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[Nebulous]

I started a new job in July on flexi-time, which really is flexi. I live just over a mile away and can bike there in 5 minutes. Despite it being flexi, my colleagues mostly seem to have a pattern to their routine. There are the early starters who are off home mid-afternoon, or there are the later ones that come in late and hang about late. They seem a bit baffled by me because I don't do either consistently. If the weather's okay I like to cycle 2-3 mornings a week and go in slightly later, other times I go in early.

I'm usually up by 6 regardless, but will sit on the computer or go out on my bike or whatever. Anything other than go into work. In fact I find it really difficult for some reason to make 9 o'clock. I can do 7.30 or 8 o' clock no problem, but if I aim for 9 then I will often not get there until 10 past.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

One of my old commutes involved me getting up at 3:45am to get the animals fed, me fed and a 2-3 hour drive to work to be at my desk for 7:15am... I would not be home until 7:30pm or later unless it was a Friday in which case it would be around 9pm... I only saw daylight at the weekends for 6 months.
another involved a 2:30am alarm on a Monday morning to commute (once a week by plane) to arrive in Aberdeen before 8am... I would not get home until midnight on the Friday night, (on one occasion I failed to get home at all) and would simply sleep...

being made redundant from that job was the best thing that ever happened to me.

 

[CopperBrompton]

No routines here either.

Least civilised:
04:15 Get up
04:45 Leave for airport
06:15 Arrive at airport
07:15-ish Flight
10:00-ish Arrive at destination airport
11:00-ish Start work
23:00-ish Finish work
00:00-ish Go to bed
Repeat for 4-5 days

Most civilised:
09:30 Get up
09:59:56 Walk from bathroom to office
10:00 Arrive at office and start work
17:00 Finish work, walk from office to living-room
17:00:10 Arrive in living-room

 

[Maz]

06:35 Bus from Perth bus station

Australia?

 

[campbellab]

No routines here either.
Most civilised:
09:30 Get up
09:59:56 Walk from bathroom to office
10:00 Arrive at office and start work
17:00 Finish work, walk from office to living-room
17:00:10 Arrive in living-room

And on very lazy days you can skip the bathroom too!

 

[CopperBrompton]

And on very lazy days you can skip the bathroom too!

Ah, no. :-) When I set up in business on my own, it occured to me that in weeks when I was working from the office I could potentially spend several days in a dressing-gown ... I thus created a rule for myself that every day starts with shave, bath and wearing actual clothes. :-)

 

[HLaB]

Australia?

The original one

 

[danjanoob]

March - Daffs start to appear
April - Open eyes
May - Start to potter about and put the kettle on.

For a moment i was all like 'life sucks, a LOT', but then I read your post and was all

 

[Twilkes]

No routines here either.

Least civilised:
04:15 Get up
04:45 Leave for airport
06:15 Arrive at airport
07:15-ish Flight
10:00-ish Arrive at destination airport
11:00-ish Start work
23:00-ish Finish work
00:00-ish Go to bed
Repeat for 4-5 days

Were you an airline pilot?

 

[Crankarm]

Once or twice a week I have to do this:

06:15 Alarm
06:25 Leave the house
06:35 Bus from Perth bus station
06:45 Change at Perth Broxden
08:00 (+/- 10 mins) Arrive at Glasgow bus station
08:05 Unlock bike at Queen Street station, cycle 11 miles uphill to East Kilbride
08:50 Arrive at office for shower
09:00 Sit at desk

And on different evenings I do it in reverse (not literally).

With snow and a headwind I didn’t get in until 9.20 this morning. It’s not been fun since New Year because of some mechanical failures which means I don’t really trust my bike any more, and I’m starting to begrudge spending 2+ hours each weekend sorting it out.

My wife teaches in Perth because there are very few teaching jobs coming up where we actually live, so for the near future it’s just got to be done or else I'd only see her at weekends.

You sit at your desk for 8 hours each day? You have it easy.

Well I'm up one hour earlier than you 5:15am , drive and ride to work, do a full days active work, on my feet the whole day and then ride and drive home for about 8:30 - 8:45pm. Repeat 5, some times 6 days, each week.

 

[Cyclopathic]

For a moment i was all like 'life sucks, a LOT', but then I read your post and was all

Well it must be some sort of virtuous circle because it's cheered me up to have cheered you up. Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Lanzecki]

You lightweights.

I :

Get up an hour before I go to bed
I step out the hole in the wall of my hovel and immediately start work shifting coal for the local land owner.
Lunch is coal.
On good days I'll be beaten into bloody pulp by the slave driver (boss)
We stop when it's so dark that tslave driver cannot see anyone to hit them.
Bed time is a quick beating and curl up on a sack of coal before getting up an hour earlier to start all over again.
The one half day off a week we are allowed is shifting coal, and we enjoy out 1/2 days off.

Or something like that

Note : All of the above may be a slight exaggeration, and I may not work in solid fuel distribution

 

[CopperBrompton]

Were you an airline pilot?

I'd have started work about an hour before I got on the plane if I were. :-)

 

[Lanzecki]

I'd have started work about an hour before I got on the plane if I were. :-)

They've doubled the time they arrive before takeoff these days then?

 

[Twilkes]

Journey much better this morning, replaced a rim at the weekend and managed to true it up, and got a track pump for work, so hopefully those two things will reduce pinch punctures; and the gearing seems to have settled down too, so I’m not doubting so much that I’ll reach my destination on time (or at all). I think that’s it, isn’t it, it’s the not knowing. If only we could know the unknown. Brian Cox would be out of a job.

And I was a bit disappointed with the donations – 79 pence and a sachet of tomato ketchup doesn’t go far these days. Spare a monkey for an iPad, guv’nor?