a 1.5 hr / 55 mile commute...

Kaz2904

Can you negotiate to go to top band 2 at the least?
I had a feeling you were in the NHS. If you have a horrific night shift, you are at very high risk of killing yourself or someone else on your way home from a night shift.
Having said that, lots of agency nurses do it quite happily.
Would you be able to rent a bed in residences for between night shifts?

gettingready

a 1.5 hr / 55 mile commute...

debrag wrote: »

hours would be 7am - 7:30pm or 7pm - 7:30am

I currently travel 45 mins to 1 hr to travel from SE London/Kent to East London.

debrag wrote: »

Is it doable at least in the short term? It would be a mixture of days and nights and 3-4 shifts a week.

From South East coast to Kent zone 4.

So... you would need to get up around 4:30 am to be out of the house at 5:30 to make it to work for 7 and then getting back home 9 pm?

I currently travel 1.5 hours each way to/from work and absolutely hate it (travel not the job), rush hour, public transport.

No way you can find something closer to home?

keyser666

I commute 2 hours a day some 110 miles each way, easily doable. Lnow people in work that commute from Isle of Wight to Central London daily and worked with people that commute from Paris to london daily

buglawton

Interesting that in some countries e.g. Germany you can claim tax back for car commuting. Here on a long commute you'd be paying a LOT of fuel duty on that long commute with little reward.

http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t274634.html

Tiddlywinks

keyser666 wrote: »

I commute 2 hours a day some 110 miles each way, easily doable. Lnow people in work that commute from Isle of Wight to Central London daily and worked with people that commute from Paris to london daily

BUT.... It's not just the commuting time, it's the fact that the shift itself appears to be 12.5 hours.

rebel1012

I am doing 12 hour shifts with an hour each way.
I do it 4 days in a row then have 4 off. Takes me till the 3rd day off to get my body into a normal state after 4 nights of maybe 6 hours in bed, by time I drop off etc probs only 5.5 hours actual rest.
On top of the 14 hour day, I have to cook and eat, wash shave etc, spend a little time with my kids before they go to sleep. Prepare mine and their lunch for the next day etc.

Im getting out as soon as I can, they keep asking me to do a few nights in my days off but last time I did I barely made it home without crashing....all single carriageways and b class roads

Money_Bunny

Theoretically 1.5 hours each way is easily doable. I did it myself on public transport for 12 years and many people in the area I used to live did this and more all their working lives.

It made me tired, depressed and irritable as well as really resentful of people who didn't commute. I wouldn't dream of doing it again. But at the same time it earned me the money which put me in a comfortable position.

However, in your case I'm not sure it stacks up both in terms of the hours and - at 22K did you say? - I just don't think the cost benefits stack up (you'd be a hostage to petrol prices and car fixing costs).

mchphoto

When I was working for London Underground a lot of people I knew who worked shifts as I did 8 hrs day, or 10 hr night and 12 hrs at weekend regularly came in from Milton Keynes and Southend on sea, Chatham to work at Neasden (one stop before Wembly) and no body really complained, except when the trains messed up, but them it messed every one up, even the locals for me in Zone 3 it took an hour and 10 minutes on average both ways

We were categorized as CAT A as we were doing safety critical work in a control room - we did not have any problems