Morning person v. Night person

[jaybird2001wi]

As a graveyard worker and a double shift worker who works ALL three shifts in a total weekend, I have realized that I am becoming more and more of a morning person.

I used to work simple second shifts, which I preferred, now I prefer working first shift over second shift. Now I am an all day and all night type of person since I am so used to working marathon hours.

But there is something that makes me feel good when I wake up at 5am or 6am and have a complete breakfast with meat and carbs along with a cup of coffee to start my day. Now it is almost like a weekly ritual where I wake up at 4:30am, watch what is left of the night-time infomercials and walk down to the neighborhood diner and have breakfast at around 5:30am.

What is everyone's preference? I find that I work best as a third or first shifter and now second shift seems kind of weird to me.

[sheetswannabe]

I am used to 2nd shift. I work in 30 minutes (7am), until 530pm. I am mad, I hate mornings!

[trwi7]

I'm kind of a morning person. I like watching the sun rise (in summer) and I love watching infomercials for some reason, even if I've seen them already. So sometimes I'll go to bed at like 10 and wake up early so I can watch infomercials and be up in the morning and stuff.

[berniebrewer4life]

I'm a night person. Infact, i am just getting ready to go to bed. Sun hurts the skin.

[Brian the Automator]

I'm definitely a morning person.

[homer]

As I get older, I'm becoming a morning person.

[jaybird2001wi]

What is really weird is that during my high school days, I couldn't wake up before 7am to save my life. Now I am starting to get a "biological clock" that tells me to wake up before 7am and I feel more fresh than when I was a teenager. Oh, and I am starting to become addicted to coffee.

[TURBO]

...I love watching infomercials for some reason, even if I've seen them already. So sometimes I'll go to bed at like 10 and wake up early so I can watch infomercials and be up in the morning and stuff.

seek help my friend...

 

lol

[jaybird2001wi]

trwi, when I work third shift and watch Infomercials (I do mostly custodial work on third shift at the group home I work at), somehow I have the sudden urge to purchase the H20 steam cleaner and the Ronco Showtime Rottisserie grill.

[brewers19]

Definitely a morning person. After about 10:30 PM, my ability to be productive gets cut in half and continues to decline into the night.

[Thurston Fluff]

I actually like the early morning and watching the sunrise. If I'm just going to bed. I guess that makes me a night person.

[trwi7]

trwi, when I work third shift and watch Infomercials (I do mostly custodial work on third shift at the group home I work at), somehow I have the sudden urge to purchase the H20 steam cleaner and the Ronco Showtime Rottisserie grill.

 

Oh yeah I love Ron Popeil's Showtime Rottisserie. I also like the Magic Bullet infomercial, Berman so does not drink that juice though, probably because it tastes gross but you can tell he doesn't drink that. I also like Time Life's music infomercials. The one I've seen most lately is soft rock I think with Air Supply as the hosts, Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock.

[jwill535]

trwi, when I work third shift and watch Infomercials (I do mostly custodial work on third shift at the group home I work at), somehow I have the sudden urge to purchase the H20 steam cleaner and the Ronco Showtime Rottisserie grill.

Me and my wife bought the H2O mop, it works great for tile and hard wood, and it does help with stains on carpets.

 

[Samurai Bucky]

The only way I stay up late is if I'm gaming or if I'm hanging out with buddies. The worst part about the morning is getting up. I don't consider myself one or the other right now.

[radman12484]

I'm a night person. Like to game it, watch reruns, go to bars, more sporting games on, etc. Theres just more in general to do at night.

[rluzinski]

Despite having to wake up before 6 AM for work 5 days a week, I am still a night person. I rarely get to sleep before midnight on the weekdays and usually stay up past 1 AM on the weekends. Of course, I end up sleeping 9-10 hours on Sat and Sunday, trying to catch up on sleep. Not a very good system, especially, now that I have a three month old child.

[burniebrewer]

I am both.

 

I stay up fairly late most nights and get up at 7AM to get my daughter ready for school everyday. I work second shift (til 10PM), so I can't just come home and go to bed, I've got to wind down a little.

[OldHoss]

Both.

 

I'm able to survive on between 4-6 hours of sleep. So I'm usually up doing stuff until about midnight or a little later. Due to kids, I'm usually up around 5:30. While it's rough getting up at 5:30, once I'm up I'm good to go and fairly spry.

 

My wife, on the other hand, is neither a night person nor a morning person. She goes to bed around 8:30 or 9:00 and would sleep as long as I would let her. If she has to stay up past 10:00, she's practically falling asleep on her feet. And in the morning she's grumpy and groggy for an hour or so after she wakes up (or until she gets about a gallon of coffee in her).

 

So, I guess we're a pretty good match.

[sgtcluels]

Night owl here. Except when I play golf in the morning, then I can get up at 5am chipper as a bird. But for anything else.. no way.

[sbrylski]

I watch my infomercials before I go to bed. So not a morning person, though I'd like to be.

[PKBadger]

First off, have to say that my father owns the Magic Bullet and I've seen him make salsa and milkshakes with it.

 

I'm a night person. It helps that I'm in grad school full-time right now and not working. I don't have class on Wednesdays so I'm generally up late on Tuesday nights. But even when I do have class the next morning, I tend to stay up past midnight. Can't kick the habit. Now, of course, I'm on break until Jan. 7th so I've been staying up ultra-late and then sleeping in until noon.

 

It's weird because prior to grad school, I worked for 4 years and was so used to the daily routine of waking up at 7am that my internal clock would wake me up early even on weekends. Not anymore.

 

Part of it for me is that the TV shows I like to watch are on later...I don't get into a lot of prime-time series but I like to watch Daily Show/Colbert Report/Conan O'Brien as much as possible, which requires me to stay up late. (This writers strike has been killing me - I've had to find other things to do at the wee hours.)

[hawing]

Honestly, I wonder if I'm in between. When I'm not subject to a schedule, it seems like the most "natural" time for me to go to bed is around 11:00, and to get up around 8:00. Unfortunately, my workweek schedule has me waking up at 6:00. I could not physically pull an all-nighter, not even in college. Yet getting up early is also a challenge.

 

Not to hijack, but my bugaboos are getting to sleep (it usually takes me around an hour) and staying asleep. My mom still tells the stories of how I didn't sleep a wink the whole first night I was home from the hospital, and how I stopped taking naps at 18 months - so getting good sleep has been a challenge virtually my whole life.

[RightFieldCoder]

I'm a morning person all the way. I'm tired and ready for bed around 9 or 10. About once a month I'll actually sleep in all the way to 8am without an alarm clock. I'm not super perky in the morning, but my internal clock simply wakes me up around 6:30-7:00.

[Jimbo]

When I was younger I was a night person, but now that I work for a living that has all changed. I have to be up at 5:30 during the week, so I'm in bed by 10:30 and rarely up past 11:30 on weekends. When I don't have to work on weekends I'm still up by 7. Just gives me more hours to take on the world and get stuff done, especially when the wife doesn't get up until 10.

 

[Oldcity]

I am hopelessly nocturnal.