My client's team starts work very early each morning (6 to 630 am), but i much prefer a later start (ie. 9 am). They also gave me a laptop to access Teams on their network, so will definitely notice if my schedule isn't aligned. I'm trying to make the adjustment to earlier start but know its gonna be tough...any tips or ideas to help manage?

Thinking its best to adjust to their schedule for now at least and *maybe* discuss adjusting in the future at some point. Thoughts?

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You could always move east a few time zones.

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There’s this place called Europe

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Assuming meth isn’t an option Tanzanian Peabody or Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee, a lot of it.

Once you adjust you’ll never want to go back, mire gets done before 9am than the rest of the day

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You can try to suck it up. Be glad you have a job.

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I would fail terribly if I had this client

I think you should align on this situation with your manager.
After understanding if this schedule thing is a problem for the client and which are the flexibility margins of course

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Thank you, think ill do that

Do you live in PST and work with EST clients? Or your clients are legit psychopaths and work at 6am local time? I used to get annoyed that we can only schedule client meetings between 9-3 ET and never on Friday afternoons but it seems like a blessing now.

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This seems prevalent in the oil and gas industry. My last client also started their work day around 7am - I had to adjust and get to the office everyday at the crack of dawn. I was miserable.

What’s the industry? I’ve seen that type of schedule in various manufacturing industries (alights with the shift work) or oil & gas.

My suggestion is to suck it up. Client gets what they want. I do imagine most of the client team is home at 4pm their time, which might work out for you in some ways.

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It’s an industry thing, OP. They like being up at the butt-crack of dawn.

I wish you good luck.

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Had 5:15 AM calls for 7 months. This is consulting. Sorry there’s nothing one can do about it.

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PST bb

I like you K1 - unless it’s a call with Asia - no 5:15 AM calls

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I’d get your managers take on it and then go to the client. Client may not have a problem with it, they may want a few hours each day of not having you around asking questions. Didn’t mean for that to sound so harsh.

Thank you all for the valuable perspective and tips/coffee recommendations! Think I just needed to have a little pity party, but finishing that up now and ready to embrace the challenge of pre-dawn awakening!

Some of the best opportunities come from being flexible. Try to see from their perspective why they want to meet early and see where you can meet them. Being based in PST, have never been able to start the workday at 9 am in my 20 yr career, and the more senior I get, the earlier and later the hours become

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