12 minutes in the car (15 if the traffic's bad) or 30 mins cycle through the woods.
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Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View PostWhere in the country are you living if you only have 15 min commutes?
Could probably earn more elsewhere but I hate commuting and hate hotels even more.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Up at 6am, work for a couple of hours, perform ablutions, get to client site for 9, home by 6pm. So 12 hours.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Two hours each way on the train (Southampton to Canary Wharf), then 9 hours or so at work. You have to develop a strategy or else you'll cream-cracker yourself....my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Between 1:45 and 2:30 each way dependent on traffic
I stay over 1 night a week and WFH on Friday'sComment
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Originally posted by jamesbrown View PostTwo minute walk from bedComment
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Commute varies but normally 90mins each way with a 10 hour work day.
But that is the norm for permie in construction.Growing old is mandatory
Growing up is optionalComment
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Originally posted by Halo Jones View PostCommute varies but normally 90mins each way with a 10 hour work day.
But that is the norm for permie in construction.
I don't think you've got this construction lark quite right if you ask me....Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostWhen I've had builders round doing extensions, they arrive just before 10am, have two hour lunch breaks in the pub/betting shop, 4 x 15 min tea and fag breaks, and start packing up at 3.30pm
I don't think you've got this construction lark quite right if you ask me....
That’s the difference between residential & commercial construction and management & operative .Growing old is mandatory
Growing up is optionalComment
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