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Clearing the way for family time
時間留給家人
If you start work earlier, you may get done earlier, giving you a chance to spend the early evenings with your kids before they go to bed. Particularly for families with school-aged children who have to get on the bus early in the morning, evenings may be the only time everyone can be together. These advantages are fairly straightforward, though that doesn't mean seizing them is easy. Amy Pietrasanta, who's worked in the publishing industry, notes that "I have successfully impersonated a morning person three times: when I was a swimmer in high school and college and had to go to morning practice, when I moved to California and (sort of) worked East Coast hours, and when I had babies who woke up early." Each time, "I have generally enjoyed the early morning, marveled at how much I could get done before I would normally get up, etc., etc., etc." But it never stuck. "I always go back to my true, vampire-ish nature."
工作越早開始，便能越早結束，也就有更多時間在孩子們上床睡覺之前陪陪他們。對于有學齡兒童的家庭來說，更是如此。因為，學生早上很早就得去趕校車，因此，只有在晚上，一家人才能聚在一起享受美好時光。雖然早起的好處顯而易見，但這并不意味著它們唾手可得。艾米•彼得拉桑塔曾在出版行業工作，她說：“有三次，我都做到了早起：第一次是我在高中和大學游泳隊的時候，當時早上要進行訓練；第二次是在我搬到加利福尼亞州之后，當時公司執行的是東海岸時間；還有就是我有了孩子之后，他們每天很早就會醒來。總體說來，我很享受那些早起的日子。我很驚奇，原來早起可以做那么多事，而平時我在那個時間才剛剛起床。好處很多，但我從來沒法堅持。最后我總是故態復萌，重新回到吸血鬼一樣的夜間生活方式。”
