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Originally Posted by Emily Fox Seaton
What bothers me the most is the time suck. I don't mind working if I am getting someplace. I don't mind working if it makes sense. But just like school... work is warehousing me. I have to sit there for 8 hours though it could be done in four... and then I have a needlessly long commute because they won't let me come and go at any other time than 9 to 5. I actually do have a job where I can come and go on a flex schedule but I Have to be there every day from 9 am to 4 pm. So that doesn't really help on the commute.
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So true! At my current job, I had to commute to the office for 3 months, now I telecommute. The worst part of my day was the commute. We had to work 8-5. If I left my house at 6:45, I would get to the office at 7:30, so I had half an hour to kill, which was especially bad when fall came and it was cold and dark. I'd usually go buy a coffee to kill time, so I was spending more money as well. I would have preferred to go in at 7:30 and leave at 4:30, but they said it was not possible. If I left my house even 10-15 minutes later, the subway and buses were much more crowded and there was more traffic, so everything took longer and I risked not making it in by 8.
In all, I spent about 2-2.5 hours a day getting to and from work, depending on my luck with the buses. Like you said, it was a complete time suck of at least 10 hours a week. I was always tired. I'd come home and want to sleep by 8. In my case I wasn't used to the whole commuting thing since I had been lucky to be freelance or work for home for manyl years. I stuck it out because they said I could work from home once I was trained, and those opportunities aren't common here.