What?
I leave at 5 a.m., and drive 30 minutes to a train station. I try and get there with minutes to spare, but need to prepare for traffic slowdowns, so typically stand on the platform for 10-15 minutes. The train ride takes me 55 minutes.
From there, I jump on a bike and ride 13 miles to my job. I do this in just under an hour.
I do the reverse getting home, between 7:50 and 8:10 on a good night.
Stop being a b*tch, just run to and from work
When are you able to run?
If I had better job options, I wouldn’t do this. But I am very specialized, and this is the best job I could ever hope to get.
I know someone who does Olympia to Redmond
I live in Kenya and I have to run 10km to school and back every day. They keep building schools 10km away from where the population lives. I don’t know why they do that. All my friends have to run 10km to school every day.
jamin wrote:
I know someone who does Olympia to Redmond
No, you don't. You know OF them.
Anyone who spends that much time in traffic is a ghost, knowing no one.
The Boulder to Denver Tech Center/GreenwoodVilkage commute was the worst for me
I once was at a friends BBQ and he and I were talking to a guy we didn’t really know. Small talk. He said he just bought a house in Antioch , Ca and took a job deep into San Jose. We basically spit out our beer, kind of laughed, and said dude, your commute! He said I’ll be fine. A few months later I asked my friend how the dude was doing. Answer: he quit his job. Reason: the commute.
I live 1.4 miles from work and every once in a while I wish the commute was longer.... but overall, I love living that close to work.
Get some good books.
Colorado commuting sh*thead wrote:
The Boulder to Denver Tech Center/GreenwoodVilkage commute was the worst for me
I would slit my wrists if I had to do that commute!
My wife did the same back in the late 90s - she rode the Tech Center bus most of the time, but occasionally drove. We eventually moved to Broomfield after/during the tech bust.
My worst was Broomfield to Pena Blvd via 270 because I couldn't afford the toll for 470. In addition to the wasted time stuck on 270 morning and afternoon, I know that I shaved a decade off of my life by breathing those refinery fumes.
Once, during a snow storm, it took me almost 3 hours to get to work, about 30 min after arriving they sent everyone home. It took the same amount of time to get home ... 6 hours of driving for 30 min. of work!
My commute is bad, but awesome wrote:
What?
I leave at 5 a.m., and drive 30 minutes to a train station. I try and get there with minutes to spare, but need to prepare for traffic slowdowns, so typically stand on the platform for 10-15 minutes. The train ride takes me 55 minutes.
From there, I jump on a bike and ride 13 miles to my job. I do this in just under an hour.
I do the reverse getting home, between 7:50 and 8:10 on a good night.
Your commute blows, get real. Must really suck to ride a bicycle in the rain or cold weather.
Gig Harbor to Issaquah wrote:
Every morning at 4:45 I pile into a van with a bunch of weirdos and ride 65 miles from my small town to Issaquah, WA. It takes 75-90 min to get there and a minimum of 2.5-3 hours to get back when you count the 30 min waiting for the van. This is the cost of living with my dad to save $$ rather than have a life. Precious hours of life wasted sitting in traffic on I-5 and I—405. I’m rich a f*ck for someone of my stature though.
This is no way to go through life kid. You have no dating life, either. Conclusion, you have no life.
I call BS on this. You lived 20-ish miles away in South San Jose, so Almaden? Santa Teresa? Regardless, it doesn't take 2.5 hours to get to Palo Alto from there at 6am. If you said it happened once or twice, I'd believe you. But if you really left at 6am you'd get there in 45-60 minutes tops.
Get a new job wrote:
Got a job at Stanford while living in South San Jose. It took me 2.5 hours leaving at 6 am to go the 20+ miles to get there.
Tried Cal Tran, 101, 280, 85, El Camino, riding my bike. Nothing was better than the other.
I quit and got another job a couple months later. Don’t waste your life in a car no matter how good the job.
Rich is relative. My commute to work on a bad day is maybe 5 minutes, and that’s on my bike. Having all the money in the world and spending your life sitting on your ass in a car (or van) just isn’t worth it.
I live in Honolulu and work every day either in Kona (Big Island) or Maui. Sometimes I mix it up a little and take a small commuter plane—the flight takes a little longer, but the security is nil, so overall it saves around 30 or 45 minutes. Usually I’m on a full size plane and even with Fast Check (and a little living dangerously), my total commute can be over 3 hours in the morning. I have a whole lot of frequent flyer miles and I’m usually upgraded to first class so I take advantage of the free booze and don’t count the flight home as commuting.
exaggerating. wrote:
I call BS on this. You lived 20-ish miles away in South San Jose, so Almaden? Santa Teresa? Regardless, it doesn't take 2.5 hours to get to Palo Alto from there at 6am. If you said it happened once or twice, I'd believe you. But if you really left at 6am you'd get there in 45-60 minutes tops.
Get a new job wrote:
Got a job at Stanford while living in South San Jose. It took me 2.5 hours leaving at 6 am to go the 20+ miles to get there.
Tried Cal Tran, 101, 280, 85, El Camino, riding my bike. Nothing was better than the other.
I quit and got another job a couple months later. Don’t waste your life in a car no matter how good the job.
Just get an e-bike and you can do the 20 miles in 75 min probably. There, cut your commute in half.
My commute is bad, but awesome wrote:
What?
I leave at 5 a.m., and drive 30 minutes to a train station. I try and get there with minutes to spare, but need to prepare for traffic slowdowns, so typically stand on the platform for 10-15 minutes. The train ride takes me 55 minutes.
From there, I jump on a bike and ride 13 miles to my job. I do this in just under an hour.
I do the reverse getting home, between 7:50 and 8:10 on a good night.
You're a beast!!! My commute takes 13 minutes. But I bought a house fairly close to my work on purpose so I'd have an easy
commute.
My commute is bad, but awesome wrote:
What?
I leave at 5 a.m., and drive 30 minutes to a train station. I try and get there with minutes to spare, but need to prepare for traffic slowdowns, so typically stand on the platform for 10-15 minutes. The train ride takes me 55 minutes.
From there, I jump on a bike and ride 13 miles to my job. I do this in just under an hour.
I do the reverse getting home, between 7:50 and 8:10 on a good night.
Do you even run anymore?
"Working" at home is the way to go and by working I mean bumming off your parent's in their basement. Sure, I might not have a job or money. But at least I'm free to do what I want.