What time do you leave for work/school?

[nevermore]

I work ~2 miles from home. I get up between 9 and 9:30 (I am not a morning person; even this is a struggle every day), leave around 9:50 and get to work around 10ish. The drive to work (surface roads) takes between 8-12 minutes depending on the lights and I park 2 blocks from the building, so all told, it takes between 9-13 minutes to get to work, add another minute if I had to park more than a block from my house the previous night.

The commute home takes about 4 minutes, as I take the highway home instead of surface streets. The exits just work out better going out than going in. This time is approximately doubled by the process of finding a parking spot, so 8 minutes to get home total, plus about a minute walk to the door from the car.

I do sometimes take the university shuttle, but it only comes twice an hour at the time I go in, so it takes much longer and since I'm always running late, it doesn't make much sense; I have also walked home after taking the shuttle to work, and that takes about 25 minutes to walk the 2 miles, I guess.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I do not leave for work at all.

The absolute best benefit of my company being acquired 3 years ago by a Big Blue technology company which will remain nameless is that they encourage working from home.

And given that Atlanta has some of the worst traffic in the country and my 13 mile commute used to take over an hour each direction, I was quite happy to get 2 1/2 hours per day back for other things.

Now I get up about 8:45 am and am usually on the phone by 9 am...where I stay most of the day.

Some days I don't get out of my pajamas until after 3.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I start work at 5 pm so i leave my house at 3:30, since my job is in the Wilshire District of LA.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Always at work 45 mins early to look at intel documents and Warrants so I usually leave at 0445 to get in for 0515 on my 0600 start and similar time-frames for my 1400 start and 2100 start.

It's more the "getting home" which is an issue when dealing with end-of-shift jobs.


Hugo - it's all about the early prisoners

 

[Warp Coil]

Up by 7:30am, out of the house by 8am, and depending on the day, I can be at work by 8:30-8:45am. Fridays are typically very light (this morning, traffic was a breeze).

 

[iguana_tonante]

I don't have specific working hours. Nobody cares when I come and go as long as the job is done on deadline. Usually I want to be at work around 10.30am, so I wake up at 9.00, leave home at 9.45 and then have a 30 minutes subway commute and a 10 min walk.

 

[Holdfast]

I can't even fathom getting up at 7am, let alone 6am. Those of you getting up even earlier... that's just not human!

Some days I have to be in by a little after 9, so need to get up around 8 on those days, leaving the house about a quarter hour before I need to be in. Mostly I can get up a bit later, depending on how well I've scheduled my day's appointments. Once I stop working for someone else, in less than a couple of years time, I don't plan on getting up before 10 or 11. That seems just about civilised to me.

 

[Colonel Midnight]

Up at 0430, out the door around 0530 to catch a bus, then Metro, then another bus... All told, one hour door-to-door commute. For 14 miles.

Work hours are 0700-1500 (3pm), but I usually can't leave until 1700-1730. Hour commute back across those 14 miles puts me in the door around 1830, assuming no Metro accidents or stoppages.

(Driving it is even worse -- 30 mins in the morning, up to 2 hours at night, thanks to the idiot drivers in the DC/NoVA area. )

Ergo, no matter what, I'm spending about 2 hours each day commuting -- so might as well relax on the train for most of it. And the transit benefits get paid, so that's a plus as well. )

Cheers,
-CM-

 

[Canadave]

I have very odd hours. First of all, the job I work is heavily stacked towards the beginning of the week, 10-12 hours on both Monday and Tuesday, then another 10-ish hours scattered through the rest of the week. The earliest I have to be in is 10:15 on Monday mornings, so I usually get up around 9, and leave home for the walk in around 10 or so. I'll leave a few minutes earlier if I want to get a coffee or tea on my way in, though.

 

[Captain Ice]

Tuesday - Thursday I'm up and out of the house by 7 for a 30-35 minute, 20 mile commute.

On Fridays, traffic here is "Friday light" and the trip is 20-25 minutes. Saturday mornings find no traffic on the road at all and it takes 15 minutes.

 

[Kira Nerys]

I study online and as right now I don't have a job.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Once I stop working for someone else, in less than a couple of years time, I don't plan on getting up before 10 or 11. That seems just about civilised to me.

I couldn't agree more. I would gladly work evening and night, but morning? Kill me now and be done with it.

 

[Aurian]

Kiddo and I leave for school and work at 7,05.. I drop him off first (we walk to school) and then I take the bus/bike to work. I am usually there by 7,40.

 

[Holdfast]

Once I stop working for someone else, in less than a couple of years time, I don't plan on getting up before 10 or 11. That seems just about civilised to me.

I couldn't agree more. I would gladly work evening and night, but morning? Kill me now and be done with it.

Hang on a minute. I never said anything about agreeing to work evenings & nights. Afternoons alone are enough.

 

[Timby]

I have a pretty set routine: Up at 8. Grind some coffee, get the machine going (I fill it with water the night before, and grind the beans fresh), shower. I'm out of the bathroom and dressed by 8:30. I lounge in my recliner and drink a large mug of coffee, and I'm out the front door at 8:55 a.m., for my three-minute drive to my office, and I'm at my desk at 9.

 

[TheBrew]

Up at 5:45, out the door at 6:45. Once I get my parking permit (the military wants all kinds of documentation), I might try braving driving across the potomac.

 

[thestrangequark]

Depends on where I'm going that day. I work in two schools, one in Jamaica Queens and the other in East Flatbush Brooklyn. My company's office is on the Upper West Side, and we have bimonthly workshops at NYU in the West Village. So, Mondays and Wednesdays I'm out the door at 7:15 to be in East Flatbush by 8:20; Tuesdays and Thursdays I'm out the door at 7 to be in Jamaica at 8:20; one Friday a month I leave at 8:30 to be at NYU by 9, and the other NYU workshop Friday each month I leave at 12:30 to be there at 1.
I may be moving to Harlem in a couple of months, though, which would shorten my commutes by about 10 minutes each.

 

[Omnius]

Living in a castle has its moments. Reveille is always at 6am. I get up, take a shower, brush my teeth and shave. At 6.30am I go to the mess hall, have breakfast. Around 7am I head back to my room and clean up for the 7.30am inspection. After which we usually have the appèl on the parade square at 7.45am with the whole battalion.
That's on the better days..
Last friday for example, I woke up at 5am in my sleeping bag under a cold Dutch sky (I was too tired to string up my poncho as a shelter).

 

[Maestro]

I usually rise between 6:45 and 7 am. I leave the house anywhere between 7:25 and 7:40. I have to be to work by 7:45, and it's about a three minute walk down the road, across the street and then into the building.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

Once I stop working for someone else, in less than a couple of years time, I don't plan on getting up before 10 or 11. That seems just about civilised to me.

I couldn't agree more. I would gladly work evening and night, but morning? Kill me now and be done with it.

I hear you. I have to be up no later than 6:45 to be out the door by 7:15 to make it to work for 8:30. (I'd prefer to have a little more leeway, but getting up in the morning is a struggle for me.) My company doesn't have flex time, unfortunately.

I have a tendency to stay at work until 6:30-7 despite the fact that I'm entitled to leave at 5 - I like to finish what I'm working on rather than just drop it and go. So I usually get home around 7:45-8 or so.