Good habit to have for sure.... combined with the ability to be out of bed, dressed, and out the door in under 10 minutes (or however long the cycle time is on the coffee pot)... for the first few hours of the day everyone you meet is groggier than you are and that's already a leg up over them lol
Feels like a luxury just to be able to get a full 6-8 on the same schedule daily. Back in my commercial fishing days, that's what killed me. My first boat was a Bering sea dragger and it had these twin winches in the bow, each one the size of a smart car, called Gilsons. When they started their unholy, hull-shaking screaming, you had 15 minutes to get up, chug some awful coffee, and put on your rubber tuxedo before the doors hit the stern. Then 2 hours of sorting and counting floppers and throwing the nonpermitted species back and sending everything else down the chute to the h&g crew. Clean the nets, shove them back out the ramp, file the catch/bycatch log sheet, send it by sat link to NOAA/NMFS, get cleaned up, go eat something, and go back to bed til the screaming started all over again.
Weird cycle of sleep/work, and in Alaska winter groundfish season it was statistically probable you wouldn't see the weak low sun for days on end. Just the stars overhead, flickering as each was eclipsed in turn by the roiling cloud of storm petrels scavenging for scraps. The flying pigeons of the sea.
The ONLY bonus to being the only b*tch on the boat was not having to hotbunk.