Do any of you commute an hour (or more) to work?

[Koing]

50mins each way...

Koing

 

[Kwaipie]

I use public transportation to/from work. $60 a month. It takes 1 hour to get to work and 1.5 to get home. I sleep on the way in, I read on the way home. I have offices in the bay area, I know a lot of people that do the Stockton to Fremont, Livermore, Concord routine. It never lasts long. I'd be finding a carpool if I were you.

 

[Nerva]

nope, once i move in, i will be 3 minutes from work. and no one from my work is gonna be the wiser.

 

[NTB]

The commute to my old job was pretty close to an hour. Didn't bother me too much, as long as traffic kept moving. At the job I'm going to start next month, my commute should only be a couple minutes - the apartment I rented is about 6 miles from the office

Nate

 

[SearchMaster]

I commute almost 45 miles each way. I come to the office early, so it's ~55 minutes in the morning, but I rarely beat rush hour traffic home, so it's between 65 and 110 minutes home. On the low end of that isn't so bad - I don't mind the time spent I just hate bumper-to-bumper, so when it's at the high end of that range it's really frustrating.

I love where I live, and where I work, so it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make at least for now. I've seen traffic steadily get worse over the past 6 years and if it gets much worse, I don't know what I'll do.

 

[Juice Box]

Train ride, 45 min

 

[NTB]

Originally posted by: Juice Box
Train ride, 45 min

I wouldn't mind doing that a bit, as long as the trains run come hell or high water. I'd hate to be stuck at work one day

Nate

 

[DaiShan]

I had a client for a few months that required me to be on site for 3 days a week, and it was ~60 miles so around an hour all told to get from my house to their place of business. Thankfully I'm in Central Florida for the time being, so traffic was really non-existant (3 lane highway and only 100-200k people in the whole area heh) It got old pretty fast because I'd have to leave my house at 6:30 and I wouldn't get home until 6 or 6:30, plus even though my car is still extremely reliable (v6 accord, only repair other than scheduled maintenance was a bad o2 sensor that was under warranty) my car is getting up there in miles, and gas prices were starting to go up. The contract ended and I now have an 8 mile commute to work on the same interstate (going the other way) and it takes about 10 minutes total from my doorstep to my desk

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
My commute by bicycle takes me about 45 minutes or so depending on traffic lights. Traffic does not affect me at all though.

If I drive in it takes about 20 minutes.

I envy you! I want to bike to my current site, but I dont' for two reasons: If I drive I can take the Interstate and it's about 8 miles, if I bike I've got to go through town and its 16 miles also I don't want to show up all sweaty from biking 16 miles heh

 

[Firetower]

I drive through boston to get to work.
35 miles from my house takes me 1 1/2

Going home it takes me from 1-2 1/2 hrs.

I am in a pissed off mood when I get home and my face is numb

 

[doze]

I commuted 40 miles each way for about 9 months couldn't take it anymore so I moved 5 minutes from work. The drive itself wasn't bad at first but it got old as quick as gas prices went up. On a nice morning the drive to work was kind of relaxing though. I listened to my favorite CD's or radio shows, drank a coke or a cup of coffee, ate breakfast, made those annoying calls to cable/electric/gas/phone company that you don't want to set aside time for. There were also those morning where I did the wake and bake and by the time I got to work I was cool.

These are the main gripes I had - If the weather is bad you have to leave home way earlier to account for slower traffic, and if you get stuck in traffic on the highway you better hope your work is cool with you being late. If you want to go out with the guys from work and have a few beers after work your screwed. If you have a long day at work or have to stay late then have to spend an hour in the car the ride home is downright miserable. Then when you finally do get home and the girlfriend/wife wants to go out you don't want to get anywhere near the car.

 

[DainBramaged]

My commute starts when I get to work.

 

[JohnCU]

120 miles daily.

 

[duragezic]

You guys have it rough. Can't believe you would choose city life.

I only know of ONE lady at work who makes a comparable commute. Nearly 1.5 hours one way, and thats average of 60 mi/hr (speed limit is 55).

My commute takes under 10 minutes, and thats cause I almost always turn off to finish a cig in the morning. Its probably within 5 miles of my house. Work at 8am.. so I get up at 7:35

 

[maziwanka]

for 2 years i commuted 1.5 hours each way (door to door) (by train).

i dont think (or i hope) ill ever do that again. it wasn't too bad though. just tiring.

 

[Eos]

3 miles / 10 minutes each way on any day or any time of day. I have 2 different start times. Noon and 9 am.

I use my car.

 

[knightc2]

Man, I don't think I could handle 2 hours each way. I drive ~58 miles round trip to work and that is bad enough. Usually takes me 40+ each way depending on traffic so it isn't too terrible. You get used to but I do wish I worked closer to home. The winter sucks somtimes (we get ~120-150 inches if snow a year) My wife is the big bread winner and only has a 5 minute commute which is cool for her.

 

[zendari]

Yeah, for the summer for my internship. I wouldn't do it long term.

 

[essasin]

Yes because of bay area traffic.

 

[Eos]

I should add that I'm considering a new job where my commute would range from 45 minutes to an hour, hour 10 each way. My car gets better mileage when not in city traffic (duh!), so my fuel bill would increase some. I currently drive about 60 miles per week to and from work. $10 max in fuel at $3.05 per gallon. If I start driving 600 per week, my cost will go to $65 per week max. So, yeah. I would only have to make $2.00 more per hour to make it worth my while. That's easy to do going back into trucking. You could say I have my Masters in driving.

I enjoy a long commute and there's no traffic where I live. Not even an interstate within 45 minutes. The time would not bother me too much. The great deal here would be a 4 day a week 10 hour shift.

 

[zinkpig]

For the last 4 years my commute would take 4 minutes by walk from leaving my door to my desk at work. Now I am in the same boat as you, my fiancee works in central valley (fresno) and I am starting in san francisco in a week. I ve given up hope of a commute. I plan to visit fresno every alternate weekend or so. My fiancee is a resident so she works like 70-80 hrs a week, often thru the weekend, so not like we get much time together anyways. Thankfully this thing only lasts 3 years. The amtrak should take me 5 hrs which should translate to 5 hrs of sleep.

 

[brtspears2]

Depending on my calls for the day, it can be anywhere between 35 miles (1 hour in OC traffic) to 75 miles (Marina Del Rey). Today I went from Riverside to Marina Del Rey. I started at 7am, I didn't get there until 10:15am. The return trip, 2.5 hours.

 

[bennylong]

It takes me 5 minutes to walk to work. Live 2 blocks from work. Sure beats the 1 hour each way on the subway I used to have deal with.

 

[bennylong]

2 hours a day, if you make $30 a hour, that's $60 a day. $1,200 a month.

That's about $15,000 a year for the commute. Let's not forget about the cost of the car with the extra wear and tear.

Oh, don't forget you won't get to spend as much quality time with your wife as you waste 2 hours commuting and too tired to want to do anything after spending 2 hours in traffic.

You end up getting a divorce, costing you half of your assets. Now is it really worth $10k more?

 

[Pepsi90919]

i'm on the road all day, does that count?