What is the distance you drive to work?

[Hamrhed]

I am considering a job offer w/ a great company- but I would have to drive about an hour one way There is an option to stay close to the jobsite during the week in a company-provided home...

Just wondering whats the farthest you guys drive to work?

[PBassTX]

My office is 6 steps further away from the master bedroom in the house I live in now. When my wife and I were looking at this house, I told her that I wasn't sure that I was up for a longer commute to the office. Working out of the house is GREAT. I have been doing it for a little over 10 years now. It has some challenges with school age children, but other than that it's awesome....

I don't know if I could handle a long drive to the office.

[tplyons]

39.8 miles. 45 minutes twice a day.

No complaints here.

[Chunk-O-Funk]

About a 12 mile drive. Takes about 25 min to half an hour depending on the weekday traffic. Should only take 15 to 20 min.

[Hamrhed]

Originally Posted by tplyons

39.8 miles. 45 minutes twice a day.

No complaints here.

I did that for years stopping about 5 years ago... I didnt mind it so much but I was working a 6 week swing shift and that didnt help much. Good thing about the new opportunity is at least it is straight day shift!

Originally Posted by Chunk-O-Funk

About a 12 mile drive. Takes about 25 min to half an hour depending on the weekday traffic. Should only take 15 to 20 min.

That was my last commute... thats not too bad

[jwbassman]

My commute is 25 miles each way, takes about 30 to 45min depending on traffic.

[mike_v_s]

My commute depends on where I'm working. Never less than 37 miles. Recently it's been about 43. Figure on 45 minutes in and 1 hour out.

Mike

[Nedmundo]

Mine's 27 miles, from downtown Philly to suburban Wilmington, Delaware. It's 35-40 to Wilmington, and usually 40-50 back into Philly depending on traffic. After walking to work for six years, it took awhile to adjust, but now I don't mind at all.

[tplyons]

Originally Posted by Hamrhed

I did that for years stopping about 5 years ago... I didnt mind it so much but I was working a 6 week swing shift and that didnt help much. Good thing about the new opportunity is at least it is straight day shift!

The big thing for me is that I'm not sitting in traffic the whole time. I encounter backups at the interchange between two highways, otherwise the traffic isn't too bad. I also am in before rush hour and leave before rush hour and the majority of the traffic is going the other direction.

[Hamrhed]

Originally Posted by tplyons

The big thing for me is that I'm not sitting in traffic the whole time. I encounter backups at the interchange between two highways, otherwise the traffic isn't too bad. I also am in before rush hour and leave before rush hour and the majority of the traffic is going the other direction.

The drive in (5am) would be gravy for me, the drive home not much worse but for some single lane driving... most of the driving would be rural

[Unrepresented]

I live about 10 miles away from my work. It usually takes me 20-25 minutes to go from my front door to clocking in, though much of that time is typically wasted on metering lights on the freeway entrance and finding a parking place at our inadequately sized lot.

[TrooperFarva]

My last job was 13 miles each way, which took about 25 minutes, it was all back roads.

My new job is 24 miles, but it only takes about 30 minutes, because it's mostly highways, and there's rarely traffic. But once I get settled in, I have the option of working at home pretty much all the time.

My first job was 56 miles each way, took about an hour and fifteen minutes each way, and traffic could easily get very heavy. I dealt with that commute for 3 years. It was one of the reasons I left. Incompetent management was the other reason.

[Phalex]

6 miles. Take about 15 to 20 minutes. (Through town)

[Selta]

My commute up to about 6 months ago was just about an hour each way. Now it's about 35 minutes each way.

[xgator4u]

Job # 1= 7.4 miles. 25-45 minutes depending on red lights.
Job # 2= 39.7 miles 40-45 minutes, mostly freeway.
Gigs,= whatever...

[Jared Lash]

Originally Posted by jwbassman

My commute is 25 miles each way, takes about 30 to 45min depending on traffic.

That's mine as well. 30 minutes in the morning (unless I'm running very late and hit morning commute traffic) and 40-45 minutes on the way home.

Considering I usually leave work between 4 and 4:30 I'm surprised at how much traffic I hit.

[Tama]

I'm really lucky. For the last 20+ years I have worked in the same vocation and my job is only a 8 minute drive from my house. No traffic jams or road rage here, town is only 80,000 people.

Dave

[Kenbuntu]

Four, sometimes 3 minutes bike ride. And starting Monday, 120 km round trip ( to university, winters are going to get brutal.)

[SoonerMatt]

Only one mile. Granted I work in a university biology lab and my house is only a few blocks from campus, albeit the opposite corner of the building.

[Chad Michael]

50 minutes in the morning (take my son to school and get to work)

1 hr 10 min in the evening (pickup son @ Grandma's house on the way home)

2 hours of driving, every day that I work .