So, what's your commute?

[kipt]

If I go to the office, 80+ miles round trip. If I go to the project site, 100+ miles round trip.

[Nosher]

Now I am on a line 3 mile round trip. When I was relief staff I could be based at any one of four stations across the county which meant anything from 5 minutes to up to an hours travel.

Whilst on shift the furthest I have travelled was 357 miles in one night taking in Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex and thirteen towns. Ipswich, Woodbridge, Saxmundham, Beccles, Stowmarket, Bury St Edmunds, Mildenhall, Soham, Cambridge, Haverhill, Sudbury, Colchester and Felixstowe. Spent the whole night chasing response times and actually only getting to three patients all of whom didn't need an ambulance.

[Orcs]

More to the point, they let me out in the afternoon.

I have been desperately trying to find a way to get them to keep him in for the night and share a room with a 18 stone bodybuilder  to "look after" him 

[SV52]

I used to have a cracker, 400 mile round trip by car, train and helicopter. Once a fortnight; mind you it was to a platform 100 miles east of Aberdeen.

[toxicpixie]

Hey SV52, you might have known/worked with a mate of mine who did the same! Mind, I think his longest "commute" was probably the one to Central Asia somewhere to sit behind a very big fence and some armed teenage guards on a site in the middle of one of the 'Stans...

[Sandinista]

10 years ago I did SW London to Reading and back a 90 mile round trip M25 - M3 - M4 hated it, lasted 6 weeks before going back to a lower paid local job, was not worth the stress. Too many dickheads in cars.

Cheers
Ian

[SV52]

Hey SV52, you might have known/worked with a mate of mine who did the same! Mind, I think his longest "commute" was probably the one to Central Asia somewhere to sit behind a very big fence and some armed teenage guards on a site in the middle of one of the 'Stans...

Unlikely unless he was with the same company or on the same installation as me.  Yeah some guys have got crazy ones, like the fellas working off Newfoundland who 'commuted' from London Heathrow to St. Johns fortnightly!  Never had a desire to work anywhere that ended in 'stan' or 'eria' 

[toxicpixie]

Yeah, I guess it's like saying "hey, my mate works in IT in London, you'll know him!"

Although if you go to the club in Aberdeen you may have crossed paths

As my personal commute is to the extension I don't worry too much about travel time or being sent to do job costing audits in foreign countries

[Aksu]

Hullo,
Around 4 miles. 30 min by bus and a short train hop, or 25 mins by bike. Not bad at all. My worst "commute" was 43 trips between London and Helsinki in one year when leading a design team split between the UK and Finland. Made me hate business trips with a vengeance.
Cheers,
Aksu

[paulr]

Couldn't agree more about business trips.

In a previous role I ended up repeatedly commuting to Auckland for several days at a time to provide training. You know you have been staying at a hotel too much when the waitress in the restaurant comes to your table and says, "Hi Paul, what would you this evening" without bothering to hand you a menu

[pierre the shy]

In a previous role in the late 80's I "commuted" between Wellington and Auckland quite a few times on the RNZAF's SATS service.

They used C130 Hercules and Andovers with parachute bench seats mainly.

Rather than being given a headset you were handed a pair of ear defenders and the in-flight catering was a strong brown paper bag with a apple and a sammie of some sort. The bag could be used for other purposes if things got rough (but I was never called on to use it that way ).

Every flight was a bit of an adventure till eventually they bought a couple of 2nd hand Boeing 757 airliners then it was just another commercial flight. 

[Last Hussar]

I used to commute Aylesbury to Hitchin - thats about 36 miles.  Quickest I ever did it was 54 minutes.

[KTravlos]

Wlak 15 minute to metrobus stop. Take metorbus for 6 minutes, walk 5 minutes to shuttle stop. Take shuttle for 30-40 minutes depending on traffic.