Job - Should I or Shouldn't I?

I get annoyed when someone complains about jobs and they can't drive. The ability to drive opens up jobs ANYWHERE. You should also be prepared to move house for a good job.

Polish people nick your jobs because they are flexible!
 
vonhelmet said:
£200 for 3 months of 90 minute bus journeys is a bargain considering the hilariously high cost of single - or even day return - bus tickets. £200 would barely see you a month in singles.
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Really? your only looking at about £1.50 for a full days use in my home town.
 
Learn to drive, or find another job.

Either way, I certainly wouldn't commute the best part for 40 miles for < £7/hr
 
tom_e said:
Really? your only looking at about £1.50 for a full days use in my home town.
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That's fairly cheap compared to most areas - actually, I don't think I've seen an all-day pass so cheap, even in a small radius. Regardless, there's also the distance involved - The bus journey itself is about 50mins, which would take you across the boundary of almost any bus zone. There's a cheaper, local option available, which would get me maybe 1/3rd of the way there before I had to pay for the rest of my journey, or there's a pass that covers the whole of the South East region - much, much farther than I really need to go. There's no middle option, but the price difference doesn't reflect the difference in the area covered.

The return journey from my place to Canterbury, where I work, costs £5. At 13 weeks travel that I get on my pass, assuming 5 days a week, that'd run to £325 to cover the same travel over the same period - and that's leaving me with a 20min walk from the bus station to the hospital and the same back again, because it obviously wouldn't cover the minibus service. Because I work irregular days it's rare that I make 5 full return trips in a week, but I use the bus for all my other travel as well so the cost works out okay. Cheaper than a car by a country mile, but I'd rather drive if I could.
 
Like others have said, bus sounds like your best option. I think you would be mad to do 36 miles a day on a £20 bike as someone suggested.

I cycle 13 ish miles each way every day and at the moment if I get up early enough to beat London fail traffic I am doing it in about 50 minutes each way.

Just bought clip ins and cycle shoes and hoping to get down to 40 minutes each way (or in english, averaging 18 MPH over the full distance.I'm confident its achievable, and the beauty is you get fit at the same time and don't pay 2 grand a year for an unreliable packed train service.

Without doubt though, you need to be showering once your done as you'll be sweaty if you go down the cycle route... do you have this as an option?
 
tom_e said:
Really? your only looking at about £1.50 for a full days use in my home town.
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Blimey, where do you live? Round here I think a day ticket is the thick end of a fiver, and you'd struggle to manage a 90 minute journey unless you were changing multiple times or the bus broke down.
 
how old are you? your at college so a job on £7 per hour sounds very good to me.
Have you thought about the train?
 
vonhelmet said:
Blimey, where do you live? Round here I think a day ticket is the thick end of a fiver, and you'd struggle to manage a 90 minute journey unless you were changing multiple times or the bus broke down.
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In a horrible little town stuck for the most part in medievil times :o
 
PardonTheWait said:
It's an hour's ride at 18mph, I wouldn't want to ride for an hour at that long and then sit down and work without having a shower. If it was uphill it'd take me all day to get to work!
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Oh didums,
My average on hefty old full suspension Mountain bike with knobbly tires is 15mph.
I do it on a Saturday and I don't get the luxury of sitting down when I get there either as my job requires grafting.

Take some deodorant and flannel yourself down in the bogs then.
Either you want the job or you don't, if you do then you'd find a way
 
If you can't work out how to use a bus, then why are these people going to give you a job?

By all means go for it, but why worry about how you're going to get there before you've even got the job? As others have mentioned some people interview for hundreds of jobs before they get one.
 
OP: personally, I wouldn't take such a job; I'd look closer to home if I could.

Obviously if you are desperate for a job etc. then you have to do what you have to do. I'd keep applying.

When I was unemployed I did a lot of searching for jobs, some local and some not so local, that suited what I wanted to do (more or less, I was flexible). I then applied, applied and applied.

This gave me options if, say, I had several offers of interviews etc.
 
HAz said:
how old are you? your at college so a job on £7 per hour sounds very good to me.
Have you thought about the train?
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I'm 17, It's easier to get there on a bus

Josh107 said:
If you can't work out how to use a bus, then why are these people going to give you a job?

By all means go for it, but why worry about how you're going to get there before you've even got the job? As others have mentioned some people interview for hundreds of jobs before they get one.
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I know how to use the bus's just didn't know which one to get there, but I've looked today and know which one I need to catch.

Just didn't want to have an interview and have a chance of getting the job and then panicking about transport

This Side Up said:
OP: personally, I wouldn't take such a job; I'd look closer to home if I could.

Obviously if you are desperate for a job etc. then you have to do what you have to do. I'd keep applying.

When I was unemployed I did a lot of searching for jobs, some local and some not so local, that suited what I wanted to do (more or less, I was flexible). I then applied, applied and applied.

This gave me options if, say, I had several offers of interviews etc.
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I have to wait until monday to try and ring the lady I need to but I'm still going to try and get an interview as £7/hr is good for my age (If I got paid that)
 
Weigh in the cost of transport to and from work, also weigh in how long (time-wise) it takes. I've heard some awful situations where people have had to spend a lot of time on public transport (not I, the only bus I have ever been on was the old Route Masters in London... when I was 9) to get to work, meaning they had to leave home real early and would get back home real late.

That may, or may not, be an issue for you. All good points for consideration.
 
Moped sorts your travel problems. Can be good fun in the dry too, though I vowed never two wheels again when I got my first car

Don't get too excited about the pay, you may find they want to pay you less (minimum wage, whatever that is for a young buck these days). Seems like so long ago that I quantified my pay per hour :eek:
 
d_brennen said:
Moped sorts your travel problems. Can be good fun in the dry too, though I vowed never two wheels again when I got my first car

Don't get too excited about the pay, you may find they want to pay you less (minimum wage, whatever that is for a young buck these days). Seems like so long ago that I quantified my pay per hour :eek:
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Dislike Mopeds lol dangerous things

Yeah :( If I got the job it would be something stupid like £3/hr or what ever people under the age of 18 get paid
 
When are you 18? I'd question if it would be economical to get a job if that's the kind of money you'd be on. Remember it will take time away from your studies. Are there no table waiting jobs and the like nearer to home? That's what I did from 16-18. Pay is also a bit crap unless you fall in with the right crowed but traveling a round trip of ~36 miles may be more than it's worth financially
 
Have a proper look into the bus routes around the times you would need to travel, it can be a bit of a nightmare. I was once looking at a job that was only around 5 miles away but it meant catching two buses and would have been over an hour each way - probably just as quick to walk although I wasn't sure how feasible that was. You can get stumped by something as simple as the timings, 18 miles could easily mean having to change bus and you could be sat around in the freezing cold at 07:30 in the the morning waiting for you next bus.

When looking at the hourly rate you may want to factor in your travel time. Simplified example:
£5/hr working a 7hr day with 3hrs travel time is an effective rate of £3.50/hr

No harm in applying for the job of course (interview experience could prove useful) but for a first(?) job I would definitely be looking for something closer to home.
 
d_brennen said:
When are you 18? I'd question if it would be economical to get a job if that's the kind of money you'd be on. Remember it will take time away from your studies. Are there no table waiting jobs and the like nearer to home? That's what I did from 16-18. Pay is also a bit crap unless you fall in with the right crowed but traveling a round trip of ~36 miles may be more than it's worth financially
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My Dad showed me where it was and I think it's closer than I thought, I think I was looking at the wrong area :/ So it's less than 18 miles.

Also the Bus that I would need to catch takes me from town (city centre) to almost outside where I need to go, and there are 4 buses that do that route, just would need to look at the times.

HangTime said:
Have a proper look into the bus routes around the times you would need to travel, it can be a bit of a nightmare. I was once looking at a job that was only around 5 miles away but it meant catching two buses and would have been over an hour each way - probably just as quick to walk although I wasn't sure how feasible that was. You can get stumped by something as simple as the timings, 18 miles could easily mean having to change bus and you could be sat around in the freezing cold at 07:30 in the the morning waiting for you next bus.

When looking at the hourly rate you may want to factor in your travel time. Simplified example:
£5/hr working a 7hr day with 3hrs travel time is an effective rate of £3.50/hr

No harm in applying for the job of course (interview experience could prove useful) but for a first(?) job I would definitely be looking for something closer to home.
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It's 5.15pm to 8pm :p I'm going to be looking at the bus times shortly as I need to go out now but I think the buses run every 30 mins or so to go that way, It could be annoying to start off with as I can't drive but if I got the job I would start learning asap and then hopefully pass pretty quick
 
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