Whats your daily commute time.......

[Craftypig]

I have a 4 hour round trip to work and back each day.Based on a regular 5 day week, from leaving home at 7:00am, barring any overtime or hold-ups I do not get back home until 20:00pm. If I included that time as part of my work (dead time) I am earning £2.88 ph......How does that compare to other ABer's? Not really looking for answers from you poor sod's that have to stay away from home all week and only see family at weekends, no disrespect mind, just wanting a view from those that don't need to go to such extremes...

[NoMercy]

I had a 4h round trip too but recently changed jobs and now work right over the road.

[DrFilth]

i use to have a workmate that stuck to the speed limits :)

[buildersmate]

That's equivalent to about £37 per day, or £4.70ph, so below the minimum wage. You must therefore be referring to take-home pay?
Sounds very much beyond what the majority of folks will accept, but it always depends on personal circumstances.
When recruiting for tradespeople (not craft apprenticed trades) recently at annual salaries of £18k-£20k, it was hard to find people willing to travel more than 20 miles / 30 minutes to work (one way)

[mccfluff]

take me 25 mins to walk to work, i usually get a lift home so that takes around 10 mins

[tiggerblue10]

Takes me around 15 to 20 mins on the bus in the morning to get there and 25 - 30 mins coming back.

[EDDIE51]

I now work (part time) just 50 yards from my front door.
A few years ago I commuted to London by train , left home 6am got back 6.30 to 7 pm but if there were rail problems it could (and often was ) after 8pm when I got home.

[jake-the-peg]

I have commuted Oxford to Derby in the past about two and a half hours each way!

These days I have a half an hour drive through country lanes - in the summer I might take the MG and put the hood down.

I know it sounds idylic but they've done a bit of building this year and there is now a set of traffic lights I have to wait for sometimes.

It's disgracefull!

[tiggerblue10]

I did at one point walk home from work and that would take me 50 mins. Couldn't do that in the morning though as I wouldn't be fit for work! Lol

[EDDIE51]

In another one of my jobs I used to walk to work across fields and footpaths.
Left home at 4,30am for a 5.45 start ! Coming home I could get a train , but the trains did not start early enought to use them to go to work.

[tonyav]

Morning shift 20 mins approx to get there ( 10 mile drive ) 30 mins approx to get home, and the opposite when on afternoon shift.

[Eve]

About 20-30 minutes by bus but it depends on the traffic. I tend to go in early and miss the rush hour/school run traffic and it's always a lot quieter on the buses. I then either go sit and have a coffee (99p bargain from Pret) or go straight into work but we get flexitime so it all builds into that. About 15 minute walk to work from there.

Usually a little longer coming back with traffic but I have it quite easy. Although I'm on a much reduced job and salary during the recession it's quite a revelation as to working normal hours!

Going to have a longer commute when I start my new job, same journey in but then another bus out so going to be a lot longer. I quite enjoy sitting on the bus with my headphones on though if not too busy.

I've always tried to live quite close to work and in the past have commuted by walking, bus, tram, tube and train at different times.

[nescio]

I travel 50 miles to work, the vast majority of which is up the A1(M) through County Durham.
If I set off by 7.00, I get to work before 8.00.
I usually stay at work until ~5.30, thus avoiding the worst of the traffic on my way home; again, about 1 hour's driving.
I have no intention of moving from this part of North Yorkshire.

[boxtops]

I used to work a 15 minute walk away until they closed the local offices - now I have a 50-minute bus ride each way. Allowing for getting to and from the bus stop, that's about an hour and a quarter each way. It's not a journey I would choose - but I like my job and I don't intend to change it just because of the travel, and as a bonus, some days we can work from home now.

Many years ago when I worked in London, my journey time would be similar to yours, craftypig - I got the 0715 train up and the train back arrived at 1915.

[jno]

used to be abut 50 minutes out, 25 minutes back. (Shift work.) Now none at all. (Retired, yay!)

[Pimpernel]

In the past, I've spent up to 3-4 hours commuting every day (including up to 40 minutes waiting for a shuttle to take me to the nearest train station, I was working in an industrial estates, with lots of drug dealing, mugging and gang raping around, so no way you could just walk to the station). I was working very long hours, so Monday to Friday I would leave home between 6am and 7am and come back between 9:30pm and 10:30pm. On Saturdays, I would leave at 6am and be back at 7pm.
Then I moved to a smaller town and for the first couple of years I was able to walk to work (up to 40 minutes each way; never less than 20 minutes each way).
Then I moved jobs and spent around 40-45 minutes commuting every morning and 45 minutes to 1 hour every evening (because of traffic jams). It was an industrial zone again so there were very few buses, and little flexibility for travelling times.
I moved jobs again and had a 40 minutes to 1-hour commute every morning (20' walk to the railway station, 10' train ride, 10' walk to the office). I would leave at 8am, aiming to make into the office before 9am. In the evening, my commute was longer. I finished work at 5:30pm, but the trains were always delayed so I often I would not make it back home until just before 7pm.
I've moved house and now have a 2-hour commute each day. I leave at 8:10am at the latest in the morning, walk 10' to the station, then wait for a train which is almost always late (up to 30'). I then have a 20-minute ride, and arrive into the office around 9am. In the evening, my train is at 6:07pm (when it is on time!) so again I don't make it home till 6:50pm or so.
The shortest commute I've ever had was a 10-minute walk to the office. However, that job was in a real estate agency, so I spent most of the day travelling around to show flats to prospective buyers!
I'm still jobhunting and I think I might end up travelling 6 hours a day, or even staying in a houseshare Monday to Friday, and coming home only at the weekend... So many people have been made redundant in the area where I live, it's really difficult to find work :(

[ChuckFickens]

Currently, approximately 7minutes.

[Craftypig]

Think my new years resolution will have to be try find a job that is closer to home.......

[RocW]

Two days per week I am out with clients with 20 minutes to an hour commuting time (for which I do not charge directly). The rest of the time I work from home. Commute time c 15 seconds. I like this semi retirement!

[Mosaic]

Before retiring I was doing 30 miles there and back along the M6, Lancashire-Cheshire. It could take 50 minutes to 4 hours each way, depending on traffic and accidents. Seeing so many accidents made it an easy decision to stop doing that journey every day. It also meant I had more cash in my pocket and my car wasn't getting nacked. And I stopped thinking fondly of murdering work colleagues.