Be Excellent To Each Other

I am interested in how quickly you rushing types have gone from being asleep in bed to being sat at your desk/place of work.

Example: I was in bed at 8.33am this morning, and at my desk at 9.25am, with the interim including driving to the train station, a 7 mile train ride, followed by a bus ride, and then some walking in between.

How fast are you? It's worth noting my train was at 8.54am and I made it

Alarm at eight. Leave house by 8:15. Drive to work, park up around 8:25. Then I could go straight to desk, but normally go round the newsagents and bakery and poke around for ten minutes or so. Then have a bowl of cereal in the kitchen before actually sitting down.

I shower once per day. I smell nice.

I used to be able get up at 9.40 and be in work by 10, a just-under-7 mile drive. That could even include brushing teeth and a quick shower.

These days, alarm at 6, get up between then and 20 past, leave no earlier than 7, get to work around 8. This morning 8.30, the summer school holiday easy commute is well and truly over

I usually get up at 7:45 to be in for 9am. I've managed to wake up at 8:15 and still arrive early after a 25-mile commute. I really bombed it that day.

I have, on numerous occasions, made the 30 mile journey from Hemel Hempstead, Herts. to Marlow, Bucks. for my job in 25 minutes.

I am not a mornings person, which is unfortunate when you start at 9 every day.

Lets assume 10 minutes for the teeth and shower. You drove at 70mph to work?

7:48, at work by 8:33. Including a 22 mile drive. And a shower.

Door to door motorway, obviously. Ahem. "By 10" often meant "5 past 10", too. Fuck knows how I got away with it.

I used to live about 5 mins walk from my office. That was awesome. Get up at 8.45, wash, be at my desk at 9 no problem. Back at home 5 mins after I left the office as well. Compared to now, when I spend about 3 hours a day commuting.

Why so long between getting up and leaving?

I do my best to keep the period between throwing off the duvet and harrumphing to starting work at no more than an hour; the fact that I am training myself to stop skipping breakfast slows me down, but in general I try to stay in bed until 7.45 where possible, and I clock on at 8.45.

Ah, yes.

Confused. Clarify please Ace.

Alarm: 7.30am
Got out of bed: 8.30am
Leave house for bus: 8.40am
At my desk today: 8.55am

Was a close one, mind.

Ace makes money doing stuff in Second Life.

I thought he meant "wanking".

Get out of bed at 8.40.

Leave the house at 8.55.

Be in the office for 9.00.

Living just a short walk away really is a boon sometimes.

6:20 alarm
6:50 leave house
8:00-(ish) work

Although that does include a 60 mile commute.

I don't think I could live 60 miles from work. 7 miles is a ballache. It was a ballache when it was 1 mile.

My quality of life improved dramatically when I cut my half hour drive to/from work down to an eight minute one. I hope I never have a long commute.

Up at 6.45am. Faff, faff, more faff, leave about 8.30am in for 9am.

I really, really should get my arse in gear in the mornings. But I am not a morning person at all.

So my previous job before this was about 35 miles from work and involved a 40 minute commute.
My previous job before that was about 20 miles from work and was also a 40 minute commute.

I guess i've just got used to it - I've been with the same company for the last 8.5 years and have done that 60 (odd) mile drive every day

Up at between 5.30 and 6. Play with children and feed First Born. Shower. Leave house at 7.45, arrive in office at 8.45 (traffic willing) after a 33 mile drive. Have first of the 15 or so cups of diuretic I have in a day.

I could probably get up around 8:40 and be at work for 9am as it's a short walk away. As it is, I get up between 7:30 and 8 so I don't have to rush and so I can sort any consolemad stuff that has come in overnight. If there's nothing, I'll stick something like Geometry Wars 2 on.

Does your company pay the fuel bill? Mine doesn't, and 25 miles each way is bad enough.

That's because you get up at 6:45! I'm considerably more a morning person now I get up at 8:30 rather than 6.

I either get up when the alarm goes off at 7:15, wash dress and leave by about 7:30, or I snooze repeatedly, get up at 8, wash dress and leave by about 8:10.

I'm much more of a morning person now I make sure I'm in bed by 11:30pm. That gives me a chance to get eight hours sleep. I don't normally sleep through the night - the wife and cat are both awake during the night, wife due to terrible insomnia, cat due to being a cat - but I feel a lot better now I am aim for eight hours and get close than I did when I aimed for seven hours and kept failing by a fair while.

I have now arrive at the point where I can function quite happily on four hours sleep, which is, frankly, fucking terrifying. That can't be good for you.

's done me alright for the last 12 years.

Yeeeeee-es. Well.

I may start trying to get more sleep, then.

This is one sign of being a female. They are not good at this waking up and going directly to work lark.

I used to be able to do that, but I used to work 2 miles from where I lived. Now it's 30. The commute alone knackers me out enough to make 6 hours the absolute nightly minimum I can get away with.

My morning routine is awful and I'm often late for work...

Alarm at 7:00. Hit snooze.
Alarm at 7:09. Hit snooze.
Alarm at 7:18. Hit snooze.
Alarm at 7:27. Hit snooze.
Alarm at 7:36. Get up, have breakfast & cuppa.
Shower around 7:45.
Get dressed around 7:55.
Faff from around 8:10.
Leg it to car at 8:20.
Floor it to work.

I've been going to bed earlier and earlier - to the point of being in bed before 9 a few times recently. Then read for a bit, and away by 10, latest. Still fucking hard work getting up before 6.30, even with the threat of pissing off the shift-working girlfriend if I hit snooze too often.

There's no "too much sleep" or inconsistent timing at work here - originally we'd find ourselves staying up til 11 every day, we've been working back*. Last night I went to bed at 11 and found myself reading until half past midnight (finished the book though!). Managed to haul myself up at 6.20, and I'm absolutely fucking shattered.

I've always been this way, my mum used to have to shout at me every few minutes to get me out of bed for school by 7.30, and at Uni I fairly promptly flipped to a 6am-1.30pm sleep cycle. Fresh as a daisy every bastard day, I was. Even 10-6 was better, but that was with the 10 minutes commute; no way I'm happy getting home at approaching 7 now.

* Obviously it's changed for Charl since she started shifts, but when we're both on similar schedules she tends to get in bed at around the same time. Whereas her coming in at odd times, and my getting into an empty bed, is just an extra kick in the bodyclock I could do without.

got out of bed: 8:30ish.
had a shower
then I went to the train station, which is a 10 minute walk and got the train at 9:25. 4 minutes later I am in work. Tada. Not very fast. It used to be faster at uni.

Every day I aim to get up and get the 8.14 train, but somehow I always miss and get the 8.54 instead.

Totally, but I'm usually physically incapable of getting out of bed the first time or two. Hell, I'm quite often still asleep - I once tried putting the alarm at the other end of the room. I'd still end up oversleeping by semi-consciously getting up, turning it off, and going back to bed. I'm not that bad these days, but I don't get used to a 'normal' sleep phase.

I actually feel like crying at the moment, I'm so physically and mentally drained. Stay away from the Liverpool-bound M62 between 4 and 5, people.

Wake at eight. Shower and brush teeth. Clothe. Grab book and shove in satchel. Leave house for 8:25 and walk to work. Get into the library for 9:00.

I use my phone's alarm and then just keep the phone out of reach of the bed so I have to get up to switch it off.

Wonder how effective this would be? (before it was smashed to pieces, obviously)

Nope - although my car runs on LPG so its slightly cheaper (although it has almost doubled in price in the last 4 or 5 years)

When working from home and the kids are off I am up at 08:55 to start work at 09:00. When not, I do the following:

05:45 Alarm goes off

Eat Breakfast, have a bath, make lunch (If I don't need to do any of these, I will snooze the alarm a couple of times)

06:30 Leave House

06:50 Get on Bus

07:45 Get off Bus

2 mile walk (or I can stay on bus longer, and get a 2nd bus, but I end up at work at about the same time, and it's good exercise)

08:15 Arrive at work

09:00 Start work

Malc

0610: Alarm
0620: Get on bike
0655: Enter work garage
0700: Start work

I have to leave an extra ten minutes if I drive as opposed to bike, as I have to take the massive detour around Cardiff city centre to the parking area (due to all the roads being closed to non-bus-and-taxi traffic), and then walk ten minutes from there through Central station to reach my office.

I'm disappointed that you don't travel by personal train, meaty.