How early do you have to wake up on weekdays, and does it bother you?

On the days I work, I get up at 5am and I’m out the door around 5:40am. On the days I’m off, I get up at 7am to get my son up and make sure he gets ready for school and gets out the door on time.

I am not a morning person at all!! I hate getting up early. I’ve been trying to convince my husband to let me switch to night shifts so I don’t have to get up so early.

I’m spoiled, when I work, I work 11 to 5–6
Just perfect for me!

I choose to wake up at 5:30 instead of 6:15 so I can do some yoga and meditate. I love those 45 mins all to myself.

Two days a week I wake up at 5:00 and the other three I wake up at 7:00. I am fine waking up as long as I don’t need an alarm. If an alarm wakes me up it sets the stage for a rough morning. The days I wake up at 5:00 I need a alarm.

I’m no morning person but I rise most mornings at 04:30 so I can wake up, do 30 minutes of calisthenics and then jog 8 miles before starting a long commute to work. Normal to me is never getting adequate sleep. Lack of sleep is my one vise. I eat right, exercise regularly and vigorously and never touch booze, drugs or tobacco. Sure I’d like to get more sleep but life keeps getting in the way. Anyway my favorite line is: “I’ll sleep all I want when I’m dead”. HA!

On workdays, I get up at 6:00 am. Although I’m physically fit, I am not a morning person at all, and I find it hard getting out of bed so early in the mornings. I am most energetic between the hours of 7 to 11 pm.

My alarm goes off at 4:59am, and I am out of bed at 5:06. Usually, I am in bed by 9:30.
The thing is, I have a lot of trouble sleeping. I sleep about 3 or 4 hours a night. Usually, I am awake when my alarm goes off, so it’s more of a notice to give up trying to sleep.

My daughter gets up at 6 AM like clockwork every day of the week. I have to get up when she does. Sometimes it irritates me because she’s usually just hungry and will go back to sleep an hour later. The doctor says it’s normal for her age and activity level. I wish she’d just let me sleep the extra hour and then be up for the day.

I’m very spoiled – I get up at 7ish 3 days a week and 9 on the other weekdays. I realise just how lucky I am as I’m not a morning person myself.

The latest I can wake up is 9am which sounds divine if only I wasn’t an insomniac, didn’t have animals that start making noise at 6am and a mother who makes even more noise.

My dog gets me up every morning and it’s always near 8 give or take a few minutes. She’s gotten more methodical in her ways as she sleeps in the living room in her chaise and not in the bedroom on the floor next to me farting all night.

The earliest I have to wake up is 6:45 AM on Monday mornings (when I am at my significant other’s house.) If I had to get up that early every morning, I would feel drained all week. That’s nothing compared to getting up at five. Yuck.

My mum has not shaken the “wake up at five” part of her routine. She doesn’t even have to make our lunches, get us dressed and out the door any longer. But it’s part of her internal clock now.

Daytime. It’s okay, I guess.

I normally wake up around 5 in the AM everyday, not because I have to, just because that’s when I wake up and once I’m up, I’m up. Recently I’ve been feeling a bit better upon wake up but I’ve never been a sound sleeper and I always feel like a sack of crap when I first wake up. Once I get going though it ain’t that bad.

I get up at six. And it sucks, I’m a night person, and whatever I try, I can’t go to bed early. Unless I get drunk early, but I can’t do this on weekdays, because I’m not home until evening. If I don’t drink and try to go to bed like at nine or ten, I’ll just be awake until like three, and it won’t change a thing.
I’ve always had evening or night time jobs ever since my first job, but now I have a day time job, and I still can’t get used to it. I don’t think I ever will. Every morning I get up, I’d gladly pay twenty dollars for not even half an hour more’s sleep.

Waking up sucks. And so does morning. I hate it.

Mornings. Fuck them to Hell.

My alarm forces me out of bed every morning at 6:15 AM.
It’s bothers the hell out of me. I’m used to homeschool, where I’d go to bed at 4 AM and wake up at 1 PM…

I did the early morning routine for years and years (for jobs and kids), and was never able to shake my night owl ways. Unless I was deathly ill, I never fell asleep before 1 AM, and frequently was up until 3 or later, no matter how early I had to be up in the morning. It sucked balls.

I finally have a job that suits my natural schedule, and count myself incredibly lucky. I’ve fully converted to nocturnal status at this point. I go to bed sometime between 7AM and 10AM, wake up in the late afternoon/early evening, and work all night. Perfect!

6AM, six days a week. When I naturally wake up on day seven (with no alarm), it’s usually around 8–9AM.

So, like you, I’m basically exhausted all week.

I usually set my alarm for 7.30am. I think it’s a perfectly reasonable time to get up to be honest.

I get up about 7 to 7.30 0n a work day. Any earlier than that would kill me.

Wow, lots of early risers, some by choice, others not. Yuck.

The weekdays absolutely kill me, but on the weekends I get to take a Xanax before bed and sleep like the dead until I absolutely have to get up.

Since it’s Sunday, I got to sleep until 9 AM today, woohoo! I might add that this only worked by threatening my household with endless noogies and possible death by noodle whipping before I went to bed last night.

@WWFC: Lol. On the night before my day off (the one time I can sleep in), I tell my family, “Unless the house is on fire, do not wake me up. And even then, think twice about it”.