Wondering how long each day everyone travels for work!
Personally I drive about 1hr (~70km) to work but may consider renting closer.
How long do you spend travelling for work?
LKolkolnut on 13/05/2019 - 14:05
Poll Options
- 19I work from home
- 64<20 minutes
- 6520 - 40 minutes
- 57Up to 1 hr
- 181.5 hrs
- 142hrs +
Comments
25 minutes to and 35 minutes from due to traffic differences
25km each way
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Where do you live so you're able to average 60km/h?
RADelaide
Half the drive is made up of 60 zones, the other half is higher.
MY PB is 21 minutes to (all green lights)
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4-5mins drive each way
i roll over to the other side of the bed
Door to door is 1 hour 20 minutes …. if there is no train delays
yep me too at the moment, it sucks
i telecommute twice a week. otherwise an hour each way
I make many return commutes from my study to my kitchen.
is the poll for to and return from work or just one way?
Each way I'd imagine.
About 5 minutes each way, unless I work from home.
Lacking option - I live at work.
My commute to work is getting ridiculous. I should move in the office. We have a shower and kitchen.
I literally used to live at work. I have a fully kitted dwelling.
I live 15km from work. It takes me on average just under an hour. On occasions it has taken 1hr 20min to 1hr 30min.
I drive about 1hr (~70km) to work
How do you manage that? I live 30km from work, and it takes me an hour each way each day, and about 20-25km of that is on roads with an 80kmh speed limit.
I hop onto the M1 and stay on it for most of the hour until I am in the Gippsland region. I am considering to stay closer to work though!
It used to be 10 km which was perfect for when I was training for marathons but we've since moved closer. I'm only 6.5 km away from work and we now have a toddler that I have to drop off at kinder in the morning. So I drive and I get stuck in traffic and it sucks :(
How many marathons have you done?
Not all that many actually : only 6 and 4 out of those were 10kms.
You?
Ps: Have we met IRL? Was it the city2surf one?
Zip.
The longest I've run is the C2S. The last was 3 years ago when the wife let me with a young one at home; now there's 2 so it will be a long time.
Haven't met, but it would be interesting like altomic & mskeggs.
it would be interesting
It would.You are a stay-at-home dad , aren't you? I'm going to become one in a couple of years and I don't really know what to expect. I would have so many questions for you :)
@[Deactivated]: Yes, I'm a stay a home Dad but luckily wife is a stay at home Mum. Feel free to ask anything, but it's rare that I have both for long (e.g. when Mum has her dental check up) because second is only 13.5 months and he's very clingy - so my experience is not be as broad as a normal stay at home Mum or Dad.
@[Deactivated]: No. I've taken a 3+ career break before. Next step would be senior management which is an all or nothing proposition and not for me because I have many other interests and I am selfish in that I will only make that kind of sacrifice for my own business.
I do miss the ability to work uninterrupted and want to be able to spend more time on my next book, transition into being a company director and a couple of other projects, which have progressed very slowly. All of these things I've been happy to sacrifice to be able to spend time with the kids as they've grown up and raise them as a team with my wife. And despite their relentless call on my time, I've been able to achieve two things that I've been very happy with, one of which I didn't even realise was important!
And despite their relentless call on my time, I've been able to achieve two things that I've been very happy with, one of which I didn't even realise was important!
Are we talking about your family life?
My wife was told that she wouldn't be able to conceive naturally and yet we now have 3 ( totally unplanned ) kids and I am forever grateful for them.They bring a lot of joy and fulfillment to our lives. They are completely amazing and the very definition of 'lovable'.
That being said, they are also chaotic ,full of beans and terribly , terribly accident-prone 🙄 I often find myself longing for the peace and quiet of my work lab after a weekend spent with my family and looking forward to seeing my dragonness of an EA, who not only keeps everyone away from me but also brings a sense of organisation to my work life that I sorely miss when I'm at home with family (or as Dne would call them, my fambam.)
The thought of retiring and looking after the kids full-time, in a country where I understand but can't speak the local language, is very daunting.
to spend more time on my next book, transition into being a company director and a couple of other projects
Are you a published author?
Are we talking about your family life?
I didn't realise how important biomechanics and movement (not just running/playing sports, etc.) and alignment is; we've passed this onto the kids.
Yes - Wiley.
It will be helpful if you can participate in some network you're comfortable with if you're looking after the kids full-time. E.g. mothers have mothers group; my wife has her bible study group which includes mothers at similar stages but also the community around us in our street, suburb, etc.
The language barrier will make integration difficult, but it depends if you're introverted or extroverted. If you're introverted, let your wife build the bridges of connection for you (like I partially do).
Yes - Wiley
Was it a Companion to romanticism ?:b If it was , you probably have a lot in common with my wife. She studied 16th and 19th century English literature. Romanticism was late 19th, wasn't it?
depends if you're introverted or extroverted.
Depends on who you ask. Personally, I would say I'm friendly and an all-round good guy and that everyone loves me.
However, our new neighbour, 3 doors down, has described us as " Lovely family. Nice, polite kids and the missus is a stunner! The dog's a friendly little thing too. The husband is a bit up himself though. Could have been worse". Everyone got positive reviews except me . Even the dog! :(
The couple of ozbargainers I've met in the wild have not exactly been complimentary about me either. They've said things like:
"Oh! you're British" - No , I'm not.
" You're so posh!" - This was from someone I've met at woolies in Thrift Park while I was buying half-price ice-cream
"You're white! I thought you were black" - Racist , much?
"You wear turtle glasses and a t-shirt?!" said with a disapproving frown on their face.
Sounds like there's a lot I need to work on: my social skills , my dress style, my enunciation, my tan, my eyesight … before I become acceptable to society. I'll do that while I'm in Mauritius. Should keep me busy while the kiddos are at school :)
let your wife build the bridges of connection for you
Yes,this.
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation, and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.
I still can't believe she married that buffoon of a man.
I've only read that novel ( penguin edition , unabridged version) to impress a really pretty girl I'd met at uni. The book smelled like her : like walking through a field of wildflowers on a beautiful spring day :)
I've also read Jane Eyre from Charlotte Bronte which I did prefer to P&P and S&S. I also learned french. The things we do for love…
Everyone got positive reviews except me . Even the dog! :(
If nondescript in neighbourly review, may be because, just very occasionally, you present as being slightly self-absorbed…
A possible reason there..
;)(or as Dne would call them, my fambam.)
I certainly could never have been as absorbed by or into social media, sufficient to have used the word fambam…
Probsprobably just a typo - as I was plaintively trying to teach you about the interlinked families and music of Mali.
Yes, that would have been the reason.Now, kindly go and knit Maya a Hello Kitty Beanie! Farfetched, if to reckon that you can do as well as this…
:)
present as being slightly self-absorbed…
Hmm…To quote from a religious text, à la Israel Folau:
One who sees everything as nothing but the Self, and the Self in everything one sees, such a seer withdraws from nothing. For the enlightened, all that exists is nothing but the Self, so how could any suffering or delusion continue for those who know this oneness?
😋
Yes, Maya is here. We're all growing very fond of her and her of us. Spidey aka Cheese Pease has started calling her "my Maya" :) But her favourite is my eldest son : she keeps looking at him with heart eyes and telling him how smart he is🙄
@[Deactivated]: Self-absorbed and self-aware not quite the same thing, but probably together form a certain sort of oneness.
Kora players notably thin on the ground, even when gathered together -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Kora_players
Maybe Maya, might become the first Japanese, one?Koala motif instead of Hello Kitty would be excellent swap for that beanie you are knitting.
🐨Spidey aka Cheese Pease calls her "my Maya" :)
Soon to be just abridged version of "my Maya - my Willing Provider of Cheese." :-)
Koala motif instead of Hello Kitty would be excellent swap for that beanie you are knitting.
You need skinny arms to make beanies; with guns like mine you can only make blankets.Shouganai 🤷♂️
Edit: What I said above may or may not be true. I only said it so that I could use my favourite japanese word😁
@[Deactivated]: Translate says not something a Japanese F1 driver would do on the podium, more likely something would say after running into a barrier. Still is an interesting word.🏎
18 mins cycling 4km.
1hr 10 min cycling to work and back
Between 15 and 20 mins.
12.5km to work.Wander off to my kitchen, or 2 steps out of bed to my desk. Pants optional.
1.4km by road, i Bought the work building first, then the house the next year and have home office for the days i cant be bothered with shoes, (Monday and Friday)
"For work" or "to work".
They mean completely different things.If the trains are running on time 40mins Erskineville to Parramatta.
About the same coming home but I'll often get off at Newtown or Redfern and walk to clear the head so that adds 10-20mins
Roughly just a 10km drive that is around 15-20 mins long in South Western Sydney.
I rent a place about a 15 minute walk to my job, 30 minute on the bus to my partners job.Thought about moving further away for cheaper rent, but at the cost of $60 a week on transport for both my girlfriend and I, it makes alot more sense to spend some of that potential $120 per week on a nicer place to live and closer to work.
Saving money, stress and ultimately time, only downside is living in a hub, all the noise and air pollution that comes with it.