I used to work in West Coast so waking up around 4:30am in the morning was my daily routine for a while. Used to hate that but later turned out to love that early morning schedule.
Problem is now I am having a normal IB life and often I need to crunch until 2am, which makes "morning productivity" not a regular thing anymore.
Any other morning person in IB? How do you maintain your morning productivity? Either in the short run or long run.
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I am a morning person too (not as much as you though). I try to get as much work done early in the morning as I can, however if nobody shows up at the office by 10/11am, it's going to be very difficult to keep your schedule as you will not be able to sleep enough.
My suggestion is to maybe adjust your schedule a bit, try getting up a bit later (maybe 6/7am) so that you are able to sleep more at night.
Yeah that's legit.
The hours at my current group are not so bad, and I would prefer to do 6am wake-ups to work on side projects or learn new skills. I don't do anything job-related though.
If you persist on waking up earlier than needed AND DO NOT NEED MORE SLEEP, do other things (go to the gym, meditate, yoga, read books)
I am on various deals with Hong Kong and Australia and we need to do 6-7am calls and I can tell you that’s super painful for me. Try to get on these international deals (for you may be Europe) and people will appreciate if you’re on top of your game before these early calls
I've always found staying up late quite painful, even when I was still an undergraduate student. Sometimes I stayed until 1 or 2 am as a freshman or sophomore, but then find myself lacking sleep the following day because I always wake up early. This might be family gene since my mother and grandmother wake up early too.
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