Early Birding

Two weeks ago I moved into a house-share closer to Manchester. Since then, I’ve had to commute to work (I’m about a 20 minute drive away). Because of this, I’ve been taking advantage of TT’s ‘flexi-time’ work hour system by starting work at 7am everyday (yeah, sounds fairly horrendous) and finishing at 4pm. The main reason for doing this is to avoid the shit-storm of traffic a typical morning between 8 – 9am brings. So far, so good, I can wake up at 6:30 and be at work within 20 minutes.

You’re probably wondering (if you’re still reading this far, that is) why I’m expressing this on my blog. Well, as well as loss of traffic in the morning – I’ve noticed a few other benefits working these hours brings. First off, I find I have a lot more time to do things once I get home from work. Like, animate some more, and… cook! Secondly I’m not hitting the tiredness wall at work so often and feeling a lot more productive getting work done in the mornings.

I feel a lot better for it, but it’s still going to take some self discipline to keep it up. I’ve also found getting up early starts to get a lot easier once your internal digits align. Early bird catches the worm and all that, right? True dat.