> commuting 90 minutes through hellish traffic I used to commute 90 minutes each way to and from work, back in the 1990's. One day I added up all that time I w

> commuting 90 minutes through hellish traffic I used to commute 90 minutes each way to and from work, back in the 1990's. One day I added up all that time I was spending sitting in traffic and it totaled an entire month of my life just sitting in traffic. My year was essentially 11 months long, not 12. I told my boss "In two weeks I'm not coming in to the office anymore". He said I could work from home, back when 56k modems were the fastest available. The company went out of business about 6 months later, so maybe he knew about that or maybe not, but those 6 months were amazing. I found another job that was a 15 minute bus ride away, and went back to an office but it was a far better situation. Oh, I also gave up driving completely, the city actually towed away my shitty car because it hadn't been driven in 6 months. Good riddance! I didn't drive for about 20 years, until I met my wife who had a car. I got a license so I could drive her around. I still don't own my own car, and now I've been working at home for almost 5 years. I'm never going back to an office if I can avoid it at all.