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Honestly, I feel ya. I used to commute 24 miles in LA traffic which equated to 1.5 to 2 hours to and from. The one thing that legit helped me was Audible. Books on tape kept me sane. Improvement books, biographies, fiction, etc.
Sometimes you need to do the commute and you can't control what your company wants. But the thing you can control on your commute is how you use the time.
When I lived in LA I commuted from Valencia to the Santa Monica Pier for nearly two years and it almost killed me. And this was before cell phones or satellite radio! I burned so many CDs...
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Mine is exactly 2 hours and 20 minutes one way. 5 hours of my daily life spent commuting. I can’t move and this job is way too good to leave (for now). Thank god for podcasts, audio books and being able to sleep a bit on trains.
(cont. from above) I can't move - my wife's family and her job is in our town and I would be foolish to sell my house, "upgrade" (actually major downgrade) to something way more expensive that is closer, only to lose my job this year and be royally F*cked. This really blows and is taking a huge toll on my mental health.
I’m sorry to hear this. When we were brought back into the office after Covid, (5 years remote), I chang up my work schedule a little, arriving at 6:30am then leaving at 3:00pm, I beat the rush hour traffic. Just a thought?
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Y’all need different jobs for serious
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I’m hanging in for as long as I can because I have a really good pension and I actually really like my job/the work I do. Both which are pretty unheard of in our industry 🥲
How does 15 mins on paper equate to an additional hour?
FWIW my commute is going from 60 to 90 mins with out building change. So I feel you.
If at all possible, arrive in the office earlier, like 6:00am, leave at 3:00pm, beat the traffic.
Suck it up. My commute is 4 hours round trip. On a good day.
Sure it’s about control. But I would prefer to have an income rather than not.
Until recently, I commuted from the northern LA suburbs to downtown LA. It was about 37 miles and normally took about 1.5 hours each way. They usually wanted us in super early which was painful. Definitely not family friendly and was a huge time suck. I don’t mind the actual act of driving—I like cars and I enjoy listening to podcasts. But the opportunity cost of the lost time was crushing.
If you don’t mind me asking, what hours are you away from home just in commuting and working? How do you rest, eat, or exercise?! I’m so sorry :(
I used to commute 2.5 hours each way daily five days a week for 15 years
Nope!!!
This was always the tradeoff: live closer to work/more expensive housing/short commute or live farther from work/less expensive housing/long commute. That's the way it's staying. Nothing is different.
Do you live in Los Angeles
That is tough. Get a motorcycles and/or perhaps adjust your hours to pre or post off peak (I did that for years, go in at 930 or 10 and leave before or after rush hour, for example).
One more reason to live and work in a big city and not in suburban hell
I am sorry to hear! As someone here said though, if you treat it like the worst thing ever, that’s exactly what it will feel like. I use my commute time for everything personal: emails, calls or else to rest, read - anything EXCEPT check work emails is my rule. (The commute shock was real, I literally cried the first week because I had lived for eons just a few minutes away from most jobs I’ve ever). But somehow, I just decided to roll with it. I hope you can too!
Watched a documentary about the Japanese work culture and this sounds similar to how they come with grueling commutes.
I used to work in Hartford Connecticut area while living on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts. The commute was 5 1/2 hours each way twice or four times a week. 3 1/2 hours driving one hour on the boat. Plus an hour of transitioning from car to boat to home. And I have to tell you, I loved it. I loved every single minute of it except when I was running late for that last boat of the day. The reason I loved it is because I loved the work I was doing and the people I was working with and I would walk over hot coals for that kind of situation again.
People in Australia travel a lot longer. It’s not that deep.
I’m Australian and no one I know has a grueling commute. I’m sure it happens but it’s not the norm.
Same. I did it for 6 months spending on average 4-5 hrs a day in traffic with a 2yr old. Luckily he was a good boy and just slept, but yeah I had to always have snacks and energy drinks to stay awake. Brutal.
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I work from home in LA and am terrified of RTO for this reason, among others.