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Posted: 8/23/2005 6:21:16 PM EDT
I know this has been asked before, but I'm also looking for a little advice:
I've been seriously planning on getting out of NY and moving to Colorado. While I'm in Colorado, I get a call saying I got into the Ironworkers Union here in NY. It's a 100K a year job with a ton of benifits. The bad thing is the commute. I have a 2005 Ford F250 Diesel and a motorcycle and the round trip is about 1 hour and 30 minutes (50 miles each way) I did some quick calculating, and this is what I figure it will cost me just to get to work: 3 hours/day * 5 days a week * 50 weeks a year = 750 hours * $20.00/hr = $15,000 Buy cheap car for commute: $3,000 Mantainence: $1,000 Fuel: $2,250 Stress: Who knows TOTAL: $21,250 I'll have to earn $30,000 to take home that. WHat do you guys think?!? |
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My office is at home, but I use about 75 gallons a week doing sales and inspections.
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1.8 miles.
Engine's barely warmed up by the time I park my truck each morning.... Evening commute is a little longer... by about 4 minutes. Biggest down-side is that my boss knows how close I live, and they know I drive a TANK, so I have no excuse on snow days. |
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I was hoping to have one of the shortest ones at around 3 miles.
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9 miles. It takes a full fifteen minutes. Wasting my life away in traffic!
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1/5th of a mile. By the time I get to my car, stick my bag in it, lock my gun up in it, drive to work, get out, unlock my shit, get my bag and walk into work. I could have just walked if I had my CCW.
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It's about a 15 second walk from my bed to my primary office.
When I actually have to go in to my cubicle it's a 45+ minute commute as long as there are no flat tires, fender benders or people pulled over enroute then it's about an hour. If there is a serious accident....... |
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If I'm at the school, it's about 15 minutes away.
If I'm at my internship, it's 2 hours away + DC traffic. |
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Due to traffic It takes half the time to drive home at night as it does to go to work in the afternoon.
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about 1/3 of a mile...1 and a half minutes to get through the stop sign and school zone.
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12 seconds from my bedroom/bathroom to my office.
20 seconds if traffic is heavy. 3 minutes if I make coffee before going to the office. |
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If I walk about 8 minutes
If I ride my bike about 4 minutes If I drive about 2 minutes 2 stop signs and one right turn |
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Approx 25 miles from my house to the White House. No I don't work there. Usually about 40 minutes in a carpool in the morning and 50 minutes home. If I drive and take metro (subway) it is around 1:15 to work and about the same home.
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55 miles round trip about hour and ten minutes driving, sometimes more depending on traffic.
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it's a 5-7 minute drive if I don't catch a barge on the way. I stop to get a water and news paper every morning, so it takes me about 9-13 minutes in all.
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51 miles, usually do it in under an hour
Company car and gas though ! |
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Used to be 24 miles, 1-4 hours each way (worst commute on the planet, Hiway 101 and 405 in LA); had a few times with 6 hour commutes when there was a slow speed chase, 5 hours one way when shithead Clinton was getting a haircut. Now it's going to be 83 miles each way and hopefully 1 hour 15 min. After I can scrape up enough dough to move to the town where I'm working I should be able to walk to work, 500 yds, no more than 10 minutes.
CW |
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Wow alot of short commutes.
Maybe I should take the pay cuy and move to Colorado. Exchange money and benefits for freedom, fitness, and the mountains. |
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3-4 minutes, but I usually drive around for about twenty trying to talk myself into showing up
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Right now, 5 miles. I live really close to downtown Cleveland.
If I get my DC job, I'll have a 30 min. to an hour commute. That will take some getting used to, but I'll use the Metro time to read and relax. |
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Depends on where I work. Anywhere from 30 minutes to six hours.
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22 miles, but I don't go into the office every day. Depending on the time of year, I go into the office between one and four times a week.
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37.5 miles, both ways, 75 miles a day, about :45-1 hour each way. costs me between 6-7$ a day in gas to get too and from work. i drive a 02 ford ranger. every third week im on call and sometimes make the drive back and forth 4-5 times unless i want to hang around at work all day. and all OT is now "comp time" and not time and a half so im not even getting paid for it.
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21.4 miles , with 19 of that being interstate highway .
My best time has been around 17 min and the worst over 3 hrs . On average it's 25-30 min . I've had better and I've had worse commutes over the years but I find the 20-30 min trip to be ideal . It gives me enough time to drink a cup of coffee in the morning , and enough time to wind down in the evening if it's been a bad day . |
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used to be 62miles one way 1hr 15mins
thanks to OPEC I now walk across the street I am able to get a small apartment plus cable for just a bit more than i was paying for gas now it is bit less than i would be paying for gas |
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74 miles round trip.
I spend two hours a day on the road. Commute + cost of gas + 12hr shift = 1 tired / broke rabbit. |
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I'm only 23 miles from the airport here in the ATL and it only takes me 20 min. to get there. What sucks is my truck gets 21 mile to the sallon and that mean I roughly burn 2 gallons of gas to go to work and back and that costs me over $5.00 a day.
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