💬 I'm a night person and my office wants me at 9

My brain switches on around 11 am. Before that I'm a very polite zombie. At my old job in Toronto I started at 10 and nobody cared. Here the login time is 9. So I sit in front of my laptop from 9 to 11 and answer emails with one word. Yes. Noted. Will do. Then I read them again at noon and wonder who wrote them. Nights are the opposite. At 11 pm I'm sharp. I clean the kitchen, fix my budget sheet, reply to everyone. Last Friday I finished a report at 1:40 am that I'd put off for 2 weeks. It took 50 minutes. In the day it would've taken me a whole afternoon and a headache. Then I lay in bed feeling proud and couldn't sleep until 3. That's the price. My mother thinks it's laziness. She's up at 5 for fajr and has half her day done by 8. She calls at 7 every morning to ask if I'm awake. I let it ring and call back at 11. By then she's already had 2 rounds of tea and a long chat with the neighbour. I don't argue. She's been up before the birds for 40 years and I won't win. I'm trying one thing. Alarm at 7:30 instead of 8:15, and a cold shower before I touch my phone. Day 4 now. It works until about 9, then I'm useless again, so no real change. If anyone has a trick that really works, tell me. I've tried coffee, sunlight, and a loud song. The song was the worst. My neighbour knocked on the door at 7:35.

I'm the same, my brain starts working properly only after 10pm. Mornings at 9 feel like punishment. What helped me was asking my manager for a 10 o'clock start twice a week, just a small trial. He said yes after 2 weeks of me being the first one to answer late evening mails. It may not work everywhere, so maybe ask nicely and mention the late hours you already give.

Complete opposite here, I'm useless past 9pm and wide awake by 6am without even needing an alarm most days. My college roommate was exactly like you though, and living together for a year showed me that forcing a night owl into a shared morning routine just makes everyone miserable. We eventually settled into just not scheduling anything important before noon on weekends, which solved most of the friction between us.