It's doable, certainly, but I'd not do a commute that long myself. I know plenty of people who travel miles to work, including someone who makes a journey from York to our office every day, which must take him about two and a half hours each way (at least).
It does depend on how much you love what you're doing. My own commute is around half an hour, and to be honest, I'd be loathe to make it any longer, but then my job is shite anyway.
Before you commit to that, make sure you'd actually be able to sit on a regular basis, and didn't end up wedged in like a sardine. Nothing beats that for daily misery.
Try taking the train you'd get to work on a typical day (i.e. after term starts again in a week or two), and note how busy it is. Could you hack that every day?
I usually get a seat most of the time in the morning and all the time in the evening, but standing is no big deal on a twenty minute journey. One one that's over an hour and a half, it becomes a huge issue.
In my experience, that's firmly in the "do-able but one's got to either really like something about the job not think of it as long term" zone. The commute will magnify any issues you find.
On the other hand, if you like the job and, as per kaiserdad's suggestion use public transport, you may be able to make use of the travel time to write, or even just catch up on your reading pile.
The role appears to be doing what I'm doing now, for a more web-based software company. Pay is good (as good as, if not slightly better than I'm on now).
Would have to factor in travel costs, but given that I'm already looking at fairly substantial income cuts on other roles, it's certainly doable.
Entirely possible they may have some working from home policy too, which would help.
Though this is all a little premature as I've only just submitted my (carefully tailored) CV.
I used to commute from Derby to Nottingham by bus everyday and the traffic going into Nottingham was possibly worse than that going into Leeds in a morning (and this was nearly 20 years ago). So if you do get it I'd avoid going by car.
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Date: 2009-08-25 08:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 08:44 am (UTC)ta.
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:01 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:18 am (UTC)It does depend on how much you love what you're doing. My own commute is around half an hour, and to be honest, I'd be loathe to make it any longer, but then my job is shite anyway.
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:35 am (UTC)Quite happy to sit on a train for longer, get some reading/work done.
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 09:40 am (UTC)*makes notes*
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:47 am (UTC)I usually get a seat most of the time in the morning and all the time in the evening, but standing is no big deal on a twenty minute journey. One one that's over an hour and a half, it becomes a huge issue.
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Date: 2009-08-25 08:49 am (UTC)On the other hand, if you like the job and, as per
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:06 am (UTC)Would have to factor in travel costs, but given that I'm already looking at fairly substantial income cuts on other roles, it's certainly doable.
Entirely possible they may have some working from home policy too, which would help.
Though this is all a little premature as I've only just submitted my (carefully tailored) CV.
:-)
Hmm. Wonder who I know near Nottingham...
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Date: 2009-08-25 09:17 am (UTC)But work far far away
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Date: 2009-08-25 11:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-25 03:20 pm (UTC):-)
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Date: 2009-08-25 08:18 pm (UTC)I was filling full tanks twice a week when it was £1.20 per litre!
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Date: 2009-08-25 08:23 pm (UTC)It's all whether I can handle the commute though. Be nice to have a crashspace a couple of nights a week somewhere.
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