A walk downstairs.

Quote from: d_Guy on 09 June 2016, 03:32:56 AM
Define work.

Reminds me of the celebrated conversation outside a government building in Prague in the old days:

Tourist:  How many people actually work here?
Czech:    About half.

6 mile bike ride each way that takes about 20 minutes, depending upon traffic lights.

Mine's rather similar to Techno's, but less rural.

Get woken by the mithery dog, stumble down to let him out for a wee before he goes in the house, then stumble out in my dressing gown and jim jams to let the chickens out and put their feed/water in, then back inside and cup of tea for Ms. Pixie and getting dressed, then back down to the extension and my laughingly described as a "work" bench to start painting talking to customers on the phone!

Actual time from waking to working is probably twenty mins still, which is a bit rubbish on a 20ft commute

520 feet, to the main gate, my office is just past that, so 580 feet (measured on google earth)

Before I moved departments the distance from the main gate to my office was 660 feet.  Officially I am at work when I knock on the gate.  

10 km; so about 15 minutes.

Quote from: Last Hussar on 12 June 2016, 08:06:15 PM
520 feet, to the main gate, my office is just past that, so 580 feet (measured on google earth)

Before I moved departments the distance from the main gate to my office was 660 feet.  Officially I am at work when I knock on the gate.  

They let you in

For me about 18km, about 20mins if I set off before 7am...

Quote from: paulr on 13 June 2016, 12:32:54 AM
They let you in

Reminds me of the South African joke, just before the first open election:

F. W. de Klerk, five minutes after coming out of a coma in hospital: What do you mean, you let him out!?

Quote from: paulr on 13 June 2016, 12:32:54 AM
They let you in

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

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

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.

Quote from: Last Hussar on 13 June 2016, 11:40:25 PM
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 

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.

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...

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

Quote from: toxicpixie on 14 June 2016, 08:47:00 AM
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' 

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

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

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