Posted on 04/13/2006 2:39:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Makes me feel guilty for complaining about having a 120 mile round trip commute early in my career. Did it for four years. Sometimes I miss it.
My longest commute was 55 miles (110 miles roundtrip), door to door, between Palm Beach and my office in Miami. Thankfully, it only lasted three months when I finally got a place a mere mile away from the office.
Why?
It would be reasonably practical for me to commute to work in my Lanciar 235 that I keep at a hangar house in the Arizona Mountains. I work less than 100 yards from the fence at Scottsdale Airport, 40 air minutes away.
My only problem is I can't persuade the airport to give me a key to get through the gate, and the nearest public gate is on the opposite side of the runway, 1.5 miles walking. I don't want to buy another car to leave over there, because I haven't committed to doing this every day.
But if my wife gets set up to telecommute, we'll sell the house down here and maybe I'll buy the extra car.
Now if this was Falcon Field instead of Scottsdale, they don't even have a fence. It's great, like a timewarp to 1960. I hope they never build one. It's a waste anyway, because a bad guy could cut a hole in the fence in the dark any time they wanted at almost any public airport in the country, and probably most Air Force Bases too (I used to work in a nuclear weapon area in the AF, so I know what security is, and what it isn't).
When my house here in Fountain Hills was damaged last fall, I commuted 120 miles one way for several weeks. About 2.3 hours each way. I'd do it, but my wife doesn't like me being gone so long.
Well, at least he has a chance to catch up on his reading and keep up with current events...
As an engineer, he probably needs the extra "alone time" anyway.
LOL!
Why do you drive a mile? Are you missing a leg?
For too many years I commuted too far, so I've finally built a house 1/2 mile from my office.
There weren't enough construction people surveyed in this contest. I have a superintendent that works for me that does about 340 miles most days. About once a week he stays at the jobsite area to work late, but he has done it for over a year and a half and I doubt that I couldn't find a lot of construction people that routinely do 250 to 400.
Considering their product Cisco apparently don't understand what it can do. For a network company, they are pretty well clueless about working remotely. They were like this years ago and have not learned a thing since then.
Yeah but Cisco frown on telecommuting. Go figure, eh?
It gets cold in Iowa, and sometimes it rains. I'll be riding a bike to work a lot soon though; that might push my time up to around 6-7 minutes...
Most of my career has been as a road whore of one form or another.
I spent years flying out Monday first flight, back Thursday on the red eye. Often I would see both coasts more than once in a week. My skills were rare and the money was insane.
But my worst was living in North Idaho and working in Tacoma Wa. 355 miles door to door. I drove over Sunday night and back Friday after lunch for 18 months. Driving was timewise more efficient than flying. Again the money was insane and my industry had taken a dive so my skills weren't in such demand I did what I had to to keep my family afloat money wise.
After 18 months I was done. Took a 50% pay cut and now work 33 miles from home. I'm fortunate that I could afford to take the cut (all those years getting insane fundage went to good use). It sure is nice to go home and see the kids,wife,dogs.
The problem is that once you've sold your soul to the road it can be VERY hard to quit. Once a road whore always a road whore. Kids have really tempered my traveling bone, but deep down I miss getting on airplanes and having adventures in new places...aaaaaand getting paid handsomely for my efforts.
Don't miss getting fondled by TSA.
Nice machine. :-)
I used to fly a green and white 1968 Mooney M20F (Executive 21)
Lived for a year in West Des Moines ('88-89), walked to school all of 8th grade (since the hills on the golf course were between me and the school it was uphill both ways ;)
Fortunately pops got a job that allowed us to move back to Florida, and I haven't left since. I had a 1 mile walk to work until moving this February. I'm 5 miles away now, but spend >20hrs a week working from home.
Ouch.
Why else do you think I am in Bayonne right now? Its not like I enjoy the sight on container cranes and Newark bay.
I really hate it if I have to refill the dog's water bowl on the way to the office. It doubles my commute time from thirty seconds!
Oh yea!
Kids have really tempered my traveling bone,
I never had those. LOL! (too busy being a road whore) hehe
but deep down I miss getting on airplanes and having adventures in new places...aaaaaand getting paid handsomely for my efforts.
Yes and no. I still fly but not nearly as much. Being stuck in SFO for 20 hours at a time due to United maint or weather got really old after a while. Fortunately I only flew first class. (that helped A LOT) LOL!
Don't miss getting fondled by TSA.
I hear ya!
And if he runs Cisco then he is an even bigger idiot. One of the advantages of being the boss is making the work come to you.
I think maybe you mistook my meaning. The folks I knew lived in 200k large houses because they're so far from work. The one guy paid off his house in 3 years, on 10 acres or so. The downside of course is your family suffers. I work in central Bergen but I live up in the hills and because of it, we can live on my Salary alone. Of course I face the nightmare of routes 23/287/208/4 or 23/80 depending on how I go.
I used to live in Montclair when I worked in Manhatten(via bus, ugh), both of us had to work just to stay even. It's simply not worth it. I'd rather commute, since I live in the hills and can look across the lake every morning. 7 hours a day is just nutz though.
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