrhhh! lemme alone, I`m cosy here.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
It's 3:50am and here I am......
But I went to sleep at 9pm last night and just couldnt force myself to sleep any longer this morning.
Posted by Bob Moroney (Member # 9498) on :
Up at 3:30 - 4 everyday. Coffee with the boys at 5, working by 6. Busy day, working by 4. Love having dinner at 6 and being with my wife and friends.
Posted by Craig Sjoquist (Member # 4684) on :
Start early, long break mid day, work late.
Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :
I haven't worked a full day in over fifteen years with the exception of the bike rally's. I get up around eight, get out of the house by 10:30 or 11:00, back home by 4:00. I hate being on the road with the "regular" people.
Posted by Neil D. Butler (Member # 661) on :
The early bird gets the worm! Up at 6, to the gym by 6:45 3 days a week, other days up at around 6:45 work by 8:30
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
Early morning is the best time of the day, no matter how late I go to sleep. I always wake up early. Many people can't understand why I do not like to sleep in. Bill
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
Design time 7am, I am in pajamas, coffee in hand. 9am in the shop, dressed. I have no regular hours. I might stay in the shop till midnite during the summer. Or knock off by 2pm to do yard work.
Posted by Kerri Brownlee (Member # 15004) on :
The days that I get to 'work' in the shop (I call it 'play') I am up at 530am (as usuall)coffee and reading the Word until 630am. Dressed and in the shop by 730-800am. Lunch around 12noon. Finish around dark..in the winter that's 5pm in the summer that's 9pm. Since I am still a newbie, I am still slow at design and I tend to take my time to make sure that I do things correctly. I also have 3 grandchildern running through the shop at any one time. I also am the chief bottle washer and go to person for our construction company, our trucking division as well as Glorious Graphics and Gifts, my company. Oh and BTW, I have a 'real' job that I work 'part time' too!
Posted by Rusty Bradley (Member # 6938) on :
It's been an unusally cold winter here in Tenn...in fact for the past several months I just went into a deep hibernation along with my business...it didn't matter when I got up...but it reached 70 here yesterday so I'm stirring around a little more now looking for something to eat and with the break in the weather maybe I can find some work that pays...if not I'm going back to bed.
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
I'm a nightowl - the phone's not ringing, no salesmen or Jehovahs at the door, everybody else is asleep - the best time for design work......
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
I go in early 2-4am range. No phones or interruptions at those hours and the music can get cranked up.
I come home for breakfast at around 6:30am, shower and take a power nap. I go back to work at 8:15.
I'm in bed at 8 except for the weekends.
I need coffee in the afternoon to stay up with the likes of Sonny and the other late night kids.
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
In case anybody here is a Jehovah's Witness, I wasn't knocking them - they come to my house fairly regularly and we have coffee and lively discussions - they're very nice, genuinely interested in my salvation and never overstay their welcome.....
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
I find I'm most creative, and also most precise for tricky or exacting brush & scroll stuff closer to midnight.
It's peaceful, quiet, calm, no expected interruptions, and the work is just better. It doesn't suit many, I've always been like that.
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