How long is your commute to work?

[Surf's Up]

2 minutes on my X-Max!

 

[8ace]

At Angmering one time I had to get off the train I was that desperate.

Stations along the route don't seem to charge (Angmering, Shoreham, Havant, Cosham, Worthing and Barnham for sure) while Brighton and Portsmouth and Southsea do. Even more confusingly although Southsea charges, Harbour doesn't.

But yes. f***ing sucks. No tables for my laptop and those 4 pod seats all the way so no 2 seat airline style.

The toliet at Harbour is shut now.
Those 4 pods seats are not the most comfortable either.

 

[Return of the Rev]

I wake up and I'm at "work"

this

 

[Tricky Dicky]

How can anyone put up with 2 hours+ travelling to and from work every day?

It's like adding about 25% to your working day (and not getting paid for it)!

I wouldn't work anywhere which involved travelling more than 10 minutes to get there.

If I was offered an unbelieveable job a long way away, I'd move.

Mine is about 1 hour 40 mins, Shoreham to Londinium. I would argue that I do get paid for it by being paid approx 3 times what I would earn in Sussex, even if there were any jons for me down here. I would not want to live in London, and most people who do, also take at least an hour to get to work anyway. Don't mind the travelling - provided the trains are working, I've done it for 23 years (in miles that's about once round the world for every year commuted)

 

[Randsta]

About 50mins each way

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

35 miles : 90 minute drive

First 30 miles : 45 minures
Last 5 miles : 45 minutes

School holidays : 60 minutes

 

[wardy wonder land]

77 miles
4 counties sussex, slurry, kent Essex

Brighton - Basildon

AM - ave 1hr 15mins PM - ave 1hr 35min - every now & then a magic 2.3 - 3 hour special

occastyionally i work in Southampton - but then i book the hours from departing home to returning home (bonus 3 hours ;-0 )

 

[Badger]

3 minutes 24 seconds door to desk. Not that I've timed it.....

 

[Bozza]

Generally a 20-25 minute drive through the lovely Somerset countryside. It varies by very little - I couldn't remember the last time there was traffic of any note.

If I don't have the car it's about 50 minutes - 5 minute walk, 15 minute train journey and a 30 minute walk.

I did the commute from the Sussex coast to London for a couple of years and absolutely hated it. I'm not a routine person and London commuting seems to drive you into a monotonous routine due to the long travelling time...

- Alarm set for the same time every day
- Same morning routine
- Leave house at the same time
- Stand on the same part of the platform
- Get on the same train door
- Sit in the same seat
- See the same people

...and then, at the end of the day, knowing you'll have to dash to get your train of choice and keeping your fingers crossed that everything runs smoothly so you have some sort of evening when you get home before you have to go to bed and do the whole lot again.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

- Alarm set for the same time every day
- Same morning routine
- Leave house at the same time
- Stand on the same part of the platform
- Get on the same train door
- Sit in the same seat
- See the same people

...and then, at the end of the day, knowing you'll have to dash to get your train of choice and keeping your fingers crossed that everything runs smoothly so you have some sort of evening when you get home before you have to go to bed and do the whole lot again.

You're not Reggie Perrin are you?

 

[The Large One]

An extra 25 minutes today thanks to a broken down train.

Gonna be carnage if that happens again tomorrow or Sunday.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Two flights of stairs to my home office. We have had this thread before, but for the record I used to commute and got totally fed up with it. It is such a waste of time, a total waste of time. I'd been in the process of setting up a home office and spoke to my boss of the time about working from home. He did not entertain the idea so I took the gamble and quit with the idea of developing the working-from-home side of things and look for contracts and clients, and the type of work, which would allow me to do this. A few years later and I work all the time from home and venture up to the client's office in London around once a month. Quitting your job with nothing to go to is quite scary but I am really glad I took the punt and I have never been so happy in my work and I seem to have so much time on my hands these days.

I tend to think there is always a better way of doing things (there generally is), and I'm sure a lot more people could do what I have done if they put their mind to it. Or maybe people enjoy a commute?

 

[The Large One]

I tend to think there is always a better way of doing things (there generally is), and I'm sure a lot more people could do what I have done if they put their mind to it. Or maybe people enjoy a commute?

Sounds like you've done the right thing to improve your quality of life and improve your work/home balance.

The downside to what you do - and it is down to the individual of course - is the whole concept of looking at the same four walls. I don't mind my short 'commute' (Brighton to Lewes) as it's a moment to gear up for work, and to clear down my mind going home, and you do get to see some moving wallpaper.

Couldn't do the London thing any more, mind.

 

[Bozza]

Two flights of stairs to my home office. We have had this thread before, but for the record I used to commute and got totally fed up with it. It is such a waste of time, a total waste of time. I'd been in the process of setting up a home office and spoke to my boss of the time about working from home. He did not entertain the idea so I took the gamble and quit with the idea of developing the working-from-home side of things and look for contracts and clients, and the type of work, which would allow me to do this. A few years later and I work all the time from home and venture up to the client's office in London around once a month. Quitting your job with nothing to go to is quite scary but I am really glad I took the punt and I have never been so happy in my work and I seem to have so much time on my hands these days.

I tend to think there is always a better way of doing things (there generally is), and I'm sure a lot more people could do what I have done if they put their mind to it. Or maybe people enjoy a commute?

What work do you do? I should know but I simply have no idea.

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

On the days everything works, 2hrs 40 mins. Worst ever, 4 and a half hours.

I think we have a (sort of) winner. And I thought my 1hr 45min each way was bad....

 

[Beach Hut]

We have had home workers before who have got so bored of no human contact they pleaded to work in an office again.

I tend to now WFH around one day a week as I find as age creeps up so does tiredness

 

[Rookie]

Used to be about 1.45 - 2 hours door to door each way but about 20 of that would be due to First Capital Connect and their crap service to City. Now work from home but looking to go back to London because I hate working from home!

 

[Trufflehound]

Depends whether I'm starting from the bedroom (5 seconds), or after breakfast from the kitchen (10 seconds).

 

[Tricky Dicky]

We have had home workers before who have got so bored of no human contact they pleaded to work in an office again.

I tend to now WFH around one day a week as I find as age creeps up so does tiredness

Have to agree. When I was made redundant 3 years ago, the thing I missed most was talking to people - something Tedebear had told me before, but I didn't appreciate at the time. I like working at home (I am at this minute), but would not want to do it all the time. The age thing is true, as well as my medical problems, I find if I can w@h at least once a week, particularly towards the end of the week, that little bit of extra sleep helps hugely - a normal day is getting up at 4:50 and getting home around 19:45.

 

[Lush]

Freelance so sometimes working from home, sometimes a 1.5 - 2.5 hour commute into whatever bit of London wants me. I have however perfected the art of sleeping on the train in the morning, so it's more like an extended lie-in. Coming home - if someone said "I want you to spend an hour and a half doing nothing but reading or listening to music", you'd be quite pleased, wouldn't you? Commuting is all about attitude, assuming of course you can get a seat.