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[dakegra]

q. Wakefield - Nottingham. Commutable? Without going mad?

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[kaiserdad.livejournal.com]

1hr 40min journey, hourly through service, Kirkgate 06:21hrs > 08:02hrs

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

d'oh. Forgot about train service. Brilliant. Probably as quick (or thereabouts) as car.

ta.

[martinoh.livejournal.com]

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.

[kaiserdad.livejournal.com]

The train even has Lappy power sockets :-)

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

cor.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

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.

:-)

Hmm. Wonder who I know near Nottingham...

[jugglebug.livejournal.com]

I am near ish.. at home...
But work far far away

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

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.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

takes me nearly an hour to get to Leeds most mornings from where we live.

Quite happy to sit on a train for longer, get some reading/work done.

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

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.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

excellent point.

*makes notes*

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

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.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Not without going mad, no...

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I'm already slightly mad anyway though. Must be, working here for so long.

:-)

[tiggsybabes.livejournal.com]

Don't think the train is all that long, we go through it most times when we go Down South.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah...Don't forget the fuel cost impact on the income...

I was filling full tanks twice a week when it was £1.20 per litre!

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

working on the basis that I was willing to take a hefty pay cut to do something else, and this pays same/slightly more, it sort of balances out.

It's all whether I can handle the commute though. Be nice to have a crashspace a couple of nights a week somewhere.

[dilerium.livejournal.com]

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.