Rise and Shine - Page 2

breakingnews · 08-02-2005, 07:26 AM

These days I cover the desk from 7 am to 3:30 pm. I'm typically in bed by midnight, up at 6, but since the rest of my friends don't have to be in until like 10 or 11, I'm often persuaded to stay out a little bit later. I get chided all the time, but I keep telling them that they just don't understand how painful it is ...

Anyway, I've always been a morning person. I'm up by 8 am regardless of what day or how late I stayed awake the night before. I get it from my parents, who will wake up ridiculously early and just sit around reading or tinkering, even if it means they will be tired in a few hours and have to take a nap.

Mmmm nappp ...

Trilby · 08-02-2005, 08:08 AM

I like to get up early and get random chores done. I'm usually up by 8. I used to work 7pm to 7am three nights a week and that really, REALLY screws your system up--despite four days off a week I was tired all the time. Was brutal. I'll never do it again. Straight third shift is a bitch, too. People just refuse to understand that you sleep until 3 or 4 in the afternoon, that it's normal for you. People would stop by or call around noon thinking I should certainly be up by now! No amount of roaring protest could change their thinking.

lookout123 · 08-02-2005, 08:44 AM

everyday is different. today i'm up early because i have to lead a seminar on a specific area of estate planning. Yippee! gimme my coffee...

Queen of the Ryche · 08-02-2005, 09:31 AM

Ooohhh... a seminar... you're so lucky.......30 people show up for free donuts and coffee, and you'll get one $1000 IRA.........

Sorry. One of those mornings. I'm up at 4:30 during the week (PST, but the biz is based on EST); 6 or 7 on weekends (2 year old doesn't sleep much past then). I know - cry me a river. I actually like it - I'm more of a morning person.

lookout123 · 08-02-2005, 09:54 AM

nah, most of my seminars are ok. i have 8-20 people show up mostly established clients, guests are only allowed by referral. i usually do $25-30K in business on seminar mornings. not because i'm a brilliant salesperson, but because the ones who are clients already tend to wait until seminar morning to conduct business, rather than calling 2/3 days before or 2/3 days after. usually the business i get is directly tied to the last seminar topic, so it is a nice way to annuitize my business.

wolf · 08-02-2005, 11:05 AM

I leave for a camping trip tomorrow. I have been trying to switch my sleep schedule around to match the rest of the world, since I have to be at the gathering point at 9AM tomorrow, which is about an hour's drive away from where I live.

That may not sound like a lot to you guys ... but it's brutal, I tell you!

I don't know what's worse ... "going" to bed at 11pm and then staring at the ceiling and the walls for the next three hours, or having the alarm clock go off RIGHT after you've gotten to sleep?

melidasaur · 08-02-2005, 11:24 AM

I've been trying to get myself on a normal schedule for about 3 months. Now that I no long work in Residential Living and am no longer surrounded by college students who keep odd hours too, I thought it would be a lot easier... oh no. I go to bed about 12 and get up at 9. 10 or 11 is just way to early to go to bed... there so still so much that can be done during those two hours.

Actually, come to think of it, I'm not on a normal schedule - I just think I am... I live in CST now, not EST.

I need a 10-7 job.

Bullitt · 08-02-2005, 11:42 AM

I used to work from 2:30pm-midnight 5 days a week in Jo-Ann's Eastern US Distribution center, I was in charge a Unit which was a 4 story structure with a line running through it getting orders filled inside the warehouse, but only the top two levels had motorized lines. And my job was to keep the line moving as about 12 other people filled orders by taking items off the stock shelves and loading them into boxes on the line. I had to then keep these SKU's of about 50 or so boxes all together and moving, all while more orders for the next SKU, or two, or three, were being loaded by my impatient coworkers and placed on the line out of order. So my job was to keep all this crap flowing by running up and down the 4 stories of stairs jockying boxes around and praying that I didn't miss any, otherwise I'd get chewed out by my supervisor because the whole line to the loading dock would have to stop while they sorted out the misplaced order into it's correct SKU. Plus there was the damn bander on the 4th level which I had to take boxes that were too small off the line and around it and place back on the motorized line because if a box that was too small went through, the bander would get a plastic band bound up inside of it up and I'd have to shut down the line, open the machine up, untangle it, reload the spool, and start it back up again; all while people are waiting for the line to move and putting more out of sync orders on the line all three floors below me.

It was hell in a warehouse...

I did this the entire night, every night 5 days a week with overtime on Saturdays if they needed stuff done. My previous position was just loading boxes into the trailors at the loading dock, but after this Unit had gone through 3 other guys who couldn't handle the job, they decided hey lets send in the kid.. I pretty much went to work at 2:30pm, came home around 12:30am, slept until noon the next day, ate breakfast then got ready for work again.

Pretty much the most miserable job/sleep cycle I've ever had.

08-02-2005, 07:26 AM	#1
breakingnews Q_Q Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: somewhere in between Posts: 995	These days I cover the desk from 7 am to 3:30 pm. I'm typically in bed by midnight, up at 6, but since the rest of my friends don't have to be in until like 10 or 11, I'm often persuaded to stay out a little bit later. I get chided all the time, but I keep telling them that they just don't understand how painful it is ... Anyway, I've always been a morning person. I'm up by 8 am regardless of what day or how late I stayed awake the night before. I get it from my parents, who will wake up ridiculously early and just sit around reading or tinkering, even if it means they will be tired in a few hours and have to take a nap. Mmmm nappp ... __________________ Gone crazy, be back never.

08-02-2005, 08:08 AM	#2
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I like to get up early and get random chores done. I'm usually up by 8. I used to work 7pm to 7am three nights a week and that really, REALLY screws your system up--despite four days off a week I was tired all the time. Was brutal. I'll never do it again. Straight third shift is a bitch, too. People just refuse to understand that you sleep until 3 or 4 in the afternoon, that it's normal for you. People would stop by or call around noon thinking I should certainly be up by now! No amount of roaring protest could change their thinking. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

08-02-2005, 08:44 AM	#3
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	everyday is different. today i'm up early because i have to lead a seminar on a specific area of estate planning. Yippee! gimme my coffee... __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

08-02-2005, 09:31 AM	#4
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	Ooohhh... a seminar... you're so lucky.......30 people show up for free donuts and coffee, and you'll get one $1000 IRA......... Sorry. One of those mornings. I'm up at 4:30 during the week (PST, but the biz is based on EST); 6 or 7 on weekends (2 year old doesn't sleep much past then). I know - cry me a river. I actually like it - I'm more of a morning person. __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

08-02-2005, 09:54 AM	#5
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	nah, most of my seminars are ok. i have 8-20 people show up mostly established clients, guests are only allowed by referral. i usually do $25-30K in business on seminar mornings. not because i'm a brilliant salesperson, but because the ones who are clients already tend to wait until seminar morning to conduct business, rather than calling 2/3 days before or 2/3 days after. usually the business i get is directly tied to the last seminar topic, so it is a nice way to annuitize my business. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

08-02-2005, 11:05 AM	#6
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I leave for a camping trip tomorrow. I have been trying to switch my sleep schedule around to match the rest of the world, since I have to be at the gathering point at 9AM tomorrow, which is about an hour's drive away from where I live. That may not sound like a lot to you guys ... but it's brutal, I tell you! I don't know what's worse ... "going" to bed at 11pm and then staring at the ceiling and the walls for the next three hours, or having the alarm clock go off RIGHT after you've gotten to sleep? __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-02-2005, 11:24 AM	#7
melidasaur Traded your soul for pogs. Join Date: May 2004 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 646	I've been trying to get myself on a normal schedule for about 3 months. Now that I no long work in Residential Living and am no longer surrounded by college students who keep odd hours too, I thought it would be a lot easier... oh no. I go to bed about 12 and get up at 9. 10 or 11 is just way to early to go to bed... there so still so much that can be done during those two hours. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not on a normal schedule - I just think I am... I live in CST now, not EST. I need a 10-7 job. __________________ I love England, what can I say?

08-02-2005, 11:42 AM	#8
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	I used to work from 2:30pm-midnight 5 days a week in Jo-Ann's Eastern US Distribution center, I was in charge a Unit which was a 4 story structure with a line running through it getting orders filled inside the warehouse, but only the top two levels had motorized lines. And my job was to keep the line moving as about 12 other people filled orders by taking items off the stock shelves and loading them into boxes on the line. I had to then keep these SKU's of about 50 or so boxes all together and moving, all while more orders for the next SKU, or two, or three, were being loaded by my impatient coworkers and placed on the line out of order. So my job was to keep all this crap flowing by running up and down the 4 stories of stairs jockying boxes around and praying that I didn't miss any, otherwise I'd get chewed out by my supervisor because the whole line to the loading dock would have to stop while they sorted out the misplaced order into it's correct SKU. Plus there was the damn bander on the 4th level which I had to take boxes that were too small off the line and around it and place back on the motorized line because if a box that was too small went through, the bander would get a plastic band bound up inside of it up and I'd have to shut down the line, open the machine up, untangle it, reload the spool, and start it back up again; all while people are waiting for the line to move and putting more out of sync orders on the line all three floors below me. It was hell in a warehouse... I did this the entire night, every night 5 days a week with overtime on Saturdays if they needed stuff done. My previous position was just loading boxes into the trailors at the loading dock, but after this Unit had gone through 3 other guys who couldn't handle the job, they decided hey lets send in the kid.. I pretty much went to work at 2:30pm, came home around 12:30am, slept until noon the next day, ate breakfast then got ready for work again. Pretty much the most miserable job/sleep cycle I've ever had. __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass. Last edited by Bullitt; 08-02-2005 at 11:44 AM.

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