What gets you up in the morning?

[n8236]

And no, I'm not talking about getting a fix for your wet willy.

I find my job to be boring and unsatisfying, but a lot of people still do what they do because they have to. But even if you do enjoy your work, there's always a point where it will become mediocre...i'm trying to to find out if one should really pursue what they want or just get a job like the rest of the world and move on...

[dukebound85]

alarms so i can go to work so i can pay my bills lol

[Chundles]

My bladder at 6:15am to 6:45am. Just before my alarms go off....


GRRRRRR.......

[dmr727]

I still get up in the morning excited about going to work. I think you should pursue what you want to do.

[jessica.]

Usually an alarm, a thought about something, a little ... well ... yeah that ... and then the fear of God in my soul that drags my ass out of bed to my office to work all day long.

[evilgEEk]

Sometimes an alarm, sometimes a 3 year old. ;)

[mac88]

Soiled bedding.

[Prof.]

I have to peeeeeeeeeee

[sushi]

I still get up in the morning excited about going to work. I think you should pursue what you want to do.
It's always good to have it this way.

I've had both kinds of jobs over the years. Definitely try to find something that you enjoy doing.

Soiled bedding.
That's not good. :eek:

[OutThere]

Right now I'm working a summer job as a waiter...so if I'm getting up in the morning it's because I'm on breakfast shift (at work at 6:30), which means that multiple alarm clocks going off at once get me up. :p Speaking of which....I've got to be at work in 6:20. FML.

[MonksMac]

Nothing. I have nowhere to go and nothing to do so why get up early? I just go to bed late and wake up late.


Yes, I'm serious.:(

[LumbermanSVO]

When I on the road: Getting to the customer on time.

When home: Someone coming downstairs telling me we have to leave now to go play golf/get food.

[The Californian]

The morning doesn't get me up ... I get the morning up.

Okay, in all honesty ... What gets me up is knowing that others lives literally depend on me being at work, and prepared, on time. I'm one of the people that truly loves my job, and while I may not want to get out of bed ... once I am, I am stoked about the day.

[MonksMac]

The morning doesn't get me up ... I get the morning up.

Sounds like a Chuck Norris joke. :p

[jecapaga]

I usually get up happy to go to work, I love what I do and most days are not the same. I suggest pursuing what interests you but unfortunately that doesn't always pay the bills for people.

[spaceboots06]

http://www.nutridep.com/images/Lipo%206%20Black.jpg

Picture drinking eight cups of coffee.
...
...
...
And then eight more.

I am fairly certain these pills are no good for me but they're my new craze. I mean, the warning label itself takes up about 2/3s of space on the bottle. Got them the other day and they add such a boost to my workout routine it's ridiculous. I haven't seen any weight loss yet but it hasn't even been a week yet. Also suppresses your appetite, which is good. I mean, I was literally tweaked out on this stuff this morning when I popped three and went to the grocery store. I was gliding down the isles and stuff. And I woke up at 11AMish, after going to bed at 7AM that same day.

[Krafty]

Nothing. I have nowhere to go and nothing to do so why get up early? I just go to bed late and wake up late.


Yes, I'm serious.:(
I'm with you on that one.

[MegaMillions]

The morning doesn't get me up ... I get the morning up.

Okay, in all honesty ... What gets me up is knowing that others lives literally depend on me being at work, and prepared, on time. I'm one of the people that truly loves my job, and while I may not want to get out of bed ... once I am, I am stoked about the day.

What's your job?

[wywern209]

the smell of fresh coffee gets me up in the morning.

[designgeek]

This helps

http://www.canpages.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/image-of-cocaine.jpg

jk, usually the embarrassment of waking up at 3:30 pm gets me going and having a cosmopolitan at 4:30 is something to look forward to.

[niuniu]

I loathed getting up early for work after Uni, 12am was a good time for me to get up. I simply had no motivation for any of the jobs I was in.. now I run my own business, and I can't get a decent night's sleep anymore. I just want to be at my laptop checking over orders, answering enquiries - sleep is a necessary evil these days!

It's 6.28 am here now for example, been up since 5 and I love it..

I used to think I was suited for legal work, and never had any motivation for business. But it turned out that I had developed a number of creative skills and a strong business sense over the past few years and gradually it dawned on me - time to put it all to good use.

Like to guys above are saying, you have to find what you really enjoy doing and make the move / take the risk depending on what it is. People with creative jobs, jobs with lots of internal satisfaction or jobs with lots of freedom are most likely to be the happiest..

[spaceboots06]

jk, usually the embarrassment of waking up at 3:30 pm gets me going and having a cosmopolitan at 4:30 is something to look forward to.

Woo for staying sober for an hour!

[designgeek]

Woo for staying sober for an hour!

yeah, I figure I can get what needs to be done in about an hour. :D It's a hell of a lifestyle but it rocks! I was just about to make something with some whiskey I have laying around somewhere if I can find it.

[bruinsrme]

An act of God, and when that fails the site of the stack of bills on the desk

[Surely]

Unfortunately, the idiots on the K-Earth 101 morning show. My wife likes to wake up to that channel.

Although....... I'd like to play 'Beat the Pump' one day..........

[Kamera RAWr]

The alarm function on my mobile phone.

Working in retail, I'm not exactly stoked about going to work in the morning, but I don't absolutely loathe it, yet.

[KingYaba]

Death metals from Trivmvirate.

[ikermalli]

Most times my mom, but when she is busy my sister wakes me up in the morning, if they don't wake me up then I'll be asleep until someone feels like I should wake up

[dmmcintyre3]

My annoying PowerBook decides to randomly play a random song at 8:30 am. :mad:

... or the phone rings:mad:

[jav6454]

Can't believe no one has said it.

Nothing like waking up to Folgers in your cup.:D:D:D


Now, in all seriousness, the iPhone's alarm "Alarm" ringtone does the trick.

[iBlue]

Weekdays - the mister bringing me a cup of tea in bed. :o :)
Weekends - Circadian rhythm*, I guess.




*I just stared so long at the spelling of this word that I became completely unconvinced that it was even a real word. the rhythm is gonna to get me.

[edesignuk]

Weekdays - Alarm clock from hell :mad:
Weekends - Wife's fun bags in my face :eek: :D

[dmmcintyre3]

The PB also seems to be able to predict when I am in the "good" part of a dream. A nice loud beep to end that nightmare. Or my favorite song.

Although what puts you to sleep would be a better question. Just about nothing is my answer

[toolbox]

My Bladder with out fail around the 5:30am mark i am awake, really depends how tired it am sometimes i will sleep straight throught to my alarm which is set for 6:20am.

And it's great that i wake up every morning, because others don't.

[wvuwhat]

Honestly, nothing gets me up. I graduated in May and still haven't found a job. So I'll wake up at around 11:00 (now) and start applying for jobs and making calls to HR departments. I head to bed around 3:00AM after watching some movies and TV and it all starts over again. Once or twice a week I will wake up before 6 o'clock in the morning, because a local golf course has an "early bird" special for 20 bucks w/ a cart before 7:00.

[Unspoken Demise]

Weekdays for work at 8am Mon-Fri: Alarm clock that could raise the dead, followed by a shower and some waffles.

Weekends: The alame clock get unplugged, Unspoken sleeps until noon, then the girlfriend and I have some...quality time.

What gets me up in the morning? If I dont go to work I get no money, which means no paid bills. Which means horrible things.

I cant afford to lose my job.

[Fiveos22]

"The Impression That I Get" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7A8Mkg1qYQ) blaring quite loudly from my phone.

However, most days I awaken just minutes before the alarm goes off.

[rhett7660]

I can't say..... people under 18 read these forums. I don't want to get banned! :D

[techfreak85]

Work in the summer so i can buy a car,
School during the year so i can get more money and buy more cars/Macs

[iBlue]

I can't say..... people under 18 read these forums. I don't want to get banned! :D

That's okay, the word masturbation isn't censored. :p

[Badandy]

I get up for work in the summer, school during the school year.

I still think I have the best alarm sound of all time. Carmina Burana: O Fortuna by Carl Orff aka the song from the Gatorade League of Clutch commercials.

[Unspoken Demise]

That's okay, the word masturbation isn't censored. :p

POTD. ********** zing! :)

[barkomatic]

I also find my job boring and unsatisfying though I'm trying to think of ways I could turn that around. What gets me up is that fact that in this recession I haven't found anything better and what I do now pays the bills. If I got laid off or fired I would get a crappy severence and be pretty desparate after about two months.

I defintely think its worthwhile to do what you love if you can pull it off! It's what I aspire to.

[AngryApple]

The morning doesn't get me up ... I get the morning up.

Okay, in all honesty ... What gets me up is knowing that others lives literally depend on me being at work, and prepared, on time. I'm one of the people that truly loves my job, and while I may not want to get out of bed ... once I am, I am stoked about the day.
I hope I'll be able save peoples' lives when I get older. In the meantime, the alarm gets me up to volunteer at the local hospital. I work with terminally ill children. I just love seeing them smile. Then I truck along to my job who can legally pay well below minimum wage.

What's your job?
I believe he is a cardio-thoracic surgeon. :cool:

[LizKat]

This time of year, the morning light generally wakes me. Since it has been grey and gloomy most of the summer so far, I have overslept on many a morning.

Failing the light alarm, my backup is a calico cat with the face of a clown, a heart of stone and an all-consuming anxiety over whether there will ever, ever be another breakfast served in this house. She has a voice that could wake the dead.

I think the other cat sleeps down in the studio at the far end of the place, just to avoid the hungry one's tales of woe every morning. That studo-sleeper is my time-to-go-to-bed alarm cat. She likes the lights to be turned off in the studio when she wants to sleep and will come and harass me to kill the lights in there.

In winter, nothing wakes me except my bladder. Both cats are then under the comforter at the foot of the bed and refuse to come out until they sense that the woodstove downstairs has been fired up and is finally wafting some heat to the bedrooms. Then they bring their wussy little selves down for breakfast on demand.

[johnmadden78]

Three things:

- Work. I still like what I do, though not necessarily the company I work for. It pays the bills and I have many more good days than bad so I think I'm doing pretty well on that count.

- The Colm and Jim-Jim Breakfast Show. As morning radio shows go, it's actually fairly entertaining. A damn sight better than the 98FM Morning Crew, which we used to have on (at the wife's insistence.)

- A very loud eight-month old. As much as I wish I could sleep past 6.30am (not an issue during the week, but at weekends...) without hearing 'BA! BA! BA!' over the baby monitor, the subsequent sight of the little guy grinning up from his cot is a great way to get started.

[Love]

School or fresh coffee.

[Dagless]

Checking my overnight sales.
I'm on some medicine at the moment that knocks me out at night and keeps me that way into the next day. So it takes a lot of effort to just get out of bed, heh.

[arkitect]

Failing the light alarm, my backup is a calico cat with the face of a clown, a heart of stone and an all-consuming anxiety over whether there will ever, ever be another breakfast served in this house. She has a voice that could wake the dead.

I think her brother lives with us…

:D

[DiamondMac]

The excitement of uncertainty

[spaceboots06]

The excitement of uncertainty

Uncertainty is what usually keeps me in bed. Or in my apartment rather.

[Osarkon]

"The Impression That I Get" - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7A8Mkg1qYQ) blaring quite loudly from my phone.

However, most days I awaken just minutes before the alarm goes off.

I wake to exactly the same thing. :D

[remmy]

my girlfriend when I'm at her house


she brings me tea and biscuits

[Dynamyk]

I enjoy my work and my co-workers. I hate waking up because I go to bed late but the looking forward to work makes it worth it.

[Cassie]

Generally, having to use the bathroom. During the summer, this can be anywhere from 8 AM to 3 PM.

School days, it never fails to happen 15 minutes before my alarm clock goes off...and I can't force myself to stay awake until then, so I'm off for 10 minutes of unrest-full sleep and a jolting alarm. :(

[Queso]

A canine presence that lurks at the foot of the bed, awaiting the first sign of movement before pouncing.

[Badandy]

Generally, having to use the bathroom. During the summer, this can be anywhere from 8 AM to 3 PM.

School days, it never fails to happen 15 minutes before my alarm clock goes off...and I can't force myself to stay awake until then, so I'm off for 10 minutes of unrest-full sleep and a jolting alarm. :(

Interesting, because I love waking up, then falling asleep for a short time, and waking up again.

If I have to get up at 6:30 I set two alarms--one for 6:20 and the other for 6:30. I go to sleep in between. It helps me wake up and be alert.

[wywern209]

Like i said coffee in my previous post but sometimes, my 6 yr old sister come sin my room and starts being very loud and obnoxious.

[rhett7660]

That's okay, the word masturbation isn't censored. :p

Ouch..... well at least I know what I can say now!!! :D

[MacVixen]

Sad to say that I wake up pretty much every single morning sometime between 5:00am - 6:00am with absolutely no outside motivation - no alarm clock, husband waking me, etc. I just wake up :( I believe I am trained from having two children under the age of 4. those little guys have thrown my sleep off since they day they were born :D

[InvalidUserID]

The smell of my sister brewing coffee at 5:30am. She's like clockwork and it gently wakes me up in time for my morning shower, jog to Starbucks and back, another shower and then off to work.

But really what gets me out of bed is the chance of seeing this super studdly guy jogging down University in the morning. :eek:

[iBlue]

A canine presence that lurks at the foot of the bed, awaiting the first sign of movement before pouncing.
This is really adorable. He also sounds like a very polite doggy, waiting for movement instead of just creating some with a premature pounce.

Ouch..... well at least I know what I can say now!!! :D
Aw, I tease because I care. :D

[Dagless]

I tell you what woke me up this morning - a monster sized thunder storm right above our house (At least the first big thunder clap). Bloody thing. I've only had 5 hours sleep and God knows I can't resist watching a good storm :mad:.

[arkitect]

But really what gets me out of bed is the chance of seeing this super studdly guy jogging down University in the morning. :eek:

And no better reason needs be given. :D

Myself, I like to get to my desk/drawing board early so I can perve through the window at the cyclists off to work… granted, some more perve-worthy than others… but still… nice way to start the day over a cuppa. ;)

[timerollson]

I actually like mornings and I like getting up early. There's just something, especially in the summer, about the smell of wet grass and the sun. :-/

Now, going to sleep for 8+ hours is a different story. I can function pretty well with only 3-4 hours but I imagine is pretty unhealthy.

[pelicanflip]

Don't get up.
Don't go to work.
Don't get paid.
Can't buy things/pay for bills.
Epic fail.



Or the thought of a nice breakfast/cold shower motivates me. Plus, it helps if I have something to look forward to, like dinner with friends, or going to watch a movie after work. It makes the day go by much faster.

[newcronos]

My bladder at 6:15am to 6:45am. Just before my alarms go off....


GRRRRRR.......

This is exactly what happens to me. Same hours too. Every single morning!

[rasmasyean]

And no, I'm not talking about getting a fix for your wet willy.

I find my job to be boring and unsatisfying, but a lot of people still do what they do because they have to. But even if you do enjoy your work, there's always a point where it will become mediocre...i'm trying to to find out if one should really pursue what they want or just get a job like the rest of the world and move on...

I think you should pursue what you want to do but be realistic about it. The truth is that not everything “someone wants to do” is good way to make a living and fulfill your responsibilities. That’s why some things are called “hobbies”.

The other realistic part is that if what you want to do is competitive and you are not very good at it, perhaps you’re better off going where the money is. The world is about competition sometimes and this is why a lot of people “just get a job”. You might want to be the next Michael Jackson, but in reality, no matter how much you love singing and dancing, most people are not cut out for that type of work.

However if you DO have a talent and think you will get satisfaction from having success with such talent, then I think you should take an opportunity to pursue it because you never know what the future will bring. And sometimes it’s better to have tried and failed than to look back on life thinking that you were a chicken. Of course sometimes you have to weight this pursuit with present responsibilities if they conflict. That would be a personal call.

There is nothing “wrong” with “just getting a job” that makes a living. If people didn’t do that, many of society’s operations will not work, obviously. In the history of civilization, there are leaders and there are followers. Some of these leaders exhibit characteristics such as talent, passion, or simply some unstoppable compulsive behavior that turns out to be productive. The overwhelming majority follow these people in one way or another…whether it’s to make computers…or to wage war. You just have to understand whether you are a soldier or a general and be the best you can be at what you do.

[emt1]

Adderall.

[moral-hazard]

I love my job...I get in and grab a cup of coffee, fire up Xcode and go to town (software developer :))
Working is pretty relaxing compared to school. I can "sleep in" (in other words i get to go to bed earlier cause I don't have as much stuff to do), dont have to be in at any particular time (unlike class), and it's generally alot of fun. I guess im lucky to have gotten into software development since its something I can do without getting bored.

[spillproof]

My TV turns on to the local news, I roll out of bed, pee, and what gets me fully awake is drinking decaffeinated tea of the Tazo or Twinings variety.

[dbo789]

Work or school.

If I have one of those blissful days with neither, a freight train beside my bed couldn't wake me up before 11 am.

[UltraNEO*]

And no, I'm not talking about getting a fix for your wet willy.

I find my job to be boring and unsatisfying, but a lot of people still do what they do because they have to. But even if you do enjoy your work, there's always a point where it will become mediocre...i'm trying to to find out if one should really pursue what they want or just get a job like the rest of the world and move on...

My biological clock wakes me up around 5:30am every morning, even on those days when I'm not working!! Guess this is what happens when you train yourself to getup early...

[Zombie Acorn]

Some client who decided to call right at 8 and piss me off.

[Melrose]

Alarm and/or the coffee machine.

I used to have one with a timer on it and the smell of coffee would awake me up - that broke, but I've been thinking about getting another one. (note: never on days containing important appointments)

[shivermetimbers]

Knocking off a 3-5 miles on the treadmill in the AM. At some point, while running, I will actually wake up and be ready for the day. Anything before that I walk around like a zombie mumbling incoherently.

[MokSiFu]

My iPhone alarm wakes me up every morning at 7:45am but I just stay in bed til about 8:10 where another alarm goes off telling me to get up.... That's when it's not holidays. In the holidays, boredom of sleeping or when it gets uncomfortable gets me up.

[UltraNEO*]

My former gf woke me up once... Man, it's such a painful experience, i can tell you. She accidental kneed me in the groin :eek: her excuse? She wanted to switch off the light! :rolleyes:

[nobunaga209]

My kid, nuthin better...

[wywern209]

My former gf woke me up once... Man, it's such a painful experience, i can tell you. She accidental kneed me in the groin :eek: her excuse? She wanted to switch off the light! :rolleyes:

I bet you were afraid to go to sleep after that.. :D

[Kelly Craig]

My neighbor.
He MOWS HIS LAWN *every day* at 6:00am.

-shakes fist-

[dukebound85]

My neighbor.
He MOWS HIS LAWN *every day* at 6:00am.

-shakes fist-

every day? for real????

[Kelly Craig]

every day? for real????

EVERY DAY!
He stopps in the winter after he shuts off his sprinkler system.
But come watering time, im miserable....

[ezzie]

Weekdays: Since I'm out of a job at the mo and living in a different state than my BF, I wake up to the sound of the cats scratching at the bedroom door, meowing and looking for breakfast. This normally happens at 9:30 or later. :o

Weekends: Being stared at, kissed by, or otherwise snorgled by said BF. :) This either happens at his house or mine, depending on the weekend.