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I never got used to the Microsoft commute, and that was rarely worse than 90 minutes coming home. It sucked, it continued to suck, it never got any better, it r
by marssaxman 11y ago
I never got used to the Microsoft commute, and that was rarely worse than 90 minutes coming home. It sucked, it continued to suck, it never got any better, it ruined my day, I hated my life, and it felt so good to drive away on my last day of that terrible job knowing I would never again have to spend any time on SR520 if I didn't want to. (I avoided that road for years afterward, actually, even when it would have been the sensible route to wherever I was going.)
I'm not going to try to get used to it, never again. Life is too short to waste that much of it in hell. I won't even consider a job with a bad commute anymore. If that limits my employment prospects, so be it - I have a life to live!
- jeffinhat 11y agoWas the connector not an option for you or have things gotten better? I commute in slightly off hours (7am and 4pm) and it consistently takes ~35 minutes door to door.
- marssaxman 11y agoThe connector was not an option for me. I quit in 2009; things may well have gotten better since then.
- infinite8s 11y agoCommuting by car is much worse than commuting by bus or train (for any time greater than 45 min).
- marssaxman 11y agoYour bus options must be a hell of a lot nicer than mine. (I haven't had the option of commuting by train since college, alas.)
- sammydavis 11y agowow, where did you live where getting to microsoft via 520 took 1.5 hours? 1 hour i believe as an occasional max. maybe across puget sound?
- marssaxman 11y agoGetting to Microsoft never took all that long - it was getting home that took forever and sucked the life out of me.
- jschwartzi 11y agoYeah, I have the same issue going south on I-405 in the afternoon. The road is clogged from 3 miles north of Bellevue and remains clogged until a couple miles south of I-90. I used to spend 50% of my commute time in that pile. We really needed to build rail in the space where we added a toll lane.
- infinite8s 11y agoNYC metro area - I've been commuting by train, but I know many people who live in NJ who commute in by bus.
- wernercd 11y agoI commute ~60 minutes each direction by car. My drive is simple: few minutes to main road from work/home... 55 minutes north/south on a single road... few minutes to work/home. The time honestly dissapears... Podcasts and/or audio books. The scary part is how much time is spent on "auto-pilot".