Why do we wake up so early?

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It's ridiculous! What benefit is there in getting up at 5:30 AM? How does it benefit an office, or any business for that matter, to start operating at 7:00 AM? Is there some natural law that states business must be conducted between certain hours? Why can't businesses and offices be open from 10:00 - 6:00?

I realize this doesn't apply to anyone who works in service like resturaunts, hotels, hospitals, etc.

But for people like me who want to work during the day and have weekends off, this getting up at 5:30 is BS.

And as long as I'm at it... why do we all have to have the same two days off? Everyplace is so crowded, traffic is a joke, and I don't like being around all those stupid people. Why not stagger weekends so some people get Saturday and Sunday off, some get Sunday and Monday, and so on... Then it would even things out.

So yeah, things have been this way a long time but there is no good reason for it. I can't understand why humanity would bring such a plight on itself.

If I could just sleep until eight and get home a little later I'd be so happy and better rested.

Waaa waaaa I'm a whiner :lol:
 
I have no explaination for this. I really don't think this is what was intended for the human race.

I have also wondered the same exact things though.
 
If anythihg, it's improved in our lifetimes, milefile. You couldn't go to a supermarket at 10pm over 20 years ago! You couldn't pump gas at any old hour of the night unless it was a truck stop.

We're animals, we like to get up when it's light, and retire when it's dark. Now buisnesses take adavantage of you by getting everything "just so" and ask you to get up early so they are one step ahead of the competition.

Well, the same two days off is a joke, yes; but this way businees-to-buisness relations aren't horribly affected because Corporation X is off on Wednesdays. Yeah, it makes things silly. I like having Mondays off, but it means I spend that day virtually alone; everyone else is working!

Early to bed, early to rise. Makes no difference, I suppose. However, it's hard to make adults change their sleeping habits. When I was a teen or an early-20-something, it was far easier to get 3 hours here, 9 hours there, all-nighter another day...not the case anymore. Changin my ridgid pattern is a lot harder on my body now.
 
You'd think scheduling ourselves mor in tune with light and dark would make more sense.

You see... I overslept this morning. My alarm went off at 5:30 and I shut it off and fell asleep again. I woke up and looked at the clock and it said 5:50 or so. No big deal. So I get up and walk into the kitchen and look out the window and it's light out. That's how I knew I was late. Because it was light out. So I run back into the bedroom and get a second look at the clock and see that I'd misread it. It was really 6:50. So then I am rushing around trying to cram 30 minutes of preparation into 5 minutes, making coffee as I brush my teeth with one sock on and my shirt unbuttoned.

Nobody should have to start their day like this. Biologically we are not meant to be up when it's dark. I've worked places back east in Chicago where all winter I never saw sun. It was dark when I got there and dark when I got off. Very unnatural and pretty depressing. This is why I must be rich and not have to go to work.
 
8 hours is 8 hours at work, milefile. I don't get it. What difference does it make exactly when those 8 hours are? I usually get up in the dark and it is getting light by the time I'm out of the shower. Mind you I still hate getting out of bed; but another hour wouldn't help assuming I had to stay up an hour later tonight to make up for it.

Half the people at my wife's office come in at 6:30 or some early hour, just so they can go home at 3:30. I never understood that, either - since you have to go to bed at 9:30 just to get up that early. Somehow they think this is different (and better).

During the winter there is barely 8 hours of light a day anyway, so salvaging some of that is going to be difficult. I agree, it does get depressing, though.
 
If I remeber correctly,.. it was an American, in the late 1800's who developed the 5 day work week.

I also believe that the time we start in the morning stems from the ol' theory that you start the day when the rooster see's the sun come up,...

BTW,... there's a stereotype that put's Spanish in the "wake up and goto work in the late morning" catagory,... maybe you should ask them how they pull it off :lol:
 
Night person

I agree with Milefile. I am never, nor will never be a morning person. I function much better from mid-morning to late evening.

I have to shave at night, as any morning adventures with sharp objects leaves our bathroom looking like a scene from a slasher flick.

Every 8am class I took in college I failed or dropped. Simply couldn't function that early. I took Calculus three times. Twice at 8am and once at 10am. I posted a 3.97 in the 10am class.

College? I functioned from 9am until 3am for both degrees. More than my fair share of all-nighters were pulled in that time.

But, I'm stuck in a profession where the guys in the field start at 7am and are packing the truck at 3:30pm. I'm in the office at 7am, and I usually get home at 6-7pm. Too much stuff and not enough time.

Anyways...I'll vote for milefile if he moves this towards a bill in congress.

AO
 
Getting up early is no prob...

if i go to bed at 5 in the afternoon.

Originally posted by Red Eye Racer
BTW,... there's a stereotype that put's Spanish in the "wake up and goto work in the late morning" catagory,... maybe you should ask them how they pull it off :lol:
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When i lived in spain, the locals stayed out till 3, go to work at noon, and take a 2 hour lunch at 1.
 
I'm not a morning person either. :irked: Damn school...

But i guess having the same weekend is so it comes with school because someone has to take care of the kids right? But my dad works shift, so that means he'll have days off at different times.
 
I get up fairly early compared to most people at school. I get up at 6:20, usually I wake up before then, like 5 AM, but I stay in bed and rest. I wake up on my own, no alarm clock. I just...get up.

I find that if I get up earlyier, then I'm not as tired. I don't have to rush to get ready for school, and I can fully switch from sleep to...standby, because school is basicly 8 hrs of boredom.

Even when I don't have to get up, I still get up by 10AM, sometimes I even get up at like 7:30, and I might as well be up, so I stay up and go here and other places on the net, watch something on the Discovery, TLC, Science, Tech TV, Discovery Health, and Speed channels.

Afterall, I learn more watching TV then I do at school. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it. ;) But it's totally true.
 
It'd be so much easier if I could go to bed at 10:30 or so. But 10:30 rolls around and I haven't even played GT3 yet. Last night I went to bed at 12:40. And here I am at work at 7:06. It's just not in my nature to go to bed any earlier. Weekends I'm up until after 1:00. But I sleep in until at least 9:00.

Ah... but not for long.
 
I like getting up at 5:30. I work from 8AM to 4:30PM. I don't need to get up as early as I do but I like seeing the sun come up and having a little quiet time.
Milefile. Ever consider looking for a second shift job? I did that for a while as a supervisor in a manufacturing facility. I kind of liked it for a while till I got married.
 
I would do that if my wife didn't work during the day. My dad worked 2nd shift for a few years and I never saw him. He'd be leaving for work right after I got home from school.
 
I am getting a Law Degree and so far my earliest class was at 10:30AM last semester.

If I can choose when to have my classes, why not have them later on, so I can party with friends.


This semester my earliest class is 11:00AM. It doesnt mean I sleep in until 10:30 everyday. But I can have the pleasure of waking up. Reading the newspaper, doing some homework and then by the time your bored you can go to class. My mornings are very relaxed, which is good for your soul. Why should you be thrown immediately from peaceful sleep with no distractions, into pure chaos trying to get ready and rushing etc. Its just logical to have a transition time.
 
Originally posted by milefile
It's ridiculous! What benefit is there in getting up at 5:30 AM? How does it benefit an office, or any business for that matter, to start operating at 7:00 AM? Is there some natural law that states business must be conducted between certain hours? Why can't businesses and offices be open from 10:00 - 6:00?

I realize this doesn't apply to anyone who works in service like resturaunts, hotels, hospitals, etc.

But for people like me who want to work during the day and have weekends off, this getting up at 5:30 is BS.

And as long as I'm at it... why do we all have to have the same two days off? Everyplace is so crowded, traffic is a joke, and I don't like being around all those stupid people. Why not stagger weekends so some people get Saturday and Sunday off, some get Sunday and Monday, and so on... Then it would even things out.

So yeah, things have been this way a long time but there is no good reason for it. I can't understand why humanity would bring such a plight on itself.

If I could just sleep until eight and get home a little later I'd be so happy and better rested.

Waaa waaaa I'm a whiner :lol:
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It's all relative to where you work, as you said. If you don't like it, I guess there are plenty of other jobs that don't require you to get up that early. I thought most jobs were 9-5, not 7-4, although my dad gets to work by 6.30 and comes home around 5.30... Um, maybe it's those darn roosters!

I seriously think it's because of our society. So much of it revolves around other things, not just yourself. I'm assuming you're from the US, if you aren't, you can disregard anything I say in this post. There are plenty of places in Europe where you get long lunch breaks to go back home, and by law most businesses are closed by either 6 or 8, I forget. Anyway, it's because we revolve around other things, mostly are probably our 'constant longing for the American dream,' where we try to make as much money as possible. So then, rather than coming home later, we get to watch 'quality' piss-pore TV programming, or we go to a sporting event, movie, or other things. It might also be how the schools set up such a routine that we never really snap out of it...:odd:
 
Originally posted by rjensen11
It's all relative to where you work, as you said. If you don't like it, I guess there are plenty of other jobs that don't require you to get up that early.
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When was the last time you looked for work? I mean a real job... the kind where you live in a house and support a wife and kid?

Heh... stupid Americans. Always having to have shelter and food for their family. Pathetic.
 
Waking up for school every morning blows.;) Normally i'll sleep from 11:30 P.M. to 6:30 A.M. (or whenever my grandfather wakes me up). Weekends are different though.:D Fall asleep when i'm tired and wake up when i feel like it.;)
 
I think you should just quit your job and wander the streets. It's probably a hell of a lot easier.

Just think, you could be a modern day nomad. Sweet! Commit a small crime and get sent to jail for the winter. Free food and shelter and you don't have to work or anything like that.

Yep, I know what I'm doing.
 
Originally posted by milefile
It's ridiculous! What benefit is there in getting up at 5:30 AM? How does it benefit an office, or any business for that matter, to start operating at 7:00 AM? Is there some natural law that states business must be conducted between certain hours? Why can't businesses and offices be open from 10:00 - 6:00?

I realize this doesn't apply to anyone who works in service like resturaunts, hotels, hospitals, etc.

But for people like me who want to work during the day and have weekends off, this getting up at 5:30 is BS.

And as long as I'm at it... why do we all have to have the same two days off? ....... blah blah blah...
Waaa waaaa I'm a whiner :lol:
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I find your ideas interesting and informative, and would like to subscribe to your magazine :P
 
I agree. Why does school have to start at 7:55 am? Its too early. I'd rather go to school at 9 or 10 and get out at 4 instead of 7:55 - 2:40. Grr.
 
Originally posted by Acid X
I agree. Why does school have to start at 7:55 am? Its too early. I'd rather go to school at 9 or 10 and get out at 4 instead of 7:55 - 2:40. Grr.
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:lol:

my daughter starts school at 9 and leaves @ 3

hehe!!
 
curse school bus

gota get up at 6:30.......me my parents both get up at 5.30 though even though my mum starts at 9.00!!!!!! and my dad works at home.......i tell them to sleep but they wont listen

my school is 8.45-3.00 but my bus arrives at 7.45
 
The first two years of high school I hated getting up so early. Alot of the time I would just sleep in and whenever i woke up was when I went to school. :lol:
 
I loved Middle School. I could get up at 8 and be over there are 8:15 when school started. Well, if I took a shower the night before.

I never got up before 7:50 though. Living within throwing distance of your school has its perks.
 
In the past year I don't think I have overslept once... until this week. I have overslept twice and been late for work because of it.
 
Originally posted by milefile
In the past year I don't think I have overslept once... until this week. I have overslept twice and been late for work because of it.
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GT3 related? If not,... your tardyness is INEXUSABLE! :lol: j/k 👍
 

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