What time do you retirees get up?

[Redmt]

I'm 67, I retired 10 years ago at 57. I drove truck for 34 years mostly at night (freight hauler).
I also have farmed our 90 acres, since we bought this place in 1994.
I have broken sleep, usually awake after 4 hours of sleep, very unusual for me to sleep straight 6 hours.
Always up by 4am and up until 9pm or 10pm.

I ran sleeper team for years. It's probably been 30+ years since I went 11 Western then retired from driving in the late 90's but the built in clock still is ticking. If I can get 6 hours continuous I'm happy as hell.

 

[jjs405]

I am the odd man out here. When I retired the alarm clock went for a swim. I have always been a night owl so tend to stay up late and get up mid morning. With our amount of daylight change getting up at a set time is tough unless an alarm clock is used.

Same here ... for the first few years of retirement it was had to "sleep in" to 0700 ... but I have always been a night owl & have no problem saying up to 0200-0400 & get up when I feel like it. I have run on little sleep for decades.

 

[wildcatter]

Anytime I want.

But usually around 5am. There are days when weather or seasons determine my activities and sleep in, but this is only from boredom.

 

[DrMike]

Well, I'm often tired, but I'm not retired. My wife wonders if I will ever retire. Physically, I'm revealing all the signs of advanced age with many of the deficits that attend advanced years. Until about two years ago, I survived on five to six hours of sleep. Now, I'm much more likely to require seven and even eight hours of sleep. I'm still a night-owl, seldom going to bed before eleven or twelve at night.

 

[grry10]

I'm usually up by 5:30, and I hate DST!