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I consider showing up hours before everyone else has been a key to my success. I can get a whole days work done in one hour with no interruptions.
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Posted 9 y ago
Responses: 18
I have found that the idea of showing up early is not something that is a shared trait with the majority of those that did not serve in the military. My bosses have found it surprising that they can get a response from me when its "outside" normal business hours. Many of my peers believe that I don't do anything because they never see me doing the work, thats because the majority of my administrative duties are complete before anyone is in the office., I get to spend the rest of my day in the field checking on my crews and taking care of emergent issues. Coming in early has been a great benefit to me in the military and in the civilian world.
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I was extremely fortunate, during the last two phases of my civilian law enforcement career, to be to completely in control of my hours. I was assigned to the normal 0800-1700, Monday through Friday shift. But I was never at work later than 0700, and most days by 0500. I got so much more work done during those times than I did the rest of the day. And I loved going home earlier than the other staff personnel...and missing the six lane, bumper to bumper, rush hour traffic in the Dallas-Ft.Worth Metroplex.
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LCDR (Join to see) - I have always been an early arriver at work. Typically, I am at work at least two hours before required and typically was the last to leave. I found that I got much more done before and after the hub-bub of normal duty hours. Even when working from the office in my home, I am in it a couple of hours before required and stay in it all day, even though nobody would know the difference.
When I was working/living in Fort Worth, Texas, as the president of the company (and commuting home to Augusta, GA, on weekends), I would go to the office whenever I woke up, many times at 2, 3 or 4 in the morning, even though normal work hours started at 8:30. I saw no need to simply hang around waiting to go to work (and I was a geographical bachelor during the week). In many regards, it was like a deployment. When you are awake, you are working.
Even at military schools, like the Army War College, many students (including myself) showed up a couple of hours before class time. Just hard to break the habit.
My work ethic is such that extending my required hours (although there is actually no such thing for me) allows me to not feel guilty when I read posts and post things on RallyPoint during "normal duty hours", such as now... :-)
Just one more indicator of being a Type-A.
When I was working/living in Fort Worth, Texas, as the president of the company (and commuting home to Augusta, GA, on weekends), I would go to the office whenever I woke up, many times at 2, 3 or 4 in the morning, even though normal work hours started at 8:30. I saw no need to simply hang around waiting to go to work (and I was a geographical bachelor during the week). In many regards, it was like a deployment. When you are awake, you are working.
Even at military schools, like the Army War College, many students (including myself) showed up a couple of hours before class time. Just hard to break the habit.
My work ethic is such that extending my required hours (although there is actually no such thing for me) allows me to not feel guilty when I read posts and post things on RallyPoint during "normal duty hours", such as now... :-)
Just one more indicator of being a Type-A.
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COL Jean (John) F. B.
LCDR (Join to see) - We had about 1,500 firefighters in Iraq for about 8 years. They did a great job and saved a great many lives, both on and off post.
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