How far is your daily commute?
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35 miles one way. 45 minutes reguardless of morning or evening. Been doing it for 10 months and it not that bad but closer is always better.
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Highmarker
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45 miles. get 30 minutes paid drive time in the morning and 30 minutes at night. 10 hour shift...9 hours work. plus company truck, company fuel...can't complain much about that
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Supplicate
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I commute roughly 1,000 miles to get to work, used to be around 4,000 miles, thank god for commuter flights. Once there I commute about 200 yards from my bunk to my office, do some driving throughout the day but most of the work areas are close to camp.
Just got myself a aprtment for the winter. 5 miles from the ski mountain, and a reserved parking spot in the front row!
54 feet it really sucks 
half hour each way. I enjoy it, one lane highway all the way in.
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60' or 2 30' stints if a deuce is required before a coffee!
30 min there....45 home.....61 miles round ttrip......mostly e way into n.side of city.
unless see a hot little thing, and beat the clown down and have to stop for a tissue...... kids keep stealing all my baby wipes
unless see a hot little thing, and beat the clown down and have to stop for a tissue...... kids keep stealing all my baby wipes
I think there are a number of things to consider. I started my current job at our corp offices and was commuting 55 miles one way, 5 days a week. It was interstate driving, so once I got on the interstate I set the cruise at 80 and maybe once a week I would have to tap the breaks waiting for someone to pass slower traffic. That made my commute about 45 min each way morn and night. I also have 2 kids and a wife that works at the hospital so her hours are 7am-8pm or 7pm-8am, which means the days or nights she works, I have to get the kids ready for school and daycare, feed them, get them to daycare on time, and get my butt on the road by 7:10 so I can be at work by 8. If she works days I have to be back home by 6 because daycare closes then, so I would have to leave the office no later than 5 because traffic getting out of work can back up around that time. Not a huge deal but when I have meetings until 5 and they go late, it was always a stressful mad rush to get out of the office and get the kids picked up on time. It also was more expensive to need before and after school care, where now that I work in the same city I can drop the oldest off at school and go straight to work from there.
With all that being said, my commute wasn’t bad at all. I would listen to Bob and Tom in the morning mixed in with some tunes, and listen to the Jason Ellis show on XM on the way home so a lot of days I wish my drive was longer! Now that I am working in our local office my commute is about 10 miles to the other side of town and takes about 20 minutes each way.
I think if the pay is enough to offset the cost of commuting, you don’t have kids or have kids but have a schedule with your wife that won’t make you pull your hair out, and you will like the job more….go for it!
Just some tips I learned: 1) if you have a nice vehicle you don’t want to rack a ton of miles on, get a cheap, reliable, car that you can stack the miles on and not have to worry about. I found a 96 toyota camery for $1500 that I drove for the 9 months I commuted: 20,000 miles, (2) $40 tires, and routine oil changes and once I got a job back in town I sold it for $1400. 2) Get XM radio, nothing worse than being stuck in a car with crap playing on the radio when you’re sick of all the songs on your iPod or CDs. 3) Factor in not only the extra cost of gas, but also oil changes (you’ll be doing them about once a month), tires, and other misc auto cost. Also figure you’re going to have mornings where you are running late and need to grab a bite to eat and a coffee for the road (unless you already do that) .
With all that being said, my commute wasn’t bad at all. I would listen to Bob and Tom in the morning mixed in with some tunes, and listen to the Jason Ellis show on XM on the way home so a lot of days I wish my drive was longer! Now that I am working in our local office my commute is about 10 miles to the other side of town and takes about 20 minutes each way.
I think if the pay is enough to offset the cost of commuting, you don’t have kids or have kids but have a schedule with your wife that won’t make you pull your hair out, and you will like the job more….go for it!
Just some tips I learned: 1) if you have a nice vehicle you don’t want to rack a ton of miles on, get a cheap, reliable, car that you can stack the miles on and not have to worry about. I found a 96 toyota camery for $1500 that I drove for the 9 months I commuted: 20,000 miles, (2) $40 tires, and routine oil changes and once I got a job back in town I sold it for $1400. 2) Get XM radio, nothing worse than being stuck in a car with crap playing on the radio when you’re sick of all the songs on your iPod or CDs. 3) Factor in not only the extra cost of gas, but also oil changes (you’ll be doing them about once a month), tires, and other misc auto cost. Also figure you’re going to have mornings where you are running late and need to grab a bite to eat and a coffee for the road (unless you already do that) .
My communte is around an hour each way, but once there, I spend ten hours in my truck, so it gets old real fast.... The drive isn't bad at all, just me on the dirt roads. I'd say if the job is interesting, and you have the means to commute that far, i'd go for it! Good luck!
Ten miles 30 minutes 2 stop sign's.next month who know's
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25' or 30'... depends on what door I go out...
If I go to the shop, it's 6 minutes, two stop signs, two rights, one left... commute after that?? it changes weekly, daily sometimes. Today: ZERO Tomorrow..? we'll see.
If I go to the shop, it's 6 minutes, two stop signs, two rights, one left... commute after that?? it changes weekly, daily sometimes. Today: ZERO Tomorrow..? we'll see.
27 miles one way.
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