I wish I could do that. I spend at least 1.5 hours on the commute to work and 1.5 on the trip home. When I got the job there was plenty of parking and not a lot of traffic. Now it is just impossible to park or commute. I swear they make it that way to punish us workers on purpose.

I was thinking today of a book (and it is also a movie) called "the house of mirth" by Edith Wharton. This book is about a woman at the turn of the 20th century. Women could either get married and be taken care of or, they could work, but it probably wasn't great work. The main character just can't bring herself to marry and ends up working. Working hard jobs like laundry and begging for those... and seeing that there is no way out of this (because she now is too old to marry) she kills herself.

Not that I am considering killing myself because at least I will get a retirement but... nice to see others realized what a life of working meant.