Is an hour too long of a commute?

[DMAN]

An hour commute is beautiful if you have a do-nothing job and you take public transport. If you actually have to do labor or something it would be excruciating to drive an hour before you get home.

My commute to school back in the day was sometimes 90 minutes and involved 2 buses and 2 subway car rides. This was when the iPod was first hitting so I would zone out to dopey music or my twalk shows I downloaded illegally. It was very relaxing to have someone else drive, and you just enjoy the view of the city.

 

[Jack_Horner]

Suffering through a three hour long commute is one of the dumbest mistakes I've ever made in my life.

Basically, I saved up enough money to buy a teeny tiny condo near work, or a 3br/2ba with a four car garage and a big backyard out in the suburbs.

I went for option 2, because I'd always wanted somewhere that I could do woodworking and stuff.

I really didn't grasp how little time is left in the day when you're at your desk for eight hours and stuck in traffic for three. My dreams of working in the garage were stupid, because there was no time to work in the garage. I would have been better off just getting the condo and doing woodworking in my driveway. I know a dude who was living out of a hotel in China for a work assignment, and he was doing woodworking in the hotel room.

I ended up taking a 40% pay cut for a job that would let me work from home. My quality of life actually got a lot better; I was making a fraction as much, but I moved to an even cheaper area, and stopped dealing with traffic entirely. I've been working from home for sixteen years now.

 

[Voscabulary]

Suffering through a three hour long commute is one of the dumbest mistakes I've ever made in my life.

Basically, I saved up enough money to buy a teeny tiny condo near work, or a 3br/2ba with a four car garage and a big backyard out in the suburbs.

I went for option 2, because I'd always wanted somewhere that I could do woodworking and stuff.

I really didn't grasp how little time is left in the day when you're at your desk for eight hours and stuck in traffic for three. My dreams of working in the garage were stupid, because there was no time to work in the garage. I would have been better off just getting the condo and doing woodworking in my driveway. I know a dude who was living out of a hotel in China for a work assignment, and he was doing woodworking in the hotel room.

I ended up taking a 40% pay cut for a job that would let me work from home. My quality of life actually got a lot better; I was making a fraction as much, but I moved to an even cheaper area, and stopped dealing with traffic entirely. I've been working from home for sixteen years now.

didn't have to deal with a grueling commute like that, but I can relate to taking a far worse paying job in favour of your overall well being. I made money that was making my head spin at my last job, but it was destroying me physically, mentally, and socially (everyone I knew would be out having fun whilst I was stuck working)

ended up settling for a boring but comfortable desk job with more reliable hours. less money, but now I'm no longer suicidally depressed lol

 

[Harry Powell]

Suffering through a three hour long commute is one of the dumbest mistakes I've ever made in my life.

Basically, I saved up enough money to buy a teeny tiny condo near work, or a 3br/2ba with a four car garage and a big backyard out in the suburbs.

I went for option 2, because I'd always wanted somewhere that I could do woodworking and stuff.

I really didn't grasp how little time is left in the day when you're at your desk for eight hours and stuck in traffic for three. My dreams of working in the garage were stupid, because there was no time to work in the garage. I would have been better off just getting the condo and doing woodworking in my driveway. I know a dude who was living out of a hotel in China for a work assignment, and he was doing woodworking in the hotel room.

I ended up taking a 40% pay cut for a job that would let me work from home. My quality of life actually got a lot better; I was making a fraction as much, but I moved to an even cheaper area, and stopped dealing with traffic entirely. I've been working from home for sixteen years now.

How important was the woodworking?

 

[TomFromNawlins]

Havent had to stray far from I-76 yet

The Surekill is a nightmare. How are those slowdowns around the Conshohocken curve?

Goin’ a lil local on a Friday for the Philly Crew.

 

[NortheastPhilly]

The Surekill is a nightmare. How are those slowdowns around the Conshohocken curve?

Goin’ a lil local on a Friday for the Philly Crew.

I beat all the traffic and fly from the bridge to Conshohocken in 20 mins. It fucking rules.
Waking up at 4:30 though, does not rule

 

[Uncle Floyd]

My current commute is 25-30 minutes door-to-door.

The most I ever had to do is 90 minutes each way. It was my first job out of college and it paid poverty wages, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.

Don't major in poli sci, kids.

I worked at 12th and New York down in Metro Center and had an apartment at 12th and Mass. Could walk to the office in 5 minutes.

Would take the big-nipped Vietnamese copy editor home for lunch, get my nut off, and both be back at our desks within 60 minutes.

 

[Build Black Better]

Havent had to stray far from I-76 yet

The Walt Whitman Bridge and the Surekill Expressway? Hope you don't have to go all the way to KOP. Thoughts and prayers, brother. Don't stray far from I-76 in South Philly.

Edit: I see you described your commute in more detail while I was busy searching nigger memes.

 

[guest]

Nice giving your lives up to the grind

serious, w t f?
I'd rather live on the street or a roach filled apartment with 3 junkies than live at my parents house at 27.
Does nephilly have no pride? no shame?
Why the fuck would you do the normie plan of saving up money for a house in the burbs, marrying a 6, she baloons up after a few kids, you coach little league, .... nigger it's not fucking 1950. use the internet and make a few fousands like a degenerate using your savings, spend all your free time reading Wall street bets instead of going out to fuck some slags with the philly crew on the weekend....
is ne philly just destined to be the average joe? lunch pale in camo...

 

[Consensual Rapist]

Just go on here while you’re driving down the freeway. It’s what I always do to kill time.

 

[Build Black Better]

Just go on here while you’re driving down the freeway. It’s what I always do to kill time myself and other drivers.

I just do it at long traffic lights and then get honked at from behind when I'm balls deep into Owen.

 

[Consensual Rapist]

I just do it at long traffic lights and then get honked at from behind when I'm balls deep into Owen.

Give them the finger, followed by waving a gun for good measure.

 

[Build Black Better]

Give them the finger, followed by waving a gun for good measure.

Like a real ass Texan! If he's like "dick, move!" the dick move is to roll coal on him.

 

[JoeCumiawearsDIAPERS]

I do an hour each way a few days a week. It’s literal background noise to me.

It’s 2 hours where I can just put on an old episode with Patrice in the studio and get nostalgic about the days when your psycho bodyguard could choke out a Stern fan as you humiliated them live on the air and you somehow continue to make millions for another 10 years.

Or even just listening to a random clip about how Sadaam, Gerald Ford, and James Brown all died within a week of each other.

Edit - having a full electric car really makes it a lot more tolerable.

 

[Jack_Horner]

didn't have to deal with a grueling commute like that, but I can relate to taking a far worse paying job in favour of your overall well being. I made money that was making my head spin at my last job, but it was destroying me physically, mentally, and socially (everyone I knew would be out having fun whilst I was stuck working)

ended up settling for a boring but comfortable desk job with more reliable hours. less money, but now I'm no longer suicidally depressed lol

I wrote a book on double dipping over at Reddit, and decided to go full retard and crank it up to four jobs. Ended up in the hospital. Oopsie doodles!

Won't be doing that again.

 

[Jack_Horner]

Would take the big-nipped Vietnamese copy editor home for lunch, get my nut off, and both be back at our desks within 60 minutes.

Was his name "Short Round?"

 

[guest]

I will never not work from home again.

 

[Petworth dude]

I worked at 12th and New York down in Metro Center and had an apartment at 12th and Mass. Could walk to the office in 5 minutes.

Would take the big-nipped Vietnamese copy editor home for lunch, get my nut off, and both be back at our desks within 60 minutes.

Sounds nice. My current commute is from Mount Pleasant to downtown DC. The 90-minute each way thing was I was fresh out of college, going between Rockville and Alexandria. Job opportunities were shit, but it was a significant improvement from being an unpaid intern and waiting tables on nights and weekends.

 

[Chive Turkey]

An hour commute is beautiful if you have a do-nothing job and you take public transport. If you actually have to do labor or something it would be excruciating to drive an hour before you get home.

My commute to school back in the day was sometimes 90 minutes and involved 2 buses and 2 subway car rides. This was when the iPod was first hitting so I would zone out to dopey music or my twalk shows I downloaded illegally. It was very relaxing to have someone else drive, and you just enjoy the view of the city.

Yeah, if you live in a place that's got decent public transportation, an hour is just pfg these days. Especially Euro-Asian style trains where you got a table to yourself. Covid indoctrination just means nobody's gonna sit next to you either. You can just drink your cawfee, eat your bacon-egg-cheese roll in peace and open up your laptop/phone to prepare for the day or goof off and look at this place. Wageslaving has never been easier.

 

[aRTie02150]

Yeah, if you live in a place that's got decent public transportation, an hour is just pfg these days. Especially Euro-Asian style trains where you got a table to yourself. Covid indoctrination just means nobody's gonna sit next to you either. You can just drink your cawfee, eat your bacon-egg-cheese roll in peace and open up your laptop/phone to prepare for the day or goof off and look at this place. Wageslaving has never been easier.

I don't miss communicating on the trains and busses in Boston. Miserable commutes.