Night owl vs Early bird

shillelagh · 24-04-2009, 15:35

Proof that us night owls are harder workers than you early birds ....

Night owls can work longer than early birds, scientists find - Telegraph

So wouldnt it be better if we started later than 8am or 9am ... and worked later at night?

Which one are you anyway a night owl or an early bird?

cashman · 24-04-2009, 15:41

ive always stayed up late, fer differing reasons, way back it was fer after time,in later years the sodding tinnitus.

jaysay · 24-04-2009, 16:02

That's a bit of a poser really, when I was working I nearly always started at 8am, and quite often worked while 1 or 2 am the following day. I once started at 7am on a Friday morning and finished at 10pm on Saturday night, just got my head down in the van for 2 hours 9 to 11 on Saturday morning

Gayle · 24-04-2009, 16:16

I work early but then have a lull in the afternoon then pick up again for the evening - so I'm both but I reckon my default setting is early bird.

andrewb · 24-04-2009, 17:05

I'm a night owl and an early bird.. I'm normally up before 8am but go to bed after 2 :P

SPUGGIE J · 24-04-2009, 17:12

Sadley my body clock is governed by work even at weekends.

Need a

now

shillelagh · 24-04-2009, 17:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by SPUGGIE J

Sadley my body clock is governed by work even at weekends.

Need a

now

Dont i know it!!!!

pipinfort · 24-04-2009, 18:27

5.25 on weekdays for me , 7.00 on weekends (excluding hangover days)

AccyLass · 24-04-2009, 18:31

I'm up early 5 days a week
Weekends I make exceptions

Going bed late is depending if I am working or not cos I don't finish til 11pm

(Or getting drunk

)

emzy · 24-04-2009, 18:40

I don't have much of an option

Generally the boys dictate what time i get up in the morning

harwood red · 24-04-2009, 19:10

the options to vote on are a bit misleading as I am definately a night owl as in I don't usually go to bed before 2am but then on work days I am up about 7am so I will have to go with it depends on what I am doing the next day as weekends I do have a bit of a lie in

entwisi · 24-04-2009, 19:10

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I have been both. When i worked the pub game i was rarely in bed before 2 and up before 9, now i'm up at 5:15 and in bed by 10:30-11. Which do i prefer? Without children i'd say night owl, with them earl;y bird wins easily as you never get a decent lie in.......

emzy · 24-04-2009, 19:13

can we add"i have children and have no option but to be up at stupid o'clock" as a choice

Margaret Pilkington · 24-04-2009, 19:15

I think this is a very broad generalisation.
During my working life I had to get up very early.........I am talking 4am......for a shift starting at 6am(In Rawtenstall) this meant a walk from Clayton to Accrington to get the bus up there.......which got into Rawtenstall at 5.58....so then I had to leg it to the mill, clock in and set my looms on by the time the buzzer went.

My nursing career meant lots of shiftwork too.....sometimes lates, sometimes earlies, so I reckon that after a lifetime of early rising it has become hard to tell which I am.
Lifetime habits die hard.......and I still waken early......but am glad when i know I can go back to sleep.

Benipete · 25-04-2009, 08:05

Well as there are 24 hours in a day it matters very little to me what time a task needs to be done.

I am quite capable of ignoring it within the set period.

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