assuming he has to be at work at 8am with a two hour drive, why in the hell does he have to get up at 3am???
Posted on 04/08/2012 6:38:10 PM PDT by Altariel
I also live two hours (or more, depending upon traffic)from work. Yeah, Dave...good luck selling the house. Not gonna happen. Foreclosure on one side of me, my house underwater. Let’s be realistic.
I also live two hours (or more, depending upon traffic)from work. Yeah, Dave...good luck selling the house. Not gonna happen. Foreclosure on one side of me, my house underwater. Let’s be realistic.
I guess that depends on how much of a loss they are willing to absorb. I’d be willing to, if I could afford it, to take a 20 grand loss, if it meant having that extra couple of hours a day personal time, but that’s me.
That would be doable, if you only go there to sleep. Lots of eating out and going to movies otherwise.
If he moves a half hour from his job, he gains 3 hours a day or 15 a week. Take a 10 hour a week job delivering pizzas, and he still gets 5 more hours a week to be home.
Maybe rent the house and buy/rent one closer to work.
Even if you have to take a monetary loss, I just don’t think it is worth 4 hours a day of anyone’s time. You’ll never ever get that time back, but you might have a shot at getting the money back somehow.
Exactly.
If he got busy delivering pizzas, on weekends, he’d make up the difference in about a year. Less, if he spent all his free time doing that.
I do like Dave’s common sense financial advice. It’s helped me and my family a lot over the years.
He gets up at 3 a.m. and doesn’t get home until 7 p.m.
I live about thirty-five minutes away from work and it costs me about 200 dollars a month, so it must be costing him upwards of 600 dollars a month in gas.
For a couple of years, my husband and I lived apart, because his work was quite a distance away. He lived in an apartment during the week and came home on weekends.
The price of houses where he worked was (and still is, I believe) astronomical. At least a few years ago, houses are simply not affordable where the jobs are. I saw a show about people who work in L.A. and live 3-4 hours away... they spend all their time commuting. Ick.
assuming he has to be at work at 8am with a two hour drive, why in the hell does he have to get up at 3am???
My guess is so that he has some measure of personal time. Early mornings may be the only time he can make work in his situation.
that must really suck then...
That depends on what he wants to do. I know many serious exercisers who voluntarily get up at 4 or 5, so they can get a really good workout in. That might be what he’s doing.
Wow, I live 25 min from work, 1/2 city driving and I don’t spend half that.
Just saying...
JB
I live in Canada, so part of it is due to our gas price. We are currently paying about 5.40 a gallon.
The other part is that I really like to get home in thirty minutes and not the 37 minutes it would normally take me, if the speed limit was supposed to mean something.:)
i know a couple like that... something i could never do, lucky i can get on the treadmill after work but then again i only have a 25min drive
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