Why Being a Clock Watcher is Okay! I grew up in a farm family. The clock, and even the calendar, meant less to us while we went about our work since we based our routines upon the sunrise and sunset, as well as the changing of the seasons. The clock only came into play as we relied upon timed irrigation cycles, as we worked in our school schedules, and as we became teenagers and tried to coordinate our social lives with those of our friends living in town. Then, for years, I worked in off ...