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15h / 5 days is 3h / day -- 1.5 hours each way, that's a long commute. The average commute in the US is 20 min each way. Suburbanites mostly jump to nearby su
by randcraw 9y ago
15h / 5 days is 3h / day -- 1.5 hours each way, that's a long commute.
The average commute in the US is 20 min each way. Suburbanites mostly jump to nearby suburbs. It's the urbanites & rurals who outlie, with interminable train rides or stops-and-gos via SUV & long highway drives to a bigger town an hour away.
A map of US commute times:
https://lifehacker.com/this-map-shows-the-average-commute-time-in-every-u-s-c-1796559696 https://lifehacker.com/this-map-shows-the-average-commute-ti...
- tjic 9y agoI did this for six months. I live in NH, I got a well paying contract in MA, and they needed me to work 60 hrs/week to rescue a project. The 60 hrs/week is key, because it made the ratio of billable hours to wasted hours plausible - 15 hours of commute to 40 of billable is terrible, but 15:60 made some sense. Those six months (plus the side remote consulting gig I did on the weekend) almost killed me, but they also let me pay off about 1/3 of my mortgage in half a year.
- skinnymuch 9y agoWould you do it again if something awful happened and you all of a sudden were in the same spot you were when you did that work (less or none of your mortgage paid off or something). Just wondering. Seems like it sucked but worthwhile if it paid off 1/3 of your mortgage. Good job!
- cm2012 9y agoI did that commute for 5 years in NYC. Now work from home:)
- StillBored 9y agoThe map is cool, but you will notice the longest commute times are also where the majority of the population lives (a few big cities).