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- OBBTKN0
In past jobs i drived for 2 or 3 hours by day to get to the office (here where i live the people said i´m mad) but the experience aquired in this job opened the doors for other better jobs...
Now i´ve got 2 kiddies at home and i don´t think on doing more than half an hour commute for day.
But you´ve got a baby on the way, need the money, and 6 months is not time...
Take it, and do all the money you can do.
- jamble0
I recently worked on a 4 week contract that was the best part of 2 hours each way travel. It destroys your day, if you're working 7-8 hours then adding on another 4 it's a very very long day.
Still, I can sympathise, you need the security and if you're willing to do the travel and need the work then go for it.
The only good thing about a longer commute on the train is the amount of books you can read!
- lvl_130
haha nice! yeah i def. want to get into it!
believe it or not, my ex-girlfriend worked with the girlfriend of the only guy that i found that is an instructor here in minnesota!i talked to him a while back while i was still dating my ex. and he said he would take me out any time i wanted to go!
aformentioned girlfriend and i broke up shortly after, and i have yet to get a hold of the guy since :\ (even sent him emails asking for paid instruction...no luck)
sucks, 'cause i have wanted to try paragliding for years now! years i tell you!
- j_red0
i don't :)
there are spots to fly here, over by the delaware water gap, etc, but it's not worth the two-hour drive to MAYBE fly....
I try to travel as much as possible, just got back from utah today...
this is a spot i flew last summer in golden, bc.i don't know of any pilots in MN, i'm sure there's something though...fyi if you want my opinion you should DEFINITELY get into it, it's the most amazing thing ever.
- jeffrey0
I thought he said uruglide.
- lvl_130
hey j_red (off topic, sorry) where the heck do you paraglide in nj?!
i'm still trying to get connected with an instructor here in minneapolis...sigh :\
- j_red0
if the job's giving you security then why not? If it's a decent job then go for it, you can always keep looking.
FYI to the non NY-ers* - longer commutes in NYC are common, sitting on the train is used as meditation/nap/hangout time.
P.S. My wife is 3 months along with our first, I can relate to how you're feeling
*i'm actually a NJ-er, i live in hoboken so i have a complex about calling myself a NY-er
- Jaline0
Hmmm...2 hours is suspect.
However, if you need this, if it's a good job, and you are probably only going it for 6 months, go for it.
If you have a laptop or something with you time will fly.
- GreedoLives0
http://www.newyorker.com/reporti…
great article in the new yorker about commuting. some food for thought, esp. the parts about them pointing out that happiness and commuting time are very interdependent. its a long read, but well worth it.
- fezenstein0
i commuted 2 hours there and back 3 days a week, worked from home the rest. and it was shitty to say the least. but i was able to do it, i made better money, staying up was worse, $50/night in a shithole, with no one to hang out with and nothing to do. I got used to the drive. the money was worth it for a short period of time.
- jeffrey0
My commute is only 40 min each way (decent for nyc) and I've been able to haul the Neil Stephenson books along with me and cruise right though them chunk by chunk, standing up all the while.
Obvious point, but a good variety of books fed intravenously at regular intervals in such a manner really adds to one's intellect and creativity.
So now I'm still stupid (congenital defect), but man can I rattle off some obscurities that impress the client.
Heh.
- epigraph0
thanks for the input fellas, lot more activity on this thread than I thought there would be at 11 pm.
I gotta hit the hay. Maybe the answer will come to me in a dream...
- Mimio0
It's do-able, but painful. Good luck, hang in there.
- epigraph0
and thanks slinky but most of my stuff is student work....this will be my first "real" job, and a lot of places have balked at my lack of experience
- two-zero0
609 to 973 commute is brutal ... but on a train, different story. good luck with whatever you decide.
- epigraph0
Nah clifton, glorious clifton
- epigraph0
my thoughts exactly jeffrey, I got a reading list compilation going on...I jumped the gun and started one that I was really interested in. Flight by sherman alexie, pretty good so far.
- slinky0
I used to do 1.5-2 hours EACH WAY working for the Washington Times newspaper for 4 years. And I DROVE and it was ONLY about 28 miles each way.
& they paid a lot less than 41K...
oh. looking at your work... you should easily be making way more than what they are offering.
for 6 months? you can do it... you're doing it for a family... do it, that's what men do.. sacrifice.
- two-zero0
it was only 6 months then i was moving and leaving, so it wasn't bad. sports radio and tons of Cds kept me going ... wish i had an iPod then. wouldn't happen to be in Paramus would it?
- lvl_130
i took much too long to write my above response!
i started writing that when there was only one response to the thread! so probably disregard everyting i said.