Ugh I've always walked to my own time unless something was specifically time critical like deadlines I had to meet but even that I always put in extreme amounts of time outside of the clock structure. I always pile more in my spaces of time than I can get done so I'm always late to the next thing in the day. Only when the next thing is time critical & extremely high priority will I stop what I'm doing early to make sure I meet that time demand.

I grew up with parents who were on time to the few things they did do. I was always slow doing things partly from a perfectionist view of how things needed to be done & being careful how I did things.

Got through my BS degree & my computer engineering career never had time clock arrivals at work or going home times...just worked until I hit a good wrap it up place to go home...it worked great for my personality. Would play racquetball with the guys at lunch & we got back to work after we finished the game & continued on with our work. We never planned things on days when time was critical like meetings with our military customer. I have always been a free spirit & only when I set a specific time. Even my pain specialist appointments are flexible as they work my treatment in between other patients....I try hard to be on time as close as possible but for me 15 minutes off is on time.

My dogs are like kids also, the more I'm pushing to be on time you can bet they will make a mess I have to clean up....dumped their whole bucket of water just as I was trying to fly out the door.

My free spirit usually wins though I was always on time for classes, that was probably the only thing in my 62 years of living that I really put effort into being on time for because I knew it was critical.

Don't think I would have survived working at a job thar required set time in & out verses just getting the job complete.