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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?
-------------------- Kevin Gaffney Artistik Signs Kinnegad County Westmeath Ireland 044-75187 kevingaffney@eircom.net Posts: 628 | From: Ireland | Registered: Oct 2003
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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!!!
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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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.
-------------------- Ace Graphics & Printing Camdenton, MO. USA
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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.
-------------------- dennis kiernan independent artist san francisco, calif, usa Posts: 907 | From: san francisco, ca usa | Registered: Feb 2010
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My mind wanders. And that's not a good thing, 'cause it's too small to be out there alone. Posts: 3129 | From: Tooele, UT | Registered: Mar 2005
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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.
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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.
-------------------- Bob Moroney The Sign Guy 310 Club Valley Drive Falmouth, MA 02536 508-259-6297 Posts: 216 | From: Falmouth, MA | Registered: Jul 2008
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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.
-------------------- George Perkins Millington,TN. goatwell@bigriver.net
"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"
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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
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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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.
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3821 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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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!
-------------------- Kerri Brownlee Glorious Graphics and Gifts 312 Hwy 89 N Mayflower, Arkansas 72106 Posts: 20 | From: Mayflower, Arkansas | Registered: Feb 2011
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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.
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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.....
-------------------- www.signcreations.net Sonny Franks Lilburn, GA 770-923-9933 Posts: 4115 | From: Lilburn, GA USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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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.
If I go to bed early, I like to read anyhow.
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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