Those of you who train it to client. What do you do at other end if client isnt within easy walking distance? (Assuming its not London with tube etc).
Do you bus/taxi?
Do you bus/taxi?
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Current ClientCo is 8 mile round trip everyday.
I was doing Chester -> Liverpool everyday, driving from Chester to Hooton and then Hooton to Liverpool by train, roughly 50mins but the train was always packed on the way home. You had the odd bit of eye candy to check out which wasn't that bad
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Clearly the Mrs was nuts.......Originally posted by psychocandy View Post"You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JRComment
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Live in Scotland, work in NL.
Drive to airport 1h30, allow 30m safety factor. 1h checkin/security etc, 1h30 flight, 30m getting out at AMS, 2h40 train. So my weekly commute is getting on for 8 hours each way. More if I miss a train, or it is late, or replaced by a bus around Zwolle
Add in the 1h time difference (admittedly recouped on Friday) and getting in "early" on Monday is not an option.
I don't want to fly out on Sunday either. Leaving home on Sunday evening would be one thing, but I'd have to leave at the start of the afternoon. Not much of a weekend then.
My partner doesn't want to move and is alas not always sympathetic, i.e. it's my own fault for not getting a real job.....Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.Comment
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But partner likes the money I guess.....Originally posted by Ignis Fatuus View PostLive in Scotland, work in NL.
Drive to airport 1h30, allow 30m safety factor. 1h checkin/security etc, 1h30 flight, 30m getting out at AMS, 2h40 train. So my weekly commute is getting on for 8 hours each way. More if I miss a train, or it is late, or replaced by a bus around Zwolle
Add in the 1h time difference (admittedly recouped on Friday) and getting in "early" on Monday is not an option.
I don't want to fly out on Sunday either. Leaving home on Sunday evening would be one thing, but I'd have to leave at the start of the afternoon. Not much of a weekend then.
My partner doesn't want to move and is alas not always sympathetic, i.e. it's my own fault for not getting a real job.....
If my Mrs ever kicked off about how long I work/travel etc I'd quit, get a job as tesco shelf stacker, easy life for me. Then we'd have to move to smaller house, she;d have to work more hours etc. Then it might kick in the realities of life....Rhyddid i lofnod psychocandy!!!!Comment
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My commute is 50 miles each way, most of it on the M6 between Preston and Warrington, and regardless of what time I set off (ranging from 6am to 9am) I still hit traffic at almost every junction around Haydock - meaning an average time commuting of 90 minutes each way.
I don't think I fully prepared myself for commuting, although distance-wise it's not too far, I detest being stuck on the motorway going nowhere. Last commute was around 30 miles and I could do that in 30 minutes - I guess M6 Southbound on a weekday is just not a nice place to be
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She doesn't complain about it, but she won't listen to my complaints either.Originally posted by psychocandy View Post
Thanks for listening....
BTW there isn't a whole hell of a lot of money left after the cost of travel and accommodation (which is out of my own pocket).Job motivation: how the powerful steal from the stupid.Comment
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I'm on train - then Tyne and Wear Metro to nearest station to clientco, then 15 min walk. This morning was murder - wet-through then fire alarm, everyone outside when it was raining even harder.Originally posted by psychocandy View Post
Indeed, on my walk in I cast a glance down noseward to spy a three inch dew-drop/snottie hanging out my left nostril. The perils of walking in a deluge with a cold coming on...Comment
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My first contract was 15 minutes walk from my house. I could see the top of the building from my bedroom window. Led to me going perm eventually though, which might not have been my best move.
Reading through this thread it seems that most people are not in London. Is that reflective of contractors in the whole or just on Contractor UK?Comment
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In my first contract at the moment. 60 mile drive each way and takes between 1.5 and 2 hours on a typical journey. After 2 weeks i gave up and got a room as a lodger. £65 a week which is less than the petrol money and i can work long days whilst away for an early finish on a Friday.
An hour drive or and hour and a half door to door using the train is my limit before looking for a week long rental.Comment
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