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Instead of being rude, your response should have been something like "45 minutes is not a long commute by Long Island standards. Since you do not currently have a job, I suggest that you take this job, since jobs are hard to find. If you absolutely cannot tolerate the commute, then once you have some work experience and some money, try to either move closer to the job, or try to find a better job that is closer to your home and/or higher paying". Why couldn't you give a response like that?
Instead of being rude, your response should have been something like "45 minutes is not a long commute by Long Island standards. Since you do not currently have a job, I suggest that you take this job, since jobs are hard to find. If you absolutely cannot tolerate the commute, then once you have some work experience and some money, try to either move closer to the job, or try to find a better job that is closer to your home and/or higher paying". Why couldn't you give a response like that?
My impression is that the OP does have work experience and has been unemployed for a while and decided to take this job *despite* the "entry level pay. So my advice was to get a local "entry level pay" job instead.
Well I work at the extreme end of Manhattan - uptown or downtown you pick. Roughly an hour on the train on a good day (seldom. Delays up the wahzoo today), a 45 min walk from home to the train and then a walk to work from Penn. About 3 hours door to door.
I love it though. It's free and it's exercise so while everyone is getting old & fat, I'm just getting old
If you want to work 10 minutes from home you have to choose a job that exists in suburban neighborhoods (dental hygienist, manicurist, hair cutter, medical assistant, bookkeeping, financial advisor, Starbucks barrista, fast food manager, waiter, bank teller). Plenty of entry level jobs in the suburbs, pick one. Or you could move next to an office park or to a small city.
Just for the record dental hygienists make $40 per hour here on LI and more in the city. That's no entry level job.
Well I work at the extreme end of Manhattan - uptown or downtown you pick. Roughly an hour on the train on a good day (seldom. Delays up the wahzoo today), a 45 min walk from home to the train and then a walk to work from Penn. About 3 hours door to door.
I love it though. It's free and it's exercise so while everyone is getting old & fat, I'm just getting old
Well I work at the extreme end of Manhattan - uptown or downtown you pick. Roughly an hour on the train on a good day (seldom. Delays up the wahzoo today), a 45 min walk from home to the train and then a walk to work from Penn. About 3 hours door to door.
I love it though. It's free and it's exercise so while everyone is getting old & fat, I'm just getting old
So in other words, your life is basically working, commuting, and sleeping. You say your commute is 3 hours door to door; so you spend 6 hours a day commuting. The consensus here is that jobs in NYC require more than 8 hours a day. In my field, the minimum hours in NYC is 7 AM to 5 PM, which is 10 hours (including lunch). So that means you spent 16 hours a day commuting and working. That leaves 8 hours total for sleep, plus anything else that you need to do (breakfast, dinner, showers, getting changed, household chores, etc). That is exactly why I don't want to work in NYC! Thank you for proving my point.
(Even if you have a job that only requires 8 hours per day, that still is only 1 more hour per day, assuming you still have a 1 hour lunch break).
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So in other words, your life is basically working, commuting, and sleeping. You say your commute is 3 hours door to door; so you spend 6 hours a day commuting. The consensus here is that jobs in NYC require more than 8 hours a day. In my field, the minimum hours in NYC is 7 AM to 5 PM, which is 10 hours (including lunch). So that means you spent 16 hours a day commuting and working. That leaves 8 hours total for sleep, plus anything else that you need to do (breakfast, dinner, showers, getting changed, household chores, etc). That is exactly why I don't want to work in NYC! Thank you for proving my point.
(Even if you have a job that only requires 8 hours per day, that still is only 1 more hour per day, assuming you still have a 1 hour lunch break).
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