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Clearing the way for family time
时间留给家人
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."
工作越早开始，便能越早结束，也就有更多时间在孩子们上床睡觉之前陪陪他们。对于有学龄儿童的家庭来说，更是如此。因为，学生早上很早就得去赶校车，因此，只有在晚上，一家人才能聚在一起享受美好时光。虽然早起的好处显而易见，但这并不意味着它们唾手可得。艾米•彼得拉桑塔曾在出版行业工作，她说：“有三次，我都做到了早起：第一次是我在高中和大学游泳队的时候，当时早上要进行训练；第二次是在我搬到加利福尼亚州之后，当时公司执行的是东海岸时间；还有就是我有了孩子之后，他们每天很早就会醒来。总体说来，我很享受那些早起的日子。我很惊奇，原来早起可以做那么多事，而平时我在那个时间才刚刚起床。好处很多，但我从来没法坚持。最后我总是故态复萌，重新回到吸血鬼一样的夜间生活方式。”
