Gutter's 1 Question of the Day 5/10/24

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

I am supposed to be in my office by 8:00am 5 days a week. I'm not happy about it being that the majority of our employees have "work from/at home" days. Typically employees are required to be in the office 3 days a week and 2 of those days are supposed to be Tuesday and Wednesday.
I am usually awake and out of bed by 5:00am. For much of my last 35 years of working I have woken up between 5:00am and 6:00am.
Part of me is cool with that. Part of me wishes I could sleep until 7:45 and start my work day at 8:00.

Question time!
I am up at 5:00am and I leave my home around 7:30am to head to work. That's 2 hours and 30 minutes of time between my waking up and leaving for work.
How much time do you typically have between your waking up for the day and your starting your work day?

[Overlander]

Up at 7:30, at work at 8:30

[pdub]

Up at 6, work by 9.

[twocoach]

Usually out of bed by 6:45, usually logged in to work by 8:15ish. Most of that is spent getting my kid ready for school. Without that I could be logged in to work within a half hour of getting up.

[TDub]

out of bed between 4:45 and 5:25 (no set time because I haven't set an alarm in a decade). out the door sometime between 5:45 and 7:15 depending on the day and the kids activities for the day

[jhawks99]

I live in the Central time zone but work East Coast hours.
I'm usually up between 5 and 5:30 and start work at 7. Disconnecting at 4pm is pretty cool.

[jfish26]

Comes and goes with what's on my desk.

On good days (and assuming I'm not working on overseas time zones), I'm not waking up before the rest of the house. So I'll sort some emails and things over coffee in the 630-715ish range, then take the youngest guppy to school and move ahead with my day. Almost always protect the 6-830pm range for dinner and kid activities and things like that, and then log back in if needed.

When I was younger, when I needed more time than this window, I would choose to stay up late. I now strongly prefer to wake up earlier and use the 4(?)-630 window to get ahead of the day and make things other people's problems.

I also am lucky to have a lot of control over where I work...fairly "up to me" whether to go into the office or not. Between driving and elevators and bullshitting and various things, going in costs me about an hour and a half a day. So every day is a simple math problem: is that hour and a half worth the productivity gains?

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

Good responses!
Lately I have really liked having a considerable amount of time to relax in the morning before getting ready to go to work. I can't say my time is productive but if I have things I need to do, I feel I have accomplished something to start the day - which is a good feeling. Sort of sets the tone for the day.

[pdub]

I have little choice what time I get up and start work these days.
Earliest work could start would be 8:20 but I need 40 minutes of decompression.

[Sparko]

Am up at 0530. Out by 7.