Reply to: Narked off a bit -

[TheFaQQer]

Mind you, I must concede that commuting is a bit of a waste of one's life.

I was looking at this book on Amazon this weekend - the guy wrote it to win an argument. His argument was that people sleeping on the train were wasting their time, and to prove it, he wrote a book just during his daily commute.

The general advice seemed to be that he would have been better off sleeping instead. I didn't waste my 77p to buy it to find out, though.

[Doggy Styles]

Fooking 'ell.

qh

Exactly what I thought.

He was interviewed on the radio. I think he said it was about 4 hours each way. He got home, had half an hour to have some dinner, then went to bed for the next day's early start.

[quackhandle]

Mind you, I must concede that commuting is a bit of a waste of one's life.

+1.

I remember a chap in the news a few years ago who commuted by car every day from Pontefract to Reading.

Fooking 'ell.

qh

[Sysman]

I did a 4 hour daily commute for 6 years.


Deal with it.

I did 3 to 4 hours commute for a permie job and thought it was a waste of my time.

I jumped to one of their customers and got a 90% pay rise in a better part of the world.

[Doggy Styles]

Not you, the OP

Ah, sorry.

Mind you, I must concede that commuting is a bit of a waste of one's life.

I remember a chap in the news a few years ago who commuted by car every day from Pontefract to Reading. And he sounded cheerful on the radio.

[norrahe]

Deal with what? I'm doing about the same but I'm not complaining.

Not you, the OP

[Doggy Styles]

I did a 4 hour daily commute for 6 years.

Deal with it.

Deal with what? I'm doing about the same but I'm not complaining.

[norrahe]

Such is contracting. About the same as me, but half of mine is train.

I did a 4 hour daily commute for 6 years.


Deal with it.

[Doggy Styles]

I love this contract - and the people that I work with are great, but the commute has turned out to be a 1.5/2 hour journey every morning. Sometimes it feels like groundhog day.

I'll cheer up tomorrow hopefully.

Such is contracting. About the same as me, but half of mine is train.

[MarillionFan]

1.5 one way hour max for me is the rule, and that has to be rush hour, so I'd expect it to be quicker in a quiet road. More than that I'd stay up a few nights.

[IR35FanClub]

I find the train helps a lot, despite taking a bit longer and costing a bit more than the fuel, I get to sleep an extra hour in the mornings, and on the way home use me ipad to get through my mails and finances, all without having to deal with idiots who dont know how to drive. I havent commuted by car for 4 years and its part of the consideration when looking for new work.

Ok theres still nobs on the train, but nothing a pair of decent sennheisers cant mask out. The women are paricularly bad, as they dont seem able to sit and not talk if they are travelling with someone they know. Im not so bothered on the way home but at 7:15am is it really important to tell your collegaue about the friend of a friend who did this and that. Who gives a flying fish.! I got meself some sealed back in ear phones and i cant hear them and they cant hear me (unlike people with apple ear buds which should be banned!!!)

In fact i had the idea of a plan B company to carry 10 pairs of senheiser in me bag and flog them on the train to people with white earbuds. Then everyone can get some sleep.

[cojak]

Stay over mid week just to recharge your batteries etc etc...

That's what I do, it's not the early mornings, it's getting in at 8pm I have problems with...

[suityou01]

I love this contract - and the people that I work with are great, but the commute has turned out to be a 1.5/2 hour journey every morning. Sometimes it feels like groundhog day.

I'll cheer up tomorrow hopefully.

My commute last gig was anywhere between 1.25 hours and 3 hrs. Such was the commute into central Cambridge from Luton.

Count yourself lucky. On many levels.

[northernladuk]

Negotiate flexible hours so you can miss the rush hour. If you can't shift your day and hour at both ends try for 3 shorter ones where you come in late and go home a little earlier and then do 2 long days to make the time up..

Stay over mid week just to recharge your batteries etc etc...

[Paddy]

No contact is perfect. About the same commute as my current contact, via train so I work while travelling; time passes quicker.