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That averages 50 kmh - I'd expect to cover 100km in about an hour in good traffic and an hour and a half in bad.
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Well I spent an hour and fifteen minuts driving less than 10km this morning, if you can do a 100km commute in hour. I would say go for it, next time I see the traffic backed up like this I am taking the bus. Dublin city council's traffic camera service Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch -- modified at 4:18 Thursday 18th May, 2006
Ray Kinsella wrote:
Well I spent an hour and fifteen minuts driving less than 10km this morning
:wtf: This is insane, I would not have such patience. Nothing against driving far, but waiting in the car... Why don't you ride your bicycle ? 10 km is not that much, could be achieved in less than an hour. ~RaGE();
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Paul Watson wrote:
Do you have a wife and kids?
I'll have a wife in two months, still my girlfriend up to then. Kids will be coming soon as well (if everything goes well). To anticipate your probable next question, she is not full of joy with it, but she does not disagree, she says I'll be driving, and I have to see if I can make it. ~RaGE();
I'd say that would be tough on a new marriage, leaving early in the morning and arriving home late at night. Then again if the job is one that will make you happy then there is that positive to the relationship to consider. Why isn't moving closer an option? Would it move your fiance away from her job so making her commute longer? And congratulations on the pending wedding :) regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
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2 Hours??? Each way??? So, let's say you start work at 0900. You need to leave home by 0700 which means, to have time for a shower and a coffee, you need to be up by 0630. You have an 8 hour day plus an hour for lunch so you leave work at 1800. You don't get home until 2000 (on a good day). By the time you come in and open & deal with the post, your family, the dog and sort out the daily bits that need to be sorted out it's around 2045. Now you need to eat. You're done and washed up by 2130 even if you have someone to make it for you. You sit down and spend some more time with your family hoping that they remember who you are and noting that you only see your (young) children at the weekend: bit like being a part-time or absent parent. 2230: knackered so a final check of the email, kiss your loved ones goodnight and off to bed. Welcome to your world - the job takes around 13 hours out of your day. Say you sleep 8 hours that is 21 hours. That gives you 3 hours of life a day. No job is worth giving up your life for: remember work to live not live to work. home
bookmarks You can ignore relatives but the neighbours live next doorAs per his statment, It seems he's just making an extra 15 min to reach the office. For this you think he should leave what he calls a "tempting offer" ??
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Hi, I've been offered a new job opportunity today, but it would make me drive at least 2 hours a day, since it is about 100 km far from where I live, and moving closer is not an option. The job is very tempting, but I am not sure about spending so much time in a car. I already drive about 1h30 a day, but 30 minutes more seem to me like ages. What would you guys do ? Do you think I will get used to it ? ~RaGE();
It totally depends on two things. 1 - what is your family situation ? 2 - how good ( apart from the money ) is the job ? If you have a family that hopes to see you, you need to take that into account. If the only good thing is the money, it's not worth having your soul sucked out for. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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digital man wrote:
2 Hours??? Each way???
Well, no, 2 hours each _day_, making it one hour a way. According to your description, it could add up 2 hours to my life, which is still acceptable. However, I have already made the same calculation, that's what I am in doubt right now.
digital man wrote:
No job is worth giving up your life for: remember work to live not live to work.
Yeah I know that, and totally agree. I just wonder why you have emoticoned your message as a joke, I think what you said made plenty of sense. ~RaGE();
Oh... 1 hour each way. That's not so bad. I used to sit in traffic for one and a half to two hour each way. That was to a job only 40kms away. Since then I got a new job that's 70kms away but I work better hours so I miss the traffic. It only takes me about 45 minutes each way now. You can get use to one hour each way. Is the pay more and the work better?
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Ray Kinsella wrote:
Well I spent an hour and fifteen minuts driving less than 10km this morning
:wtf: This is insane, I would not have such patience. Nothing against driving far, but waiting in the car... Why don't you ride your bicycle ? 10 km is not that much, could be achieved in less than an hour. ~RaGE();
Need the car unfortunately ... probabily could have done without it today but! Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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I'd say that would be tough on a new marriage, leaving early in the morning and arriving home late at night. Then again if the job is one that will make you happy then there is that positive to the relationship to consider. Why isn't moving closer an option? Would it move your fiance away from her job so making her commute longer? And congratulations on the pending wedding :) regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you
eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.
Paul Watson wrote:
And congratulations on the pending wedding
Thanks Paul!
Paul Watson wrote:
Why isn't moving closer an option? Would it move your fiance away from her job so making her commute longer?
Yes, that's it more or less. It would also move her away from her familiy (even if it is only a few kilometers), and for some private reasons which I completely agree with, she needs to stay in a closer area. ~RaGE();
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Ray Kinsella wrote:
Well I spent an hour and fifteen minuts driving less than 10km this morning
:wtf: This is insane, I would not have such patience. Nothing against driving far, but waiting in the car... Why don't you ride your bicycle ? 10 km is not that much, could be achieved in less than an hour. ~RaGE();
Rage wrote:
Why don't you ride your bicycle ? 10 km is not that much, could be achieved in less than an hour.
Heck, I can leisurely jog 10km in less than an hour! :)
Ryan
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Oh... 1 hour each way. That's not so bad. I used to sit in traffic for one and a half to two hour each way. That was to a job only 40kms away. Since then I got a new job that's 70kms away but I work better hours so I miss the traffic. It only takes me about 45 minutes each way now. You can get use to one hour each way. Is the pay more and the work better?
"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth foregoing just for an extra three years in a geriatric ward.
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As per his statment, It seems he's just making an extra 15 min to reach the office. For this you think he should leave what he calls a "tempting offer" ??
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VuNic wrote:
an extra 15 min
Here you have to count with time relativity :| . For having done the drive a few times now, I can assure you that the additional 15 minutes seem to last much more than really 15 minutes. The question is whether the feeling remains´when doing it daily, or whether it fades out with time- ~RaGE();
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Rage wrote:
Why don't you ride your bicycle ? 10 km is not that much, could be achieved in less than an hour.
Heck, I can leisurely jog 10km in less than an hour! :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Ryan Binns wrote:
Heck, I can leisurely jog 10km in less than an hour!
:-D For sure. But you would not be able to work right away, I would expect you to be a bit sweaty, whereas riding a bike quietly does not bring you to sweat, usually. And jogging quietly is quite difficult. ~RaGE();
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VuNic wrote:
an extra 15 min
Here you have to count with time relativity :| . For having done the drive a few times now, I can assure you that the additional 15 minutes seem to last much more than really 15 minutes. The question is whether the feeling remains´when doing it daily, or whether it fades out with time- ~RaGE();
Just make a test drive once, you'll know if its comfortable for you or not. If it's a little bit uncomfortable, no problem, you'd certainly get used to it. But if you find it really unconfortable, then day by day, you'll start feeling more and more of it. So decide with the help of your test drive. and also dont forget to think about similar opportunities around the place where you work now. If its possible to find a similar job nearby(may be after sometime), then just drop it.
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Ryan Binns wrote:
Heck, I can leisurely jog 10km in less than an hour!
:-D For sure. But you would not be able to work right away, I would expect you to be a bit sweaty, whereas riding a bike quietly does not bring you to sweat, usually. And jogging quietly is quite difficult. ~RaGE();
Rage wrote:
I would expect you to be a bit sweaty,
Perhaps just a little bit :-O. I can run 10km in about 42min, so an hour really is a leisurely jog :)
Ryan
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Rage wrote:
I would expect you to be a bit sweaty,
Perhaps just a little bit :-O. I can run 10km in about 42min, so an hour really is a leisurely jog :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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Hi, I've been offered a new job opportunity today, but it would make me drive at least 2 hours a day, since it is about 100 km far from where I live, and moving closer is not an option. The job is very tempting, but I am not sure about spending so much time in a car. I already drive about 1h30 a day, but 30 minutes more seem to me like ages. What would you guys do ? Do you think I will get used to it ? ~RaGE();
Rage wrote:
What would you guys do ? Do you think I will get used to it ?
Yes. Do it if you don't like the work you have now! jhaga It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. A[man], seeing me making a minute in the fields, took it for granted that I was calculating my wages. — business! - I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself, than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau
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Hi, I've been offered a new job opportunity today, but it would make me drive at least 2 hours a day, since it is about 100 km far from where I live, and moving closer is not an option. The job is very tempting, but I am not sure about spending so much time in a car. I already drive about 1h30 a day, but 30 minutes more seem to me like ages. What would you guys do ? Do you think I will get used to it ? ~RaGE();
Rage wrote:
What would you guys do ? Do you think I will get used to it ?
Don't know about you, but I left New York exactly because of crazy commuting times. It woulde take me almost 2 hours one way, and after a while it was no fun at all. Commuting is even worse than unpaid overtime IMHO X|
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2 Hours??? Each way??? So, let's say you start work at 0900. You need to leave home by 0700 which means, to have time for a shower and a coffee, you need to be up by 0630. You have an 8 hour day plus an hour for lunch so you leave work at 1800. You don't get home until 2000 (on a good day). By the time you come in and open & deal with the post, your family, the dog and sort out the daily bits that need to be sorted out it's around 2045. Now you need to eat. You're done and washed up by 2130 even if you have someone to make it for you. You sit down and spend some more time with your family hoping that they remember who you are and noting that you only see your (young) children at the weekend: bit like being a part-time or absent parent. 2230: knackered so a final check of the email, kiss your loved ones goodnight and off to bed. Welcome to your world - the job takes around 13 hours out of your day. Say you sleep 8 hours that is 21 hours. That gives you 3 hours of life a day. No job is worth giving up your life for: remember work to live not live to work. home
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Rage wrote:
I would expect you to be a bit sweaty,
Perhaps just a little bit :-O. I can run 10km in about 42min, so an hour really is a leisurely jog :)
Ryan
"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
Braggart :-D. My best 10K time is a tad over 56 minutes :sigh:.
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Ryan Binns wrote:
Heck, I can leisurely jog 10km in less than an hour!
:-D For sure. But you would not be able to work right away, I would expect you to be a bit sweaty, whereas riding a bike quietly does not bring you to sweat, usually. And jogging quietly is quite difficult. ~RaGE();
Rage wrote:
a bike quietly does not bring you to sweat
I can't imagine riding and not sweating. I'm in good shape, but I sweat at the drop of a hat. Any hat. Hats in Cleveland.
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