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19 January, 2010 - 18:26

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I don't know about you but I'm not often up and about just after 6.00am especially in January but this morning for reasons that are too long to go into I found myself heading to town and then on to Kralove Pole just before 6.30am. I couldn't believe my eyes the tram was packed, sardine style. Everybody going in for a 6.30/7.00am start I guess. Are these people crazy?

I know the history behind early starts in this part of the world, some Austro Hungarian Emperor couldn't sleep so decreed everybody would start work in the middle of the night!

What are the advantages in the 21st century? I guess you get a a couple of hours daylight after work, to do what?

I'll never get used to it .An 8.30am start is plenty early enough for me.

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7 February, 2010 - 12:24

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well this will sound crazy but sometimes my shift starts at 4:15 a.m. that means i have to take the bus from 3:49 which means i wake up at 3:25 a.m. well i asked people i know and at the moment i can say that none of my friends works so early but i saw other people in bus and nadraji so i am not the only blessed one , anyway the good part is that i do not have the trams/buses so crowded and it is like and alternative life, but is not normal for sure

26 January, 2010 - 12:12

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Early Risers!

I used to teach morning lessons in Kurim and Blansko and they paid much better due to the travel, but anyone who wants English lessons at 7am is in my opinion a masochist. I can barely think in English that early, fortunately now, those lessons have been replaced with private, evening classes, so I rarely wake up before 8:30 am.

26 January, 2010 - 08:52

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Re: Early Risers!

I could see the advantages of waking up early in the global marketplace if your company did business with another in a part of the world a few times zones ahead of you and you needed to discuss something with them on the phone or do a conference call.

A lot of my colleagues, including the Czech ones, at the schools I teach for completely loathe waking up early and avoid it if they can. I don't have a problem with waking up early as that's when a lot of business English students prefer their lessons, before the business day really gets rolling and they still have energy for the lesson.

I wake up early anyway as my girlfriend works for the army. She used to have her clock set for 5:00 AM, but now it's at a more merciful 5:30.

Even before I came to the Czech Republic, I was pretty much conditioned for early rising. The last job I had in Canada had me waking up at 4:30 every morning for three years. I pretty much fit right in when I got here as far as early rising was concerned.

25 January, 2010 - 13:27

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Re: Early Risers!

I love getting up and about really early. For me best time to get up is just after 5am. When I had the luxury of not working on shifts I would go to bed at 22 and get up somewehere around 5:30. No alarm no stress jumping out of bed, best thing ever.