Creatives in NYC. Does having a functional public transportation, and not needing a car to get to work, allow you to get extra work done on the commute? I love being able to get work done when flying. I absolutely hate driving, feels like such wasted time.

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100%. Can write headlines, platforms, ideas, sketch out scripts all in your phone notes app on the train. Naysayers be damned lol. Its great. You can just lock in

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Cold brew, baby 😇

Getting to work is work

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You can work on trains, sure. The subway in NYC is not that type of train tho

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Not really. You could answer a few Slacks and emails on your phone but service is spotty and you’re usually crammed into a car and no one is pulling out a laptop unless you take the train to the suburbs. The bigger pain is that your commute will be 40-60 mins each way.

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It’s not so much that you get work done on the train.

It’s more so that driving anywhere in Manhattan is going to break your sanity.

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I’m sorry this convenience happened to you.

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The one everyone here knows you avoid.

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Echoing all these comments with the CTA in Chicago. If you can work while someone hot boxes the car and piss is splashing around your feet, more power to ya!

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Pretty tough to get work done on a bus or train in NYC unless you’re out in Jersey, Connecticut, or Westchester. Then you have 30 mins to an hour to get work done in a comfy seat with some space.

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I mean, you CAN…

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I did work on Metro North but no way you’re getting work done on subway.

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If you uber to the office

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Metro North is great for working.

The subway is a hellscape for trying to do anything other than zoning out to allow your brain to randomly connect things. Which I do miss because my subway ride home was often when random shot would just click.

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As a mother who needs to bounce from borough to borough, I do work on my commute specially writing headlines and scripts 🤣

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