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I became a "morning person". Or let me rephrase that, I honestly stopped believing in the idea of morning or evening people. Whatever schedule you hold you body to, it tends to be okay with it as long as you're consistent. And bonus points if it generally aligns with normal daytime. I still tend to drift a bit later during long holidays, but I can live with earlier mornings and tend to have my alarm in the same time no matter the day if the week. Unless I had a party or something.
Also, I also became very nostalgic. The music I listened to when I was a teen remains my favourite, and I've become very sceptical of newer trends. Back in "my day" everything was better lol.
And lastly, I finally get why my parents have barely any hobbies and instead just sit around or meet up with people. When I was young I always wondered why adults didn't seem to care about learning new things. How their knowledge of subjects like math, biology, geography ,and physics had degraded after highschool. You come home after work and are tired. You need the weekend to recharge. I've already started working less (36 hours per week) and also have 36 days off in a year, which is extremely luxurious, yet I still managed to work myself into a burn-out. Unlike my parents' generation, I feel like we grew up with an expectation to be more than your work. People my age (me definitely included) seem to care so much about the hobbies. Your side projects, programming, photography, art, music, sports, etc. It defines who I am, yet I have way to little time and energy for it next to being a cog in the machine.
You can definitely train your body to do whatever. I had a job that I needed to wake up at about 5:45 for, and it was no real issue because I just started going to bed at like 10 every day.
But when I have long breaks I start naturally gravitating toward sleeping and getting up later, and that's what I think people mean when they say morning/night people. In college I had a schedule once where I didn't have any morning classes, and I started sleeping from about 5 AM to noon.
For sure. The real test for finding out if you are a morning or night person is to NOT force yourself into a schedule and never set an alarm. Then you will find out what is actually natural for you. Of course, this can only really be done when you have an extended period of time without work, so I don't think most people do it.
The only job I've ever had where I didn't ever need to set an alarm was being a pizza delivery driver working second shift. I'm naturally a night owl, so I would go to bed around 5am and wake up between 11am and 2pm. I started work between 3 and 5pm and never once had to set an alarm. I miss it dearly. Now I am on an office 9 to 5 schedule went get to disrupt my sleep every single morning to make sure I make it to work on time. I love my job, but still resent my schedule.
Your last point resonates with me deeply.
It's also one of the main drivers for my frustration with / rage against the unfair economic system we live in. Working 10-20hrs/week should be the goal, so we can have most of our days to ourselves doing the things we love.