Waking up how early do you wake up for a full day's work?
By JustinStout
@JustinStout (174)
United States
June 14, 2010 6:13am CST
Just curious,
I wake up on an average at around 0330 or 3:30am. And on average I get home around four in the afternoon, from a grueling day at work. Don't get me wrong, work hard play hard, and that is happening, when work is to be had here in sunny florida, we work, but when we have some down time, it's all worth it. But my body is starting to take a toll, and so is my mind, Theres a saying you are only as old as you feel, im 28, and i feel so much older.
How early do you wake up on average to do nearly 12 hours of work? Is it worth it? I would guess the pay would be worth it huh? Don't get me wrong guys, I'm in the military, so that has a lot to do with why i wake up so early and i chose to live a bit away from the base, I'm not exactly complaining, just wonder if anyone shares my pain.
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8 responses
@srganesh (6340)
• India
15 Jun 10
I am running a little business and as you know business people have no specific time to work or rest. Just we run after the business or remain idle when it is dull. Yet, I manage to get up daily at around 7 a.m. and help my wife in preparing my kids to school, then I reach my office around 9.30 a.m. Then upto retiring to bed, it is all business hours.
@JustinStout (174)
• United States
15 Jun 10
see i can't wait till I can have that. Don't get me wrong i enjoy what i do but sometimes the morning feels like the most impressionable hours with your children and wife and I am already out the door well over three hours before they even wake up.
My in-laws own their own busniness and the dedicate pretty much every waking second to it. The work is paying off but I know it is taking a toll. sometimes they wake up at 330 themselves because they have a wedding cake to present and my mother in law wants it to be perfect. But, It is their baby, something they had nurtured from the begining and they put the time in and it pays off. When is it good to rest and let someone else take the ball and run with it?
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@srganesh (6340)
• India
15 Jun 10
Well, we can' take rest until the next generation is ready to take the ball. Otherwise, our business should grow enormously so that we can have lot of employees and managers to take care even if we are absent. We can train them like that. Until then, with this small business, we have to put all our effort, whether it pays or not.
@JustinStout (174)
• United States
15 Jun 10
I agree completely, that is where my in-laws are at, they are waiting for me to get out of the military so my wife and i can work with them. They have a gem, and they absolulely love what they do but they just want to rest, retire, have a bed and breakfast, but they want to create something that their family can continue and love as much as them.
I think they are there
@aliya27 (79)
• Kenya
14 Jun 10
haha,
I have to laugh.
You are absolutely right!
Sometimes i believe that as the world, we are all too busy trying to make money that we do NOT realize that we are actually just getting poorer doing it.
It seems to me that there is too much burn out,stress and depression going around the world.
Personally, i realized that i was existing obsessing over making a buck or a bigger buck!
I used to feel so worn out and tired even upon waking up in the morning,which was around 5pm.
Well, if you ask me, working 6-7 hours is good.
However, beyond that i believe it just slowly wastes and finishes one of.
@JustinStout (174)
• United States
15 Jun 10
Sometimes I wish my job was paid by the hour, i would be making some big bucks! ;-)
@sublime03 (2339)
• Philippines
14 Jun 10
I wake up the same time as you do to do my routine of taking a bath dressing up, drying my hair while I go online. Every single day, I bring myself to doing the same old thing just so I do not have a hard time waking up and doing those stuff just to be in the office before 5 in the morning. I also get home around 4 in the afternoon my choice. I usually do not want to be home at 3 pm since it is too hot and it just slows me down to go around the metro that time.
@JustinStout (174)
• United States
14 Jun 10
I feel ya, i have that usual routine, now granted i don't have to dry my hair but it's awesome waking up to a refreshing shower, then take the puppy out, make breakfast drink some coffee then on the road to work, It's my quiet time before the caos of work and home to two kids. I need that time in the morning, mentally and physically, but eventually it takes a toll if you know what i mean
@TheAdvocate (2392)
• Philippines
14 Jun 10
A few years back, I was employed in a company which was doing work that was the first in my country. It was about 20 kms away from my house, but here in the Philippines that meant more than 2 hours of commute for me (traffic is horrible). I had to wake up at 430am, leave by 530am to avoid traffic and arrive around 7am in the office. That meant I could leave by 4pm but since traffic was and still is horrible, I get home before 7pm very very tired.
@JustinStout (174)
• United States
15 Jun 10
Wow, i live 30 miles from work which in the am it is a 40 minute drive in the pm it is nearly an hour. Two hour commute, that is ridiculous.
@mille_0419 (45)
• Philippines
15 Jun 10
I 'm still a senior student in high school so I'm not that so stressed out unlike you. :) So in my case I wake up at about 4:30 in the morning then school starts at about 6:30. I have to wake up early cause my school is kinda far from our house. So I arrive at about 6 pm.
@qianyun6 (2067)
• China
15 Jun 10
You really work hard. As a military worker, maybe you have to do so.
I wake up at about 7:30AM to 8:00AM in workdays, in weekends it will be much later, about 9:00am - 10:00am. I can't wake up too early, it'll make me sleepy all the day.
I admire you for you can keep waking up so early in the morning.
@JustinStout (174)
• United States
15 Jun 10
Thank you, you kinda get used to the waking up early, it's the weekends that knock you off the routine and make it so difficult to wake up.
@puccagirl (7294)
• Israel
14 Jun 10
I get up at around 8 am, every morning, and start work at 9.30 or so (I try to get up earlier so I can get to work earlier as well, but it never seems to work out, I guess I am just too lazy in the mornings or something, haha!). I work for 9 hours. Your day sounds really demanding, I do not think I could do that for very long...
@chetanpujara (84)
• India
14 Jun 10
I wake up at 6am, I usually be on the net or do Exercise in the morning from 6am till 8 am and then get ready to go for work by 9.30am till 6pm... The day Work makes me exhuasted since I travel a lot within the city which is very hot in this part of the country in Mangalore. now since the monsoons have set in, the rainy days are back and enjoying my work. T
