Hypothetically, would you travel 1hr 40 minutes to work (only for one year)...
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What is nearly 3 1/2 hours a day worth to you? For me £2k is cheap for an extra 15 hours a week to do what I want.
I currently commute 100 miles a day to work, when I go into the office which is about 3 days a week at present. This will increase to 5 days a week in the next month or so due to a promotion (fingers crossed).
The commute is M3 -> M25 -> A414 -> Hatfield and back each time. It can take as little as 55 minutes some days or, like tonight, 2 1/2 hours due to the traffic situation. Averaged out across any given month it works out at about 1:20 minutes each way.
I leave at 06:15 in the morning, and then leave the office as close to 4:30 as possible yet I still hit traffic some days.
Ultimatly I will find a role closer to home but at the moment this is my best chance to step up the management ladder if I stay where I am and once I have got 6 - 12 months experince I will then think about working closer to home.
At the moment my wife is working evenings and weekends to help cover the cost of travel, but it's the time I won't get back and when I get home some night after a fight with the motorway network, by kids are already in bed asleep.... and this makes the whole situation rubbish.
think long and hard about what you think you will get out of working that far away from home, you can't get the time back whatever the salary!!
The commute is M3 -> M25 -> A414 -> Hatfield and back each time. It can take as little as 55 minutes some days or, like tonight, 2 1/2 hours due to the traffic situation. Averaged out across any given month it works out at about 1:20 minutes each way.
I leave at 06:15 in the morning, and then leave the office as close to 4:30 as possible yet I still hit traffic some days.
Ultimatly I will find a role closer to home but at the moment this is my best chance to step up the management ladder if I stay where I am and once I have got 6 - 12 months experince I will then think about working closer to home.
At the moment my wife is working evenings and weekends to help cover the cost of travel, but it's the time I won't get back and when I get home some night after a fight with the motorway network, by kids are already in bed asleep.... and this makes the whole situation rubbish.
think long and hard about what you think you will get out of working that far away from home, you can't get the time back whatever the salary!!
Typically 260 working days in a year * 3:20 per day driving = 866hrs 40 minutes driving per year.
£2074 saved on accomodation / 866.666 hrs = £2.40 per hour
Don't know about you but I wouldn't take a driving job if it paid £2.40 per hour so no I don't think it's worth it.
£2074 saved on accomodation / 866.666 hrs = £2.40 per hour
Don't know about you but I wouldn't take a driving job if it paid £2.40 per hour so no I don't think it's worth it.
Just to save on living expenses...no.
Dream job...yes, but not sure how long it would remain the perfect job with the travelling.
Job that allowed me to claw back my time in years to come through very early retirement or a stepping stone to something really decent...yes.
Dream job...yes, but not sure how long it would remain the perfect job with the travelling.
Job that allowed me to claw back my time in years to come through very early retirement or a stepping stone to something really decent...yes.
I'd be prepared to travel an hour for any job, 2 hours for a dream job. (i.e. to west london, 1hr). If I could find something better that's closer, then I'd go for it. But for me a job's a job..... as long as its less than an hour away 
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Just to reiterate. THIS is purely hypothetical. I DO NOT have a job offer that is a 1hr 40min commute.
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Yes, living near your personal life is more important than living near your work life, even if this eats some of your free time on week-days.
I do so at the moment and have done for the last 8months, 1hr 45mins -2hours each way and 130 miles a day! It is not fun as it is mostly on the M8, leaving at 6am and not getting home till 6pm (without working any extra!)
It was much worse during the harsh winter we have just had, driving at 6 in the morning in the dark through a foot of snow on multiple occasions was not ideal. It took me 5- 6hours to get to work, and the same back home, (on different days though) a few days of the winter! In contrast, the last few weeks of lighter traffic and wearing sunglasses at 6am have felt like a breeze!
I'm not planning on doing it forever and I have my reasons for doing it this long, mainly the fact that although I would have more personal time if I moved closer that personal time would be on my own! Hopefully only another few months before I move out.
It was much worse during the harsh winter we have just had, driving at 6 in the morning in the dark through a foot of snow on multiple occasions was not ideal. It took me 5- 6hours to get to work, and the same back home, (on different days though) a few days of the winter! In contrast, the last few weeks of lighter traffic and wearing sunglasses at 6am have felt like a breeze!
I'm not planning on doing it forever and I have my reasons for doing it this long, mainly the fact that although I would have more personal time if I moved closer that personal time would be on my own! Hopefully only another few months before I move out.
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Seriously, what?
Why would you suddenly decide to post a completely made up situation about a totally pretend commute of exactly 1 hour 40 minutes? It makes no sense at all.
What a now utterly pointless thread
Of all the things to do on a Friday night posting abut a hypothetical commute seems a bit weird.
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[TW]Fox;16424961 said:Seriously, what?
Why would you suddenly decide to post a completely made up situation about a totally pretend commute of exactly 1 hour 40 minutes? It makes no sense at all.
What a now utterly pointless thread
You knew it was purely hypothetical. It's in the title. If you thought it was an utterly pointless thread you should not have commented.
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It was in the afternoon when I first created the thread. And not to much suprise, no body commented prior to your over reaction (as per usual) on the "oddness" (if you will) of the thread. It's only you who has raised how odd this is, on a Friday night might I add.
So whats the point of the thread? Also did you just pull all these figures out of the air?
Plus a 1 bed flat is going to cost more than £500 per month, unless your willing to houseshare, plus you didn't factor in all the related bills.
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Not really an over-reaction, just think the fact its all totally made up is a bit of a waste of our time. I didnt notice the 'Hypothetically' bit in the title when I replied, so replied thinking it was a serious thread and you or someone you know was considering doing it.
It never even crossed my mind you'd be so bored you'd decide to make a thread about a pretend commuting possibility
It never even crossed my mind you'd be so bored you'd decide to make a thread about a pretend commuting possibility
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[TW]Fox;16425038 said:It never even crossed my mind you'd be so bored you'd decide to make a thread about a pretend commuting possibility
If an explaination must be given...
...most decent engineering based industrial placements which I'm after (hence the "only for one year" in the brackets, in the title) seem to be based outside of London, all (believe it or not) around 1hr 45 mins drive away from where I live (at different locations from each other, off course!).
I took the £500 rent per month as the going rate for a 1 bed at one of these locations, picked at random.
So yeh. Purely hypothetical, should an oppertunity arise.
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