[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How far to work? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 4/20/2003 5:44:56 AM EDT
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Just curious, how far do some of you guys drive to work? I'd like to move eventually but I do sort of like my job and quite frankly probably won't find anything that pays better for my education and training. Also, I've been there for 16 years and have basically good benefits and vacation time that I'd be hard pressed to give up. Right now I live within 5 minutes drive of work. No highway, all surface street driving. I couldn't imagine driving much more than that everyday. Some of the guys I work with drive as much as 45 minutes one way. Just curious how far some of you drive each day for work. Is it an enjoyable drive? |
| It takes me 40 minutes. All but two and a half miles is highway. The traffic going west towards where I work is light until Cedar Point opens [:(!] I'm used to it, it's not to bad. Better than when I worked construction. At least it's to the same place every day. |
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We have people at work that commute two hours and over one hundred miles each way everyday. I use to do 22 miles each way - then moved so now it's just 4 miles. That extra hour of time at home is hard to buy. When I was living in Washington state I had to cross the Sound everyday taking two and a half hours each way for a nine month period. I would leave for work just before 4 AM and would get home around 8 PM. Gotta love the Navy. Homeported the USS Abraham Lincoln in Everett and the shipyard is over in Bremerton. But that's better then the ship prior where we were stationed in Alameda (San Francisco Bay area) and the shipyard was in Bremerton - we got to go home for 36 hours every two weeks for nine months [:(]. |
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20 miles, and it can take anywhere from 25 minutes to an hour, depending on the construction status of the high five interchange. When I moved here, it was 7.5 miles from my driveway to the parking garage at work, and all of that was on east-west surface streets instead of north-south highways. |
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Quoted: Quoted: About 350 yards. I try to walk to work as much as possible. Rick Gotcha beat.....250yds. Sometimes it sucks being so close. SRM Makes it hard to call in sick but since I own the place I call in whenever I want....sometimes I fire myself just to get rehired the following day. Having fun Rick |
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310 miles each way, and half of that is mountain driving. You drive about 35mph for several hours when the roads are bad. The company wants all of us to move to a shithole town where half the population is on welfare. We are still considered temporary employees with few benefits. Yeah, right. At work, my shack is about 10 yards from my bedroom door. |
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13 mi. each way in a moderately large metropolitan area (Rochester NY). That said, traffic is not as bad as some that I've experienced elsewhere. While I am hoping to put this behind me and going rural, I am equally hoping that I make it until I want to leave, and not beforehand as so many seem to have been forced to. We sure do live in interesting times. |
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I used to work in Detroit and my commute was 68 miles one way and about 1 hour 10 minutes when the traffic wasn't bad. Problem is that traffic seemed like it was always screwed up for one reason or another. My longest commute time there was 3 hours due to weather. Now I work local and bought a house 8 miles away. I have learned to enjoy a simple 13 minute drive to work. |
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For all who travel more than 50 miles, I just don't know how you do it. anothergene put it well: b[]That's my "quiet time", no kids screamin' and no bosses[/b] I didn't even think about the traffic. I used to love to drive but now every little thing everybody else does that even remotely looks dumb makes me mad. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: About 350 yards. I try to walk to work as much as possible. Rick Gotcha beat.....250yds. Sometimes it sucks being so close. SRM Dude thats far, I roll out of bed and walk downstairs Dude, i don't even have to roll out of bed...until they page me. Then it's 500-600 yards to campus, depending on whose office I have to visit. |
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... This is a stickler with me. Several of my colleagues commute upwards of 50 miles each way! ... What bullshit I say. That's 2.5 hours each working day you never get back. It's wasted time, wear & tear on your car, large gas bills, statistically increased risk of accidents and if factored into your $/hr it really reduces your net worth at work. ... I've been working at the same facility that I started at over 20 years ago. When I got hired on I planned on retiring with the Company and in-fact took into consideration my proximity for the very reasons mentioned above. ... 5 easy miles, no traffic jams, barely warms up the car. |
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Either 8 Miles each way or 2500. Needless to say I only make the long commute about 2 weeks in 3 or 4. (two weeks out, one or two weeks home) and my hotel is about 2 miles from work on the West coast (closer then my home-to-office route on the East Coast). It also means that I only get to shoot when I'm home in PA since CA is nuts on guns and I cannot carry into work at either end. Sigh |
[ARCHIVED THREAD] - How far to work? (Page 1 of 2)
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