I am not a morning person. At all. I wander aorund in a daze until my second cup of coffee. However, I’d still take the hour earlier. It would make my leisurely evenings feel so much longer!
I’m so much more a morning person. I would LOVE to work 7:30 to 3:30 - 7:00 - 3:00 would be even better! This would all hinge on my husband’s hours remaining the same so he could get the kid off to school.
Pre-kid, I’d have said an hour later. But since he tends to get up around 6:30 anyway, I’d rather go in and work 7:30 - 4, and have an extra hour with him at night.
I’ve become a very unreluctant morning person.
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Neither one would upset me any. We just changed our school schedule from a 7:30am start to an 8am start, but I still get up at 5:30 and am at work by 6:30. An even later start would just mean that debate practice gets over at 4:30 rather than 4. Not much of a change for me either way.
I work 8-5. My favorite hours EVAR were when I worked 7-3:30.
Earlier, I suppose. My son is out the door to middle school just after 6:30 so there’s no reason I couldn’t get dressed and go straight to work after that.
Though I am so NOT a morning person. If it weren’t for that enforced early-get-up, I’d probably vote for later.
I made the earlier-hour switch about a year ago. I typically work 6:30 to 3:30 though I have some flexibility; as long as I’m here by 7-ish, and get everything done, I’m not pinned to the clock.
I love having the late afternoon available. I can cook more elaborately for dinner and have it on the table by 6pm instead of 9pm; I can see an early movie; I beat the worst of the freeway traffic, coming and going.
And I’m not a morning person, either. Left to my own devices, with absolutely no obligations, my natural tendency is to go to bed at 4am and wake up at noon. :eek: But it took about a week to adjust to this enforced schedule, and I’m having no problems. Cup of hot tea at my desk when I arrive, and I’m fine.
I’d never go back to a later shift. (I used to do 10am to 6:30.) I’d feel like I was losing several hours out of the day.
I had to ask permission to change my schedule recently to allow me to take three classes this semester instead of two. I was hoping to tack the extra hours on to the end of my day, but the boss said to do them in the morning.
The good news is that I get that extra half hour to wake up before anyone starts harassing me. It’s been an easier adjustment than I thought it would be and I am not a morning person at all.
Hour earlier, if for no other reason the traffic would be a magnitude better between 6 and 8.
I got a chance to do this. I decided I did much better if I worked 10-6 instead of 9-5.
Works so well I don’t even need an alarm clock!
Definitely earlier – I currently work the 11-7 shift, so I don’t need more time in the morning.
I’m already in the ‘later’ category. I start my workday around 10 and finish up around 9 pm. I fit a lot of other things in there too, such as errands and meals. Since I’m self employed I have a tremendous amount of flexibility. This is my dream job.
OTOH, back in the day when my kids were small, I think the ‘earlier’ would have been better, because I could have spent more time with them in the evenings.
Earlier, probably. While I’m not a morning person, the difference between getting to work at 9 and getting there at 8 is negligible. Both make me suffer, and I don’t wake up fully until early afternoon.
I’d work from 11 to 10, no question. I’d have more time for errands in the morning.
Later. Also not a morning person.
Though the best job I’ve ever had (from a satisfaction standpoint, not on a $$$ standpoint) was scheduled 7:30-4 so that I could avoid most of the traffic along 128 (drove down to Waltham from Southern NH {ugh})
I arrive at my desk a little before 6:00am PST, I have on occasion come in an hour later, there’s no way I’ll do that commute every day! Put me down for earlier. Also, I support our US service team so an hour earlier means the east coast can call me at 9:00am, an hour earlier would make them very happy
I would love to come to work earlier and leave earlier, but a law firm’s rush hour is typically at about 4:30 to 5:30 in the evening, so it’s just not possible.
Besides, people tend to give much more credit to you if you work later rather than come in earlier. It’s stupid, I know, but that’s just the way it is.
Earlier!! I am done for the day in about 1/2 and hour as a matter of fact. I start when my building opens.
I say later, but it’s because I am a morning person. I would much rather go running in the morning than have to push it to after work. When we ‘Spring forward’, my life is better, because I have more time in the mornings to run safely. I have to finish my runs by 6:30am in order for my husband and I to both shower and get the kids ready, and that’s not really possible right now. Sunrise is just too darn late.
I already come in one hour earlier than I’m obliged too, so formalizing it would not be a big deal at all (and the opportunity of getting out one hour earlier as well is great, since it doesn’t happen now).