What's the furthest you would drive for a job

[SacrosanctFiend]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: SacrosanctFiend
I was just offered a position with a global corporation making 25% more than I currently do. The only problem is it's 40 miles away, one-way. I'm really debating over whether or not I should take this job...just looking for some opinions on distance. This is second real job, and the first one with any kind of distance away from my home, that I've had.

How is traffic on that drive?

I'd consider moving closer if traffic is bad or just stay at your current job.

It's against traffic, all highway. When people are coming into town for work, I would be leaving town, and vice-versa. I would be able to move closer (though not too much, I love living in the city) in May after our lease expires.

 

[Rage187]

25 miles

 

[mrkun]

Everyone, the OP hasn't told us how far/long he's driving to work currently. If he's currently driving 25 minutes and 20 miles to work every day, his marginal travel time and marginal annual mileage are only 20 minutes per day and 10,000 miles, respectively.

 

[jpeyton]

80 miles roundtrip is at least two hours out of your day driving.

That is two hours, per day, of your life wasted sitting in a car. In other words, one month out of your entire year will be spent driving to/from work.

That's not acceptable to me at all.

 

[mrkun]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
80 miles roundtrip is at least two hours out of your day driving.

That is two hours, per day, of your life wasted sitting in a car. In other words, one month out of your entire year will be spent driving to/from work.

That's not acceptable to me at all.

He already said it's a 45-minute drive one way, and you also don't know what distance he is driving currently.

 

[vi edit]

Nothing really new to add to the thread other than it really depends on what sort of improvement in life I would see with the extra 25% and how much of time I'd be adding over my current commute.

Assumption: I make $1000 a week (gross for easy figuring) with a 10 mile round trip commute and work 40 hours a week. I spend 30 minutes round trip commuting each day. I burn about 3 gallons of gas for my typical weekly commute. That's $9.

$1000 - $9/42.5(hours/wk + commute) = $23/hr

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Assumption: I make $1250 a week with an 80 mile round trip commute.

80 x 5 = 400 miles. 400 miles/ 25MPG = 16 gallons. 16*3 = $48

I'm also burning up 1.5 hours a day, 7.5 hours a week.

$1250 - $48 / 47.5 = $25/hr

I make $2 more an hour, which is more like an 8% increase.

I personally wouldn't do it.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: mrkun
Mileage means nothing. How much time will it typically take you to get to and from work each day?

Edit: In other words, is that a 30-minute drive or a 2-hour one?

Exactly ... I commuted from the New Haven CT area down to Stamford for awhile (approx 38 miles door-to-door) & although the distance itself was livable, the insane daily traffic on I-95 turned the +/- 30 minute drive into a 1.5 to 2+ hour nightmare unless I wanted to take a train.

Fortunately it was a contract job & when it ended I was happy to see it go despite making pretty good money.