How long is your day including commute?

[psychocandy]

OK Time to wave your willy (or whatever).

11.5 hours daily (8 hours plus 1.5ish each way commute) is my current. I'm thinking is probably above average but not excessive compared to some.

Problems I've found with this are:-
1) Extra hours due to workload/emergency don't really work for an already long day.
2) By Friday Im knackered.
3) During the week I have zero time to myself by the time I get home. Not helped with having young kids.

Can't moan though - decent contract. Been here 8 months now - and looking at more. Would have parted ways by now otherwise I think.

[DimPrawn]

15 minutes commute, 7 hour day. Plenty enough.

I don't get this long commute, long day tulip?

Do you want to waste your life in some dull as **** office full of other equally irksome retards, then spend what should be YOUR free time in yet another tailback, with drivers weaving in an out of every lane, just so you can collapse in an armchair at 9pm every evening, and do it all again, day in day out, year after year?

[Avalonia]

1 hour each way + 7.5 hours 'work'

[PurpleGorilla]

15 minutes commute, 7 hour day. Plenty enough.


Do you want to waste your life in some dull as **** office full of other equally irksome retards, then spend what should be YOUR free time in yet another tailback, with drivers weaving in an out of every lane, just so you can collapse in an armchair at 9pm every evening, and do it all again, day in day out, year after year?

I'm on similar terms to PC; 3 or more hours commuting and a 7-8 hour day.

My expertise is quite niche, and not many contracts for me out there.

My advice get an automatic and listen to classic fm!

[VectraMan]

40 mins each way + 7.5 hours in theory.

But I am a permie. I did 2 hours each way + 8 hour day for a while as a contractor. Crap for all the reasons PC said.

[unixman]

Same as OP from my own house, but from local digs: 15 min each way + 8 hours on site.

Eventually it becomes an oppressive hamster wheel, even with local mon-fri digs. But being a contractor, you can hopefully just finish and take a few months off.

[Avalonia]

I would never drive anything but auto now. The fantasy of snicking through the gears on deserted roads

[rl4engc]

45 minute drive each way and 8 hours total work.

..which is why I love working from home. The 10 second commute, and 1.5 extra hours a day for yourself/house/family.

[Dallas]

Average day:

gym
10 min walk in
2 hours doing genuine work
~1 hour faffing and eating (throughout the day)
1 hour planning/diary stuff/aligning people
4 hours on rubbish calls with headless chickens
10 min walk to gym
Vino and return to sanity

[psychocandy]

15 minutes commute, 7 hour day. Plenty enough.

I don't get this long commute, long day tulip?

Do you want to waste your life in some dull as **** office full of other equally irksome retards, then spend what should be YOUR free time in yet another tailback, with drivers weaving in an out of every lane, just so you can collapse in an armchair at 9pm every evening, and do it all again, day in day out, year after year?

No I dont. I'd much rather spend the morning at home watching Jeremy Kyle, crack one out watching Loose Women, then having a few hours kip in the afternoon.

But no-one will pay me shedloads of money for doing that !