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What time are your work day alarms set for?

101 replies

TheChosenTwo · 03/02/2025 21:39

Riveting thread but talking to my friend earlier who was saying she had such early alarms set for work, when I asked what time she said 8am 😂 she has no kids and works mostly
from home.
Mine aren’t set particularly early tbh, Monday Wednesday and Friday I wfh and have alarms set for 7:15 so I can get ds up and send him off to school, either have a walk/swim/spin/shower etc before logging on and Tuesday and Thursdays it’s set for 6:45 so I can leave at 7:45 to get to work.
I wake up earlier than my alarms but these are my safety measures!
I hate mornings and consider myself very lucky that I don’t have to wake up horribly early and that my commute is usually 30-40 minutes in my car listening to podcasts.
What time are you up on a work day?

OP posts:
SheilaFentiman · 03/02/2025 21:41

0640, most days. Sometimes earlier.

No33 · 03/02/2025 21:41

6am. Have to leave by 7 to get youngest to school, to get to work on time.

Public transport 🤟🏼

Letstheriveranswer · 03/02/2025 21:42

Alarm at 7am, up by 7.20. Start work at 8, working from home.

idontknow54789 · 03/02/2025 21:42

6am on my office days (I aim to leave the house by 7) and 7am on wfh days - although usually one of my DCs wakes me up before that. Before having kids I used to have a 6:45am alarm and left for work around 7:30 - this was before any wfh.

delilabell · 03/02/2025 21:42

6.30. I get out of bed between 6 30 and 6.45. Two children to also get ready. I leave tje house at 8.15.

Yourinmyspot · 03/02/2025 21:43

6.55 with back up at 7am. DD leaves for school at 7.40 and I leave for work at 8.

LoopyLoopyLoo · 03/02/2025 21:44

I'm off sick but this week I'd have had 3 x shifts. Alarms would have been set for
0230
0300
0345

Shallysally · 03/02/2025 21:44

If I’m in the office, alarm is set for 5.30. Gives me time to make a coffee, exercise, get ready, drop dog at daycare and get to work for 8.30.

If working at home, 7 to log on at 8.

OrangeBlossom28 · 03/02/2025 21:44

6am and usually get up within 5 mins. Leave for work (teacher) by 7:10am.

PositiveLife · 03/02/2025 21:44

Alarm is set for 7. Sometimes I get up then and go for a walk before work, sometimes I roll out of bed at 8.30 to start work! If I'm in the office I set an earlier alarm (maybe 6-6.30am) so I can get the reliable bus/early train.
It varies a bit depending on whether I've been working out of hours too (as I'd rather catch up on sleep).
Kids are teenagers and very good at getting themselves off to school/college and get breakfast there.

InMyMNEra · 03/02/2025 21:44

7AM.

I leave the house at 8.20

greengreyblue · 03/02/2025 21:45

6.45 leave house at 8 and start work at 8.45.

PinotPony · 03/02/2025 21:45

05.00. I walk the dogs, go to the gym, get ready for work and leave by 07.15 to be in the office by 08.30. Kids are teenagers now so pretty much sort themselves out.

QforCucumber · 03/02/2025 21:46

6:15alarm 30 mins Pilates on YouTube takes me to 7am
Get kids up And ready, leave for school run 8:20, arrive at office for 8:57

Emotionalsupporthamster · 03/02/2025 21:46

6:45. Usually do a snooze or two. Then and feeding the kids, getting them ready, doing drop off and start work at 9:15 (wfh).

goingdownfighting · 03/02/2025 21:48

6:10. 1 snooze then out of bed at 6:20.

Spanielsaremad · 03/02/2025 21:50

5.50am.

sunshineandshowers40 · 03/02/2025 21:50

Alarm is set for 7:25 but the lumie light comes on at 6:55am; I'm always up before the alarm actually goes off!

ForZanyAquaViewer · 03/02/2025 21:51

8.30am. I HATE mornings. Ever since I’ve been senior enough to negotiate contract terms, I’ve started work at 10am.

On weekends, I don’t get up till about 10.

Toddlerteaplease · 03/02/2025 21:52
  1. Start work at 7am.
Hiccupsandteacups · 03/02/2025 21:52

Laughing at your friend who thinks 8am is early!!

WhatWouldTheDoctorDo · 03/02/2025 21:53

6.40 for all of us, though I tend to be the last one up. We all sit down to breakfast together, I drop DC and DH off en route to work, and I tend to get to work early. I’d probably set my alarm for 7 if it was just me.

LastNightMyPJsSavedMyLife · 03/02/2025 21:55

5.15am. I don't snooze. Up, tea, feed cats, sit and come to gently. Shower , dressed leave at 7.15 for 8am start. I love mornings.

Acc0untant · 03/02/2025 21:55

Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays - 8am
^ work from home full time and partner does the nursery run/morning routine

Tuesdays and Wednesdays - 7am
^ working from home but my days to do the morning routine/nursery run

NigelAdjacent · 03/02/2025 21:56

6:35. Coffee and a cuddle in bed then up at 7. Leave house 7:40, child to school bus stop then on to work for 8:45 ish.

No alarm weekends but usually wake any time between 4 and 7.