At what age did you start waking up like a Dad (5am – 6am, 7am and the whole day is wasted) regardless if working or not.

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1. I’ve never thought that way. I’m 51.

2. M58, Yep, work life does that to you. Retired five years ago and I sleep in until 6:30 now…..

3. Never. I’m 35 and I will never be a morning person, that’s not how everyone’s brain works.

4. When you get tired after a days work and go to sleep around 8

5. I don’t think that way and I’m 31. If anything, I think waking up early is a waste because I’m just gonna fall asleep in the afternoon and be up too late that night.

6. I wake up at 6am everyday, have done it more or less for half a century and why should I feel like the day is wasted?

7. 26 for me

8. 36 and not got there yet

9. 23 or about a year into working my first real job out of college. Then during the pandemic I actually managed to lose the habit and regress. I was working remote and could get away with being barely functional, so my sleep schedule became completely erratic. Fall asleep at 4am wake up at noon kinda deal.

   Now, about a full year back on a regular schedule with in-person work, I’m back to waking up on time everyday. Got up before my alarm every day this week.

   I don’t know which was worse. I think the bad part is just having a job

10. 33, for the past several years I’ve been getting up at 7:30 a.m. every morning, not any earlier or later. Anyone who has a value judgment to cast on that can #fightme

11. 17 had to work and go to U of A @ Lr m.s. have been getting up @ 6am since even on my days off

12. Wasted why?

13. 19.

14. I’ve been waking up between 4-630am since I was a kid. The latest I’ll sleep is 730-8am and only if I’m sick or stayed out late. My best thinking and energy is early morning time.

15. hasn’t happened yet. im usually night shift so I sleep till 2 before my shift at 3

16. I can wake up at 11 on Sundays no problem. All it takes is a bit of alcohol and staying up late for whatever reason.

17. since 8 y/o my mom and grandma train us siblings to wake up 3:30 to 4:00 am even weekends or no classes if late they whip us with bamboo stick ff my body clock always on time even i exhausted or drunk that night its like goodshit of training.

18. As a kid used to wake up at 6am do my homework then make breakfast with my dad and then go out and play with friends.

    Highschool it was a toss up between getting drunk and playing runescape till 3am and up for school at 7.30 which made me hate mornings. Started waking up at 12 – 2pm now I’m 7.30 weekdays and 12 on weekends unless I have to do something lol.

    It’s easy if you go to bed between 9 and 11 waking up is easy if you go to bed between 12 and 5 am it’s hell but you get to stay up late doin shit with noone bothering you I think that’s why teenagers end up doing it and fuck sleep cos ur mum pisses you off during the day.

19. Hasn’t happened yet. I wake up at 5am for work mon-fri. Saturday and Sunday I don’t get up till like 10am. Been a dad 2 years now.

20. I wake up at 6 everyday for work and only been thinking about the weekends so i can sleep in. Not the opposite XD

21. As someone who worked a lot of morning shifts(start at 6 a.m.), I got pretty used to waking up around 4 a.m.

22. Started waking around 6 when I was 16. Started shift work at 21, needing to wake up at 4:30. Stayed that way ever since.

    A lay-in for me is 6 am. Usually up and about by 5:30 latest. I enjoy that hour or so before the kids get up.

23. I don’t. On weekdays I go to bed too late and wake up early and on the weekends I sleep until 10-10:30.
    When I had corona I didn’t set an alarm and I didn’t look at the time that much. Apparently my biological clock is set at 8:30

24. I’m 37 and if I’m not waking up for work, a car show or to go snowboarding I’m aggravated If I wake up before 10am. I want my sleep.

25. I’ve been getting up at 6am since I was 17 🤷🏼‍♂️ My weekends are my sleep in days, wake me up and they’ll never see or hear from you again.

26. 12.

    Class started at 7:30 and I’m most productive in the morning.

27. I always woke up around 6-7 a.m., since I was a child. I used to envy my friends who can sleep in till 10 when I was younger, not so much now.

28. My Brian isn’t really on until after lunch.

29. 34 here, no kids yet and have been that way since my early to mid 20’s. Usually awake ready to go between 330-5, depending how late I’m up. Usually in bed anywhere from 9-1030

30. Marine Corps changed all that sleeping in stuff for me, so, 20?

31. In my 20s. No better way to start the day than a 5 am workout

32. I’m 53 and in the last 5 or so years I wake up with the sunrise (even with heavy shades closed), and I’m not going back to sleep no matter how long I lay there.

    Might as well get up and get shit done. 🙂

33. 22 after I graduated from college. Wake up promptly at 7am and work until 5pm. I usually don’t stay up past 12 anymore since I’m wiped out from work. The frat party days are definitely behind me lol

34. 41, still hasn’t happened

35. Wait, people actually think like this?

    I’m a night owl, but I unfortunately need to be up for work each day around 6:30. On the weekends, I get annoyed when I wake up that early. It’s a struggle for me, because no matter what time I try to go to bed, I don’t fall asleep until 11pm at the earliest. Most of the time I fall asleep between 12 and 1am.

36. In my 40’s and can sleep in until 10 am like a champ

37. When I became a dad and wasn’t allowed to sleep.

38. When I got a job that required me to be at work at 0600

39. Don’t think it’s just the men

40. bruh i start working from home at 9AM, i won’t get up until like 8am and that’s just because i want to take a dump and grab a coffe before start (not in this order) otherwise i would totally wake up at 8:55. that totally depends on your life habits.

41. 21. A few months after I graduated college.

42. I feel irresponsible if I sleep past 5 or so. The latest I’ll wake up is 6:15.

    On Saturday, I try to go to Dunkin before the kids wake up and meet them for Saturday morning cartoons (MLP and old-school *Batman The Animated Series* lately) and do Donuts With Dad. I try to give my beleaguered wife a chance to sleep in.

    But 6/7 days a week I’m up at 4:45 to make it to the gym when they open at 5 so I can be back to make my family breakfast and get ahead on emails/Slack messages.

    I also get bitchy if I oversleep. I’ve been this way since I was 22 or so.

43. 30 and not there yet, but I did notice in my mid to late 20’s that I started getting up much earlier than when I was younger.

44. Never thought of it like that.

45. I work different shifts. Some days my shift starts at 6:30 and some it starts at 14:30; you bet your ass that I sleep in and enjoy the privilege whenever I have afternoon shifts.

    32yo, here. Having a fluid sleep schedule is one of my unofficial benefits; seriously, you try sleeping in, being on your phone for a bit and then head to work and not feel like it’s halfway a vacation day.

46. I’ve always been a morning person. Lately I’ve been getting up around 5 or 5:30 and I go work out before work and I love my schedule.

47. Never.

    As soon as I was out the army I started sleeping until 0900 unless I was working.

48. 22.