Ugh. No.
I get up about 5:30, hit the road by 5:45 and at my latitude that means for about half the year I get up and start driving to work in darkness.
It’s not the darkness I object to as the earliness, however. I am by nature a night owl. I enjoy the dark, I’d just rather enjoy it from the opposite end.
Doesn’t bother me in the least. In fact, if it’s light out it makes me feel weird. Like I’m missing the day.
My Wife gets up at 4:15, I get up at 5:15. Had a terrible cold this weekend, and managed to sleep in till 6am. Then had to get out of bed.
Oh! How I love to get up in the morning,
take a pee and get back in bed.
I did, and tried to talk my boss into cooperating, but he refused, selfishly thinking only of the schedules of his paying customers. He just made me come to work an hour earlier, when it was still dark and the phones were ringing…
No. I’m finally starting to get up when there’s some daylight, and now that will change next week.
I don’t like getting up at all actually. I could sleep till noon every day if I didn’t have to work.
If I had to choose which end of the workday was dark, I would absolutely choose to go to work in the dark and come home while there is still plenty of light. I gladly give up one hour of sleep each spring in exchange for longer daylight hours after work!
Same here. There’s nothing that I need light for early in the morning/on the way to work.
I do like it. It feels private and anticipatory. Waking up after dawn feels like walking into a movie that’s already started.
I don’t like it at all. When I was working night shifts, I could go for nearly a week without seeing the sun in winter.
I like it - no competition for the bathroom - get up - get washed, dressed and get out of the house before anyone else is out of bed.
I used to commute by train and the station is about a 2 mile walk - I loved the winter mornings when the street lights were still lit, the roads empty and only a few houses beginning to wake up - it always felt very atmospheric, as if something big was just waiting to happen.
I hate getting up before dawn. I hate driving to work at any point close to sunrise. I basically hate going to and from work in the dark, period. At my soon to be old workplace, there were no windows. The only sun I saw all day in the winter was the 20 minute drive to work, and that was it. I hated it. If I had the power, I would abolish Daylight Saving Time and stick us on what would be the “summer” hours now, so I could at least also see the sun driving home in the winter.
By nature I am a [del]permanently exhausted pigeon[/del] night owl, so no. I currently have to get up for work two days a week at 6am, and I hates it. Not as bad as the ludicrous 2am starts occasionally demanded by my previous job, but still…
There is something quite satisfying about getting up and ready and out and about before almost anyone else. It’s like, “I’m being productive and we haven’t even started burning daylight yet!” That said, I don’t do it very often. Once a week, maybe.
I normally get up at 6:30. I prefer it to be at least getting grey out, because I feed horses first thing, and I prefer not to do it by flashlight. But I like the stillness, and the frog chorus in the Spring.
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I don’t necessarily mind being awake before the sun is up, but my daughter has to be on the schoolbus at 6:40 AM (wth?!) so that means we both have to be coherent and getting her ready starting at 6 AM. She’s 5 y.o., so that means if she’s to have a decent night’s sleep, she’s got to be in bed by 7:30 PM. That is not happening, and I can’t figure out how to make it so. 8:30 PM is a good day, and she’s a night owl like me and her siblings and dad.
If it were just me, eh, I don’t care much either way, as long as I get 7 or more hours of sleep.
I’m a morning person. I usually wake up before the alarm clock goes off. I hate staying in bed once I’m awake. When I occasionally have to drive at dawn, I prefer to start while it’s still dark because I can half the time I need to be on the road. However, I normally get to spend my mornings at home, but I enjoy really long mornings and long evenings with my family. Six-seven hours of sleep per day are sufficient in my case.