How far would you travel for right role
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An hour of driving each way takes it out of you. I used to do 55 miles door to door and I needed to be able to hit 85'ish on the A1 for about 20 minutes straight to be able to keep it to just over the hour mark, to make up for being stuck at 40 in a 60 for 10 miles on the A57.
By the time you get to work it feels like you've already done half a day, and usually your chair's spinning as soon as it's 5,30 because you want to get as much of a leap as possible on everyone else coming out of car parks and getting to the motorway. There's little point delaying your departure, because there's more chance you'll catch the end of the queue quicker, assuming they havent been playing bumper cars.
It's only worth it if you dont plan much in the evenings and have an understanding O/H, or no O/H and you just do your thing, but it can make you anti social because you're knackered when you get in, and you've got an early start the next morning so you end up putting off things until weekends, which are short enough already
By the time you get to work it feels like you've already done half a day, and usually your chair's spinning as soon as it's 5,30 because you want to get as much of a leap as possible on everyone else coming out of car parks and getting to the motorway. There's little point delaying your departure, because there's more chance you'll catch the end of the queue quicker, assuming they havent been playing bumper cars.
It's only worth it if you dont plan much in the evenings and have an understanding O/H, or no O/H and you just do your thing, but it can make you anti social because you're knackered when you get in, and you've got an early start the next morning so you end up putting off things until weekends, which are short enough already
I spent 9 months of last year doing 81 miles each way from Kent to Newbury, so M25 and M4, not the nicest of morning commutes.
Full time to start then 1-2 days per week from home towards the end of my contract.
Record for longest journey was 6.5 hours, but it was to get me into something I hadn't done before and walked into a new role in 1 week back in London, so was 100% worth it.
Oh and all done in an ageing Alfa as well so double jeopardy!!!
Full time to start then 1-2 days per week from home towards the end of my contract.
Record for longest journey was 6.5 hours, but it was to get me into something I hadn't done before and walked into a new role in 1 week back in London, so was 100% worth it.
Oh and all done in an ageing Alfa as well so double jeopardy!!!
TIGA84 said:
I spent 9 months of last year doing 81 miles each way from Kent to Newbury, so M25 and M4, not the nicest of morning commutes.
Full time to start then 1-2 days per week from home towards the end of my contract.
Record for longest journey was 6.5 hours, but it was to get me into something I hadn't done before and walked into a new role in 1 week back in London, so was 100% worth it.
Oh and all done in an ageing Alfa as well so double jeopardy!!!
Top work and a great end result, thats what its all about Full time to start then 1-2 days per week from home towards the end of my contract.
Record for longest journey was 6.5 hours, but it was to get me into something I hadn't done before and walked into a new role in 1 week back in London, so was 100% worth it.
Oh and all done in an ageing Alfa as well so double jeopardy!!!
Will there be any flexibility in your hours to beat the traffic - ie, start slightly early and finish early, or even start slightly later after rush hour? Depending on the business, this might suit them as gives them some cover in the office outwith normal office hours.
I travel 40 each way and am fortunate that I can leave the house early enough to beat the bulk of the traffic. I get to the office at 7ish and as I have keys can let myself in etc. Try and leave anytime after 4 but sometimes as late as 6.
Don't think that I would like to be forced into a 8 or 8:30 am start and be sitting in more traffic as it would be about 90 mins instead of the 50 to 70 mins it is now (generally 50- 55 there and 60 - 70 on way home) - so the flexible start helps.
Also, having previously worked in the same industry and been out on site, covering the whole of the UK, an hours commute now is nothing compared to the usual 3-600 miles journey south on a Sunday and then back home again on Friday evening.
Many years ago used to work 8 miles from home but started at 8am - had to leave the house at 7am to stand a chance of getting there on time - and that was just Stoke on Trent traffic!!! That, I would not do again - prefer to travel 40 mile in moving traffic than 8 miles in nose to tail traffic!!
I travel 40 each way and am fortunate that I can leave the house early enough to beat the bulk of the traffic. I get to the office at 7ish and as I have keys can let myself in etc. Try and leave anytime after 4 but sometimes as late as 6.
Don't think that I would like to be forced into a 8 or 8:30 am start and be sitting in more traffic as it would be about 90 mins instead of the 50 to 70 mins it is now (generally 50- 55 there and 60 - 70 on way home) - so the flexible start helps.
Also, having previously worked in the same industry and been out on site, covering the whole of the UK, an hours commute now is nothing compared to the usual 3-600 miles journey south on a Sunday and then back home again on Friday evening.
Many years ago used to work 8 miles from home but started at 8am - had to leave the house at 7am to stand a chance of getting there on time - and that was just Stoke on Trent traffic!!! That, I would not do again - prefer to travel 40 mile in moving traffic than 8 miles in nose to tail traffic!!
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