Just been to an interview/chat about a job. Job sounds great pay sounds great. Only snag is its an hour each way commute everyday. Would you do an hour each way for the right job?
Baldy91:
Just been to an interview/chat about a job. Job sounds great pay sounds great. Only snag is its an hour each way commute everyday. Would you do an hour each way for the right job?
I did around that for around 20 years of my working life.While adding around another hour each way to that using buses between leaving school and getting my driving licence.
Nope not a chance, that’s at least 10 hrs commuting every week which equates to an extra days work plus on top of that in our industry you get long days at times so if you’re reducing your daily rest it won’t be much of a rest.
Done it for 5 years and if it’s for the right job then it’s worth it. Wouldn’t recommend it some days tho 
10hr shift yes, 12hr shift, no.
In my opinion you want at least 11/12hrs at home between getting back from work and setting off again the next day.
15 minutes is too much for me 
If you’re talking about tramping then a hour each way ain’t too bad in the grand scale. But if you’re talking about a daily basis you’d be off your head.
Work to live… not live to work
Think of your fuel bill too.
Doesn’t matter if you have the most economical car in the world, fuel ain’t going to get any cheaper in our life time anyway…
Nor is the roads going to get better / less congested either.
It would be a no from me too.
Is it day work or semi tramping ?
My commute is 45ave home but 30 to work 38 miles round trip and as I’m a semi tramper and have an allocated truck and access to shower at work I stay in yard when not on night out
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It’s day work it will definitely take an hour to get home with traffic but I reckon 40 mins in the morning with no traffic
Baldy91:
It’s day work it will definitely take an hour to get home with traffic but I reckon 40 mins in the morning with no traffic
Do you really want to be sitting in a hours worth of traffic after a long day driving ?
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no is my answer,most if not all day drivers like a chance to grab a bite to eat and relax in front of the telly or go down the local for a pint,if you do a 12 to 15 hr day you might as well go straight home and go straight to bed,you would have no chance to relax after a hard day
It would have to be serious money for relatively short hours, nothing should be ruled out.
Just a thought, my daughter has to travel serious distances sometimes, at the moment her commute is an hour, no problem with a 9 hour day on site plus she gets her mileage paid, but when more than 2 hours away she often hotels nearby for a couple of nights and commutes the days in between…is there anywhere you could plonk a caravan say and do similar so you only travel every other day.
Bloke i used to work with commuted over an hour each way in his little Citroen C2 1.4 Diesel, used to get circa 70mpg from it at steady 60mph or so, the pay differential between standard east anglia and his wages more than made it worth it.
I don’t think you’ll ever get a concensus of opinion on this one since everyone is looking for something different from their working lives. If it was me I’d maybe be asking myself things like:
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Do you need the extra money from this job vs your other one for a comfortable lifestyle?
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If the commute is via major roads it’ll be a lot easier and more relaxing vs smaller or city roads which are stressful.
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Does the job involve lots of handballing, as you really don’t want that plus an hours commute each way.
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Do you drive a Vauxhall car? If so, sell it and buy a Citroen C5 / DS5 diesel.
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Do you drive anything smaller than a Mondeo or similar? If so, see above.
I’ve done hour or longer commutes for 17 years now in both non-physical and very physical jobs (akin to class 1 and class 2). Class 1 would be fine for an hours commute in my opinion, especially RDC work, but class 2 with an hours commute is what newbies like me do to get on the ladder not what people move into when they’re established which is often the reason the job had a high pay rate.
Not for me, 12 miles which took about 25 minutes for 22 years was far enough, but some local folk travel to London daily (by rail) so I guess that an hour commute would seem small fry to them?
Pete.
Bloke I know used to travel from Dronfield (Sheffield) to Stoke every day 1h30 each way,I get bored driving 4 miles to work each day 
I left my job in Swindon 11 months ago as was fed up driving up there from Gloucester. Usually was about 40 minute drive. What didn’t occur to me was the drive home after my night shift was enough time to chill out before getting to bed. I now work 2 miles from my house and get home still in work mode, not ready for bed so find myself staying up longer than the drive home used to take.
Well I guess it won’t be an hour commute as they havnt got back to me told me they would get back to me by the end of today latest and not heard anything…oh well
I did an hour each way for the last 4 years and no never again. Is the new job a pay increase? You’ve got to factor in your commuting costs and deduct that from your monthly or weekly pay and then work out if it’s actually worth it or not. Also that’s 10 hours a week on top of the job as others have said. Unless it’s the perfect job in every other way then the commute can start to get you down. Trust me, the novelty wears off and just a pain in the arse!
Rowley010:
I did an hour each way for the last 4 years and no never again. Is the new job a pay increase? You’ve got to factor in your commuting costs and deduct that from your monthly or weekly pay and then work out if it’s actually worth it or not. Also that’s 10 hours a week on top of the job as others have said. Unless it’s the perfect job in every other way then the commute can start to get you down. Trust me, the novelty wears off and just a pain in the arse!
Agreed. If you’re going to commute those distances every day, you need a large car with an automatic gearbox and which is quiet and comfortable at speed, and you need to be earning enough extra to pay for the luxury car, the fuel, the insurance, and the 5-6 hours a week of additional commute. It’s uncommon in my experience to be offered this sort of additional compensation to make it all worthwhile.
Is there much driving work available where the OP lives though?