I must have had some kind of gene re-arrangement; I was a total night owl until my early forties, and now in my seventies I’m up at dawn every day and in bed by 9pm.
“I must have had some kind of gene re-rearrangement; I was a total night owl until my early forties.”
I got up early with my parents while living at home.
In college, I preferred the later classes and in my senior year opted for mid morning or early afternoon classes on Tuesday, Thursday and even on mid Saturday morning.
In our first year of marriage, my wife being a new RN got stuck with the shifts no one liked.
In my active duty time at sea in the Navy, I often had terrible mixed shifts in a 24 hour time period.
When I turned 40, I basically got up at 6:30 am and went to work semi normal hours. My wife started a little earlier and quit at normal times.
I took early retirement at 61 and didn’t work for a year. A doctor friend advised me to find my normal time and to stick with it.
My wife and I both got up at about 7 am and in bed by 9 pm.
I did consulting and could control where and when. Major Time changes due to working out of our timezone, just wiped me out. So I only worked in the Pacific and SW time zone until I took full retirement.
My wife continued to work 2-3 days a week with normal hours, they hired an office manager to do early and late scut tasks.
She has been in full retirement for about 10 years.
We get up at about 6-7 am and go to bed at about 9 pm.
If I’m faced with critical decisions, I often wake up at about 3:30, stay in bed and mentally address the issues.
Sometimes, I just get up and go to our family room, not to disturb her.
The 3:30 am being awake to think about issues is often an around the world reality.