See? Us late risers are your natural allies in primitive life.
We stay up late, tend the fire and guard against animal attacks.
You get up early, relieve our watch and begin the day.
Thank you! I’ll even have your coffee ready when you wake.
I get up at 4:30a three days a week to get to the gym. Yes, I feel a bit smug, because I know I’m accomplishing quite a bit and can get to work early.
Reminds me of a George S Kaufman story. He got up early and went bed early. A Hollywood type called one evening and asked, “What are you doing for dinner?” Answer: “Digesting it.”
Nobody’s smug at me for getting up early, because my honest and easily-expressed reaction is that they’re insane. Literally off their rocker; mentally deviant, psychologically broken to subject themselves to that.
And then when I find out they go to bed at 10pm, I’m even less impressed. Early risers aren’t more productive; they just are productive at dumber times.
I used to have a job that had me seated at my desk at 6 am so between working out and getting to work I was up at 430. Now I’m a consultant and set my own schedule and I’m at work a 9 am but I still like an early morning so I’m up without an alarm by 530 and I’m typically asleep by 10 AM.
Even when I was trolling the bars on the weekends I would be asleep if my friends didn’t come get me before 10 pm and keep me loaded on energy drinks all night long and I would still jump up at 8 am to get my chores done before they rolled out of bed. I agree with those above that I prefer to follow the sun and be up when it rises and go to sleep when it sets and it really bothers me in the summer when I’m in bed while the sun is still in the sky.
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Either that’s a typo, or I want your job.
Yes! And look how little respect we get for our dedication to the night shift.
There are some studies that claim really smart people tend to be night owls. Just sayin!
Well, I make booze for a living so passed out/asleep what’s the difference.
Stupid am/pm difference like I know what they mean
So if you’re really really proud of all the stuff you get done early in the morning, aren’t you ashamed that us late risers are getting a bunch of stuff done after you go home? 
There is truly a disconnect. I’m an early riser. An office worker. BUT often things I need/want to do requires daylight. So I keep my schedule on the weekends. If either my Wife or I slept in to 7am, something would be really, really wrong.
And it works both ways, while late risers don’t consider working on things before say 7am, us early risers are wound down for the day by 9pm. :shrug: whatever floats your boat.
The best part is when you accomplish all of MY chores/errands before I’ve gotten out of bed!
There does seem to be some sort of weird connection between:
early riser = productive and boring and
night owl = lazy and fun.
I’d be interested in a scientific study. It’s probably totally random, but it feels true.
I’m in my mid-forties and the majority of my friends are early risers (and generally successful). I’m a night owl and I have a lot of fun, but I’m not as successful as them.
So, yeah, I do sense a bit of, “Oh, you’re not up by 6:00? Why not?”
My response is mostly a pathetic, “I hate mornings,” but to myself I’m all, “I was up till 1:30 listening to an awesome band.”
4:38 AM. I’m wondering if you arrived at your odd time the same way I did, which was inching the alarm time forward until it was about as far as you could take it ( in my case there’s a train I want to catch, and waiting until 4:40 AM makes things just a tiny bit tight).
No smugness here; I’m actually pretty envious of people who can shift their own clocks. When I bring it up, it’s to try and explain that I just can’t shift that internal alarm call so no, I can’t stay late multiple nights in a row. Just. Can’t. Well, unless you want to have to take care of me when I crash; if you’re willing to bring in the chicken soup I’ll be happy to have dinner end after midnight more than once a week.
What I don’t get is why so many people whose own clocks are also unshiftable either deny it (“I really don’t understand why am I so tired in the mornings” “because you’re a night person” “no I’m not! I set my alarm clock for 7!” “uh… ‘I force myself to crawl out of bed’ is not the same as ‘I wake up early’…”), or refuse to accept that for some of us, the unshiftable clock is set to mornings. I’m happy to spend afternoons with a night owl so long as they’re happy to spend afternoons with me, but I’d rather we both accept that there’s a lot of hours one of us will be asleep (The Bestest Boyfriend was a night owl; we never had a problem with that).
I’m starting to think I may not have the better end of this deal.
All the good hedonistic fun happens after 11pm. No one stays up past 11pm to walk six miles and look at a deer and no one wakes up at 5:30am so they can hook up with college twins.
I don’t care what time anyone else gets up as long as they’re not in my house / presence. I’m not about to tiptoe around my own damned house.
Yeah we don’t often associate terms like: sobriety, thrift, industry, or self-discipline with night owls, but I bet there’s a pretty strong correlation in perceptions there with early risers.
That’s close to my natural schedule. My ideal sleep seems to be about 2AM to 9AM. If I regularly go to bed earlier, I actually need more sleep.