10:30 to 6:30-7:00 for me, but that's my own choice--my boss works from home for a few hours, and then comes in from 10 to 4, and the rest of the department works anywhere from 7:30-4 to my hours.

How late do you have to stay?

I'm about 8:30-5, unless has to get done by end of business. And I'll work from home, for the e-mail oriented stuff too. I do aim to get in closer to 8, but it's not like anyone cares.

8:30 to 5:00 for me, although I'd kill to have it be 4-10 hour days.

Well, but I don't know any adults that are not SAHM who don't have to be to work at 8:00 am or before. I would think that most adults in my city/area are awake by 6, at least.

I'd say 8 am is common in Phoenix. But not necessarily in this city. Many big law firms here, including mine, start at 9:30. I get in a little after ten.

I am a real early bird, though... if I worked until 7, I would only have about an hour to myself before I fell asleep. I work at the theatre from 5 - 8 many night per week, and getting home at 8:45 just about kills me.

I was also the person, even in college, who could never understand the concept of "going out" and 9 or 10 at night. If I was at home until 9 or 10, I was going to be ready for bed!

I'm a bit late back to the discussion, but all of the talk of cakes and cookies reminds me of a bit of intergenerational/international humor that my siblings and I enjoyed as kids. The Swedish word kakor (like Sarameg’s Pepparkakor) is used for cakes, cookies and biscuits. The singular form of the word is kaka, which is a bit unfortunate from the perspective of a native English speaker. So when faced with our least favorite Scandinavian delicacies, my sibs and I always felt free to say “kaka, this is definitely kaka.” It can be a wonderful thing to be eight years old.

Officially our hours are 8:30-5:30, which is what most people do, but there is flexibility for non-sales staff.

I get in around 7 and leave around 4. The rest of the development team filter in between 7:30 and 10:30.

I work 8-5 , I need to leave the house at 7:20 or 7:25 to make it to work on time, less time in the summer when there aren't college students clogging up the roadways.

My alarm is set for 5:30 so I can hit snooze until I absolutely have to get up, usually at 6:50ish, leaving me just enough time to shower, iron my clothes, maybe put on some make up, and spike my hair. But no time for breakfast.

I was also the person, even in college, who could never understand the concept of "going out" and 9 or 10 at night. If I was at home until 9 or 10, I was going to be ready for bed!

I am kind of annoyed at social plans in this city never starting until after 10:30, practically (I just bought tix to a show on Saturday night that starts at 11 pm), but I love that, like on a Saturday night last month, Bob and I can decide at 9 pm that we want to have a nice dinner and we get reservations at a nice place (The Red Cat, FYI) for 11 pm.

This would never happen in Phoenix. Even when my mom came to visit last month I became tired by like 8 and was asleep at 9:30!

I work 8-5, though it often ends up being closer to 8:30 to 5:30. If left to its own devices, my body would never get up before 10am, which makes getting going in the morning problematic.