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JM build | Pedalboard plans
Commuting gets so boring, same route, same people same problems .. If I leave the next job it'll be to work from home.
Train commuting can become harder than expected if the line becomes unreliable - I'd regularly lose extra hours per day.
When I car commuted125 miles (total) a day it was my physical health that suffered - endless back trouble.
I wouldn't do either again
In some ways they're my favourite parts of the day, I can sit and read a book with no-one emailing or phoning or expecting me to be doing two or three other things at once.
They're pretty flexible here though, so if I don't need to be in the office I can always work from home with enough notice. I work from home most Fridays to avoid the traffic.
Now live in the same town as I work and it takes me 5mins. Best decision I’ve made in that regard.
I usually work at home one day per week. I also do a lot of visits sometimes a fair old distance but I guess that adds a bit of variety.
My commute into Birmingham city centre for a year or so by bus was the worst. I hated that journey. Tedious, slow, unreliable, lot of trouble. Someone was followed off the bus route I took and stabbed to death. Not the bus I was on but the same route 20 minutes earlier.
To the office is 30 - 35 min drive each way, visit to customer or one of our plants could be between 2 and 4 hours drive each way in uk or a couple of hours flight + 1 or 2 hours drive in Europe (once or twice per month). I haven't done long haul for a few years now.
A few years ago I was managing a team who were spread across Europe (I was the only one in the uk) and all of my customers were based in continental Europe. I gave up my uk office and worked from home. With the uk being an hour behind everybody else I could still work their hours without getting up earlier. I also found that I was spreading my working day over a longer period but taking bigger breaks (I could go out to the gym or the super market during the day but then work into the evening) . My laptop was on and connected to email 24/7. Not for everyone but it suited me.
With fuel and buying lunch I think that going into the office costs me £4 to £5 per day.
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Spotify, Apple et al
Each trip takes 30-45 mind depending on the headwinds.
My PB is 23mins.
The commute is the best part of my day! I enjoy the ride- it's all on cycle lanes & canal tow paths.
I'm about to switch to a new job- 5miles but through the city so not as nice a cycle.
The train is the worst, it is delayed by 15 minutes at least 4 times a week, and by 30 minutes at least once a week. On special occasions they just cancel all of the trains because of some signalling fault and I have to drive or take a couple of busses for 30 minutes to the nearest tube station and take that train.
And starting from today there is 5 days of industrial action.