It takes me an hour to get to work and about 45 minutes to get home. I sure as hell wouldn't be doing that for $8 an hour.
My drive is 35 minutes without traffic (ie: when schools are closed and there's a holiday), or 50-60 minutes when there's some **** that rear-ended someone else, or set their car on fire, or flipped their vehicle, or jackknifed their truck, or blew their poor beemers tire. 90 minutes is the longest, and that was with 11 miles of backed up traffic. With the job I got back in December of 09, the pay increase was worth the drive, so I put up with it, and have for the last year. I live in Raleigh, NC. I know it's nowhere near as bad as Atlanta, Chicago, NY, or Miami, but seriously, people in my area lose all sense of how to drive properly when they move here. It's like they come and say 'hey, thats where that Naskar comes frum. I think I'll drive like I make all left turns.' See, now you got me started. Jersey merges (cutting across 4 lanes with no signal)? Check. Slowing down to a complete and total stop before making a turn with no signal? Check. Braking for no apparent reason in 65 mph traffic? Check. Weaving between two cars to get two lengths ahead? Check. Not knowing how to spell MERGE? Check. Or better, trying to merge at the last moment, with no signal? Check. Going as fast as possible during the red light immediately after it's turned red? Check. Pulling out in front of oncoming traffic so you can go as slow as possible? Check. Speeding through speed bumps? Check. We've got it all. And the DOT is useless. It was almost better when we used prison labor to fix the roads. Now the state flag should have an orange cone on it. The worst part? The fact that the state police are fighting a corruption scandal while trying to implement a "No Need To Speed" campaign. I believe in the police, I really do, but when they're just meter maids to collect funds for the state by taking in every driver they can, it's not helpful. /crazy rant
I am fortunate in that I live about 6mi from work. My commute is 10-15 min. depending on traffic. I buy gas every two weeks.
I live on base housing, so it's about a 10 minute drive, with the security checkpoint and traffic in the morning. Reservist Weekends are about a 15 minute drive due to lack of parking.
25mins one way on a good day...took me an hour and half today due to a snow storm and people not being able to drive in it. Also, I'm stuck at work tonight since our roads are now closed to my house. Darn good thing I work at a hotel!
9miles (6kms) to work and I use round about 10minutes to get there, but that's because I tend to start work early, between 6 and 7am, and there's little traffic at that time.
Dang. Yeah, those are all the things that make me wish I had Magneto powers. There would be sooooo many vehicles chucked out into fields, ditches, and rivers..... It takse me 5 minutes to take my wife to work, then 5 minutes from her work to get to mine. I'm glad we moved closer to the middle of the city. $8.00 an hour, even for a permanent full time position is not worth a 90 minute drive at all. I don't even think great benefits, if there are any, would really help. Keep looking.
I don't work- unless you count college as a job. i don't drive, although i still have a car and a CDL with HazMat, Tanker, Passenger (bus) and EVOC certification. (trust me, you wouldn't want me to drive right now, LOL. at the moment, i have a neighbor drive me where i need to go, never more than 30 min. in any direction. i really wish i could drive again and soon, even to a job 90 min. away. i miss it.
i walk about 3-5 minutes to work, it is right down the street haha it took me a whole 7 minutes to get to work the other day because those icy sidewalks were treacherous
9 miles (ish) to work each way, which can be done in either 15 minutes early morning, or 1 and a half hours depending on traffic. The worst was over 2 hours. I believe I was spitting blood, and pretty much saying, truthfully, that the accident that caused all this had better have been a spectacular one, and that someone had better have died. Which really? Is an incredibly dick thing to think, let alone say. Road rage, ain't it grand? But I do a lot of driving to get to other places work related.
I never really noticed the price of gas being an issue until I got to work at a new location. Instead of taking 5 minutes to drive to work, now it is 45 minutes. It may actually be more like 30 minutes but we have had constant snow for so long I have no idea.
