Night people

We are trained to respond to deadlines, bells, whistles, alarm clocks from the time that we start school, even sooner if our parents are both in the work force. What does that say about us as a people? Maybe that we are well trained? But what has it done to the spiritual person that lives inside of these bodies?

All my growing up years my father tried to change me from an evening person to a morning person. He talked about how he respected farmers more than people who grew up in cities and towns because they got up early to tend their animals etc. When that didn't make an impression on me, he tried to tease me about my habit of being able to get a lot done in the evening hours and couldn't focus in the mornings. He had a saying that went like this, "Lazy people work the best when the sun is in the west."

I understand all the principles but still my body seems to have a mind of its own. Perhaps there are "evening" people and "morning" people?

I have three children. One is a morning person, who is ready to run the race of the day at 6:00 am. I was so happy when he reached his fourth birthday and could fix his own cold cereal breakfast every morning. He used to get very upset as he got older when we would allow every to stay up late to watch a movie. On the stroke of 9:00 pm, he would fall asleep in the chair, on the floor or anywhere he was at the time, never seeing the endings.

Another one of my children had night and day mixed up most of his life. He hated to get up in the morning but was able to function very well in his afternoons and evenings. There were times that I would find him up in the middle of the night just wandering in the dark, fully conscience, not sleep walking. He is in his forties and can do what society requires but still does his best work after supper.

My daughter told me that she would prefer to work the evening shift at a job but has trained herself to work days. I know for a fact when she goes to a later sift job, she is a happier person.
How come that isn't taken into consideration when one applies for a job?

I did a study to see if being a morning person or a night person had anything to do with birth time, the time of day that one was born. I found no correlation.

I remember when I was working for Farmer's Fire Insurance Company. We had many kinds of home insurance policies. There was New Business, where a house was being insured by these people for the first time. Some of these houses were in the mountains, some in cities and some in the countryside.

Some fancy person had come into this company to "help" it run more efficiently. They had figured out that it take a person .003 seconds to pick up a pencil and .001 seconds to pick up an erasure, ect. Bottom line was that in a working day a person could process 189 new business applications each day. As I mentioned before, we had many different kinds of policies having different time rates that one could complete in a day. I never seemed to make quota so I asked the other people in my department, how they did it. What they told me was that "you tell them what they want to hear." This was interesting. Everyone but Phyllis was making Quota. Could I do this with lying? It was time to work out something that I could live with.

The policies of houses in the mountains had to be mapped out individually to find out what fire zone they were in. This took time and the "Time-management" people had figured this into the factor. One only had to do 58 of these a day. Most of my co-workers hated to go to the maps and look them up. I love to read maps and am rather good at it. I can tell if you live on the east side of the street or the west by your street number so I would trade three for one so these girls didn't have to "think."

As I mentioned, I work best in the afternoon, so my plan was to look all the policies up before I went home at night and process them in the morning. This company started at 7:00 in the morning and closed up at 4:30 in the afternoon. Hey, at 4:30 I'm just starting to hit full speed.

Guess the world isn't made for me or people like me who are evening people?