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According to my calculations, you make $6.67/hour
if you count the 4 hours you spend commuting.
That is, if you had a job that only took you 5 minutes to get
to and paid you $6.67/hour and you worked for the 12 hours/day
that you already work, you would make the same $80/day,
but wouldn't have that train fare to pay.
Sucks for sure. But I'd take $10 as an accounting intern over working at a Wendy's I can walk to for $7, or $7.5 at a current job where I grade crap all day that's 5 minutes from my house.
Today, last day of the week since it's Christmas week, one of the accounting leadership took us staff out to Whole Foods with her husband, food was on them, we left work early, and we still get paid as if we didn't. Work is a breeze, at most, I'm utilized 33% of the time (phew, compared to 95% at Wendy's and tutoring place), so there is lots of studying/goofing/etc time. The joys of working for the guvmint
... $10 as an accounting intern over
working at a Wendy's ...
That's a qualitative comparison.
The "winner" depends on individual preference.
I post this stuff because so often I see people willing to drive an extra half-hour
one-way for a small bump in pay for a not better job -- just a bigger paycheck.
You just can't compare pay-rate-to-pay-rate. You have to factor in
your cost to commute. Most people are clueless as to how to do this.
Sorta off-topic, but related:
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The receptionist at work lives paycheck-to-paycheck. Every time
her car needs a repair, it's a financial crisis. Yet, every day, she
gets in her car and drives to get lunch - rather than pack one.
Ignoring the cost of eating lunch out, just getting in her car, starting
it, and driving to obtain the lunch ( stop, start the car, return ) adds
a couple of bucks to the cost of that $7-8 lunch. It's madness.
Her car needs repairs frequently because she thinks nothing
of using it to make small trips rather than combine them.
I go 40 miles one way, but it's essentially all in 5th gear, I can take the freeway or I can and usually do take an interesting backroad with a lot of curves. So commute time is quality time, mostly.
It isn't work to drive the Scirocco, the M3, or a bike on that back road.
Most people will accept up to a 45 minute commute, which is close to what I have.
I had a 1.5 hour commute in the Idaho desert back in the day, even though it was on a bus, and the bus was cheap or free, that 3 hours added to an 8 or more hour work day got old.
Under the conditions you say, I'd go up to an hour each way. Otherwise, my max is 45 minutes (which it seems is about the commute of almost every job I've had..... )
Under the conditions you say, I'd go up to an hour each way. Otherwise, my max is 45 minutes (which it seems is about the commute of almost every job I've had..... )
I'd commute an hour. Two additional hours a day isn't terrible. Anything higher though, it'd have to be mere minutes in difference. A two hour train ride is too much. I could probably get a job in Portland and take the Amtrak there faster than Everett. (From Tacoma)
My commute is 2 minutes by car. It's nice but is wasteful...I should probably suck it up and walk (12 minutes that way) but it's cold out. I'm thinking I should get a bike but strangely, my workplace has no bike racks. Eh.
The last two jobs I worked had a commute time of 15-20 minutes and that was fine. I enjoy being employed, and with the job situation as it is these days, I would commute as far as I had to.
I'd commute an hour. Two additional hours a day isn't terrible. Anything higher though, it'd have to be mere minutes in difference. A two hour train ride is too much. I could probably get a job in Portland and take the Amtrak there faster than Everett. (From Tacoma)
It's important to look at what two additional hours really is. Even though it is 2/24s of a day, more practically it is about 2/4s or one half of your disposable free time. Less time for City Data posting for example.
Usually around 30 minutes or so which includes stopping at the convenience store for the newspaper.
How long would I accept? Don't know, it would depend on the job I guess. I had the possibility a couple years ago to work on Capitol Hill (things didn't work out) and that would have meant much longer days at work and probably an hour to an hour and half each way.
I've been known to drive 2 or 3 hours to go goose hunting.
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