Who has the longest commute?

[Steve Viegas]

What is your commute?

I have been going to school for the last two years to get a Master of Education degree. Now, I am looking for a teaching gig. I have been in contact with a number of school district HR departments around my area and they let me know that jobs are hard to come by right now. Teachers are not changing jobs like they have in the past.

I have been offered a job 48 miles from my home. It is reverse commute. In reality, it would be the same amount of windshield time if it was a 10 mile commute in the other direction. Living in San Jose, CA, there should be a lot of jobs locally, but I am not sure that is the case right now.

Hmmm...maybe an excuse to buy a new ride?

[Tobra]

I think probably the guys working on the space station.

Paid off car with poor fuel economy is cheaper than a car with a payment and good fuel economy, a lot of the time.

[Embraer]

My buddy flew for the same airline I worked for. When I moved to California for my govt job, he figured he'd like to live there too. So he became my roommate, but was still Indy-based. ...so he'd FedEx (jumpseat) himself back to Indy every week for work.

[Scott Douglas]

Another thing you might want to consider is, how many different ways are there to get to the new job, ie alternate routes.
When I was working my commute was 31 miles one way. No real viable alternates either. I once spent upwards of 4 hours getting home in a rain storm that had flooded the freeway to the point of shut down. Surface streets sucked just as bad.
Good luck, I'm glad I'm out of that rat race.

[BK911]

35 miles 50 minutes each way.
But all tn valley back roads.
Never any traffic and only 3 lights each way.
Plus several different routes through different valleys and passes.

[Zeke]

There are a couple of commercial pilots on here that I know and they drive a good distance to get to the airport. One lives in Paso Robles and I'm not sure where he flies out of but it ain't close by.

But some poeple my wife worked with at the port where coming in from Big Bear, Riverside, Corona, etc.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

The bedroom to the lanai where I’ve got my computer set up is pretty brutal.

Having to work from home ain’t all bad!

[JavaBrewer]

These days a stroll down the hall Prior to CV my commute was 22 miles each way, morning traffic was an easy 30 minutes even between 7-9 AM, but afternoons could range from 30-90 minutes based on stupidity of those who left before me.

[Tidybuoy]

26 miles takes me 30 min avg. 99% highway.

My former commute was 6 miles and it too took me 30 min. 100% city

[Steve Viegas]

I would be driving from San Jose to Hollister. I think my only option 101. It really isn't a bad drive going reverse commute.

Regarding finances, I would get about 15 miles to the gallon. ~3 gallons down, 3 back, 20 days a month, $400 per month in gas at ~$3/gallon. $4K/year give or take. I could pick up a used Chevy Bolt for less than $20K, a BMW i3 for $12K. Either of those numbers does buy a lot of gas though.

My longest commute until now was along the bay area peninsula. It wasn't too bad unless it was baseball season. That would turn my 30 minute commute into a 2 hour commute.

[Alan A]

2 hours each way door to door.
Suburbs -> NYC

Of course I’m a fraud for saying that - haven’t been in in 3 months - but did the 12 years before that.

[Scott Douglas]

Yeah, I was gonna say, living in SJ you're either heading east or south.
My brother lives in San Martin. Morgan Hill to Gilroy can get jammed both ways at times I believe.

[vash]

Fir 10-years I drove from Concord to Half Moon Bay. It wasn’t bad at first, but traffic got steadily worse. 1.5 to get there. 2.5 back. The Bay Bridge was a nightmare.

Sucked my soul dry. What’s odd, I got used to it. And that is NOT a good thing. Nobody should feel that is the norm.

My wife got a job and forced us to move. My new commute is 7 minutes. 5 on my motorcycle. 40 on my bicycle. My quality of life is greatly improved. You can’t muse me do a commute like that ever again. Thankfully I work my ass off to stay valuable to my office.

[masraum]

Current commute is about 3 miles and 7 mins, before that most of them have been around 22-25, but I did have 35-37 once for 6 months. I've worked with guys that commuted 50-60 miles here in Houston, but it only took them about an hour. I work with folks in the NY/NJ area that commute much farther, but that's mostly on a train of some sort.

I didn't mind 22-25 miles too much when the commute was mostly 25-35 mins. But any time I've ever had to commute in bad traffic, it's maddening and soul-sucking.

I've spent many weeks working in San Jose in the past for/at the Cisco campus (almost 20 years ago). Commuting there sucks, but it was bearable because it was short term, you had nothing to do in the evenings other than whatever you wanted and everything was on the company dime.

[Scott Douglas]

I once figured out I'd spent a solid year in the car just commuting. 24/7x52 weeks time, just sitting driving to/from work.
And that was in ONE car only and accounted for about 1/3 of my career doing that drive.
I'll never get that TIME back.

[Steve Viegas]

I worked in the tech industry for 20+ years. I drove to Cisco a lot during that time
I think HMB is hard to get to no matter what. My wife was from San Mateo, right off 92, and that was still challenging.
I am not sure how great an idea this is, San Jose to Hollister.
Teaching it is my third, and likely final career. I got into it for my kids. I needed to be around, and I thought getting on their schedule would help. Spending two hours on the road each day, may not make that a reality, but it seems like a great gig.

[vash]

Originally Posted by Steve Viegas

I worked in the tech industry for 20+ years. I drove to Cisco a lot during that time
I think HMB is hard to get to no matter what. My wife was from San Mateo, right off 92, and that was still challenging.
I am not sure how great an idea this is, San Jose to Hollister.
Teaching it is my third, and likely final career. I got into it for my kids. I needed to be around, and I thought getting on their schedule would help. Spending two hours on the road each day, may not make that a reality, but it seems like a great gig.

I think it’s a GREAT gig! Very noble at the least. Congrats.

Eye of the tiger (with those kids). Best of luck with the decision. One of my coworkers comes from Vallejo to Santa Rosa. He uses HWY 37 which by far is the most heinous stretch of asphalt ever. Two directions of hell.

[Eric Hahl]

Mine is 72 miles each way, 5 times a week.

[Eric Coffey]

Originally Posted by Zeke

There are a couple of commercial pilots on here that I know and they drive a good distance to get to the airport. One lives in Paso Robles and I'm not sure where he flies out of but it ain't close by.

Not sure if any of them on here, but many commercial pilots commute to the airport, then continue that "commute" to their departure hub via plane (as a non-revenue/jump-seat pax), before they even start their first flight of the day.
Some of those commute flights can be several hours, on top of the time it takes to get to the airport.

[Arizona_928]

I'll do contracting in town at the local district.
30ish miles of dirt road one way. When it snows or rains. It goes very slow in 4wd.