How long is your commute?

motorguy

pompeyrich wrote: »

Can I ask what all these "work from home" jobs entail, I have always worked in a maintenance role in factories, which require me to be there to diagnose and rectify faults. Some of the higher up staff, claim to be "working from home" but it seems to be weather dependent, either really hot or really icy!

I have been contacted at home but only to offer assistance to a colleague who is onsite at the time. I guess in this internet age there are some jobs that don't require an actual presence in the office but would be interested in what type of work it involves. Thanks.

Back on topic i travel 27 miles to work and can do it in 30 mins door to door for the 5:40 start but around 45 mins back at 2 p.m.

In previous roles i have diagnosed and resolved problems on servers from home by remoting in from my laptop. Actually that was a number of years ago now and it would have been for Abbey National bank, looking after their big database servers, etc.

My most recent role where i worked from home was data migration, reconciliation and cleansing work from one system to another. My manager was mainland UK (never met him), the rest of the team were in Poland, and we dealt with people in the US and Japan.

Just as handy for me to do all that from home via remote connections and teleconferencing rather than commute. :beer:

tiger_eyes

HappyMJ wrote: »

My commute is 5 seconds from the bedroom to the home office.

It's quite a tiring commute...on a really cold morning sometimes I might just stay in bed and work from there.

It is indeed an epic trek. I work from my sofa in the living room.

pompeyrich wrote: »

Can I ask what all these "work from home" jobs entail, I have always worked in a maintenance role in factories, which require me to be there to diagnose and rectify faults. Some of the higher up staff, claim to be "working from home" but it seems to be weather dependent, either really hot or really icy!

I have been contacted at home but only to offer assistance to a colleague who is onsite at the time. I guess in this internet age there are some jobs that don't require an actual presence in the office but would be interested in what type of work it involves. Thanks.

I run a business from my laptop. My clients are all overseas, so everything is handled via email. There is no site, so no risk of being called in.

27col

Many years ago when I was an Electrical Officer on a Cunard liner, my commute was 20seconds in the lift down from my cabin to the engine room.

SLZ

My old commute was a 10 minute walk, if that, I was lucky but now I lost that job I'm looking at a commute of 20 minutes by train plus 5 minute bus ride either side which isn't too bad but not what I'm used to.

bargainbetty

I live in Zone 6 of the commuter belt and work in the City, so mine is 50-60 minutes door-to-door each way. I could get a job closer to home, but the salary drop would be ridiculous compared to a London wage. That assumes trains/buses etc are on time at each end.


I'm just used to it. I read, listen to music, meditate or do online shopping, so the time is utilised for me.


I've refused jobs that are over 1.5 hours away, as three hours a day would be too much, and I won't even apply for a job that requires me to take the London Underground, but 'ten minutes from London Bridge' covers a lot of offices, thankfully!