Lately, mornings have really been pushing it.
They’re like that obnoxious friend who calls you right when you’re in the middle of something. Or a kid behind you on an aeroplane who kicks the back of your seat for one thousand hours.
They’re rude. They’re unwelcome. And frankly, they’re becoming repetitive.
I feel like yelling, “NO ONE EVEN LIKES YOU, TAKE YOUR DEMANDS ELSEWHERE,” but there’s something I’ve realised.
There is something worse than mornings.
And that’s people that like mornings.
And I just can’t understand… why.
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When I wake up in the morning, I feel like I’m going to vomit and then faint and then die.
There is never a time when my alarm clock goes off where I’m ready for it. It’s always a shock. It’s always interrupting. My alarm must have gone off tens of thousands of times over the course of my life, and I’m still not at all okay with it.
Mornings are the furthest away you will ever be from being back in bed, and that is a scientific fact. They are an unwelcome reminder that today you have responsibilities.
There are always things to do and expectations to fulfill and only 15 seconds ago I was dreaming that my dog had eleven puppies and I was just laying on the ground being licked by them all.
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As an owl, I never known a single day in life where i was up early an energetic. Never. It's science fiction.
9 to 5 is rosy and acceptable compared to the customs in my country.
For years I struggled on an ultra-morning schedule my workplace demanded, I felt sick all the time.
Until I finally got a better offer from another clinic (yes, I'm a doctor) of working afternoons and nights.
The difference is SHOCKING. I'm rested, always in a good mood, I race through an entire stack of reports with no drop of coffee whatsoever...at 2 AM.
I've discovered you can get a lot of worms in the night... at the volume I'm working, I EARN A LOT MORE than my morning-type colleagues... even got a classic car on a month's pay.
Bottomline: you never get used, no matter what. your sleep pattern is hard-coded from birth. if you're an owl, work with it, not against it. Morning peple have their merry way, they don't even care to understand.
It's like driving a petrol-engine diesel-style.
Stay away from morning jobs and you'll be amazed of yourself.
I've been getting up at 4:30-5am for the last 7 years for work.
You never. Ever. Get. Used. To. It.