An hour earlier. I am not a morning person at all, but I’d rather get my job done and come home to do other, more important things.
Thanks for all the answer, folks. I’m considering a job switch that would have me coming in earlier, and that would probably work out pretty well for me.
I wonder how many of our employers would be amenable to making a change if we asked for it?
In any event, I hope to be making an earlier commute pretty soon.
[sub]I also hope to be making about $4k a year more. Wish me luck![/sub]
I typically work 8:00 to 4:30 with a 30 minute lunch. That works well.
Even though I’m not a morning person, I’d prefer going in early.
I’d fight tooth and nail to keep the hours I have. I am not a morning person at all, so I took the earliest shift I could stomach, which is 7:30-4, so that I would have lots and lots of time to do stuff like shopping, laundry, dishwashing, etc. after work. If I worked later hours, I would just sleep later in the morning and lose that productive time in the afternoon.
If absolutely forced to choose, I’d take 8:30-5, because getting up to make it to work by 6:30 would kill me.
I know, I never know when to go to bed on weekends in the winter because the sun takes so long to come up.
(As you might imagine by that, “later” is the answer to the thread question. Mornings before about 10am range from “uncomfortable and foggy-headed” through “physically painful” for me, depending on the day, and no matter how tired I am otherwise, I’m most awake from about 10pm to 1am. I don’t think I was born on the correct planet :()
I’m a morning person too. Normally I’m up by around 5-6am, but don’t need to leave for work (under the current arrangements) until 8 am, to be there by 9am.
I would LOVE to start at 8.00, but being a telefundraiser, I somehow don’t think our donors would share my preference to be called at such an ungodly hour of the morning. 
We already have somekind of daylight savings in our workhours. This means that in summer workhours are from 8-15, giving us more time outside to enjoy the sun. And in winter from 8-16, since its dark outside one might as well work longer.
What sort of class runs for 5 straight hours?
I’d take the hour earlier. In fact several years ago, when we installed some new computers in at the manufacturing plant I was working at, I volunteered to come in 2 hours early to give night shift a human being to talk to during the migration. I still remember the peaceful pre-dawn drives out to the plant and getting home early enough in the day to relax and enjoy myself. Nowadays, even 1 hour early would beat the morning rush hour, if not the evening one.
I’d take the one hour later. But only because I would get paid more.
I’m not sure. Currently I work 9pm to 7am, so would I like to leave at six in the morning or eight in the morning? I guess I’d go for earlier if pushed, as that would mean I could sleep more and not lose more of the day.
I work 6-2. I get up at 4:45. There’s no way I could get up at 3:45, so I guess I have to shift later.
But I love my hours. I get a great parking space and I’m on my way home before the school buses hit the road. I have time to run errands before dinner, and I don’t mind going to bed at 9 at all.
It doesn’t matter. My schedule jumps around more than an ADD-induced pinball. One morning I could be in at 4AM; the next, 6 or 7AM. Today I go in at 8:30. Tomorrow it’s 11:30. Gotta love shift work :grumble:
Earlier. I’m not all that much of a morning person (although I’d be OK), so I wouldn’t want my job to intrude into another hour of my evening.
I would change jobs. I work 6:30 to 4 to avoid the heaviest traffic on my hour-long drive. An hour either way would be enough impetus for me to job hunt.
However, I would be willing to come in at 9:30 and leave later.
I currently get to work between 6:30 and 7 and leave by 4pm, and I like it like that. If I had to change, though, I’d probably have to go later - I don’t think I could make myself get up any earlier.
Earlier during the week, when I work from about noon to 7, and an hour later on weekends when I go to work at 5 AM.