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What's the longest commute to a job you've ever had?

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Robcatt24

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The longest I've drove to a job was 60 miles, 4 days a week.

Got a job offer coming that's going to be 67 miles, work 4 days one week and 3 the next. Hope to have a carpool partner.

Knew a guy years ago who drove 4 days a week from Pineville to Berea.
 
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WildcatfaninOhio

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Mine was about 25 miles each way, from Latonia (a southern neighborhood of Covington Ky) to Sharonville (a northern neighborhood of Cincinnati). 25 miles each way doesn’t sound too bad until you factor rush hour traffic on I-75 and crossing the Brent Spence bridge. On a good day that was an hour. Most days an hour and 15 minutes.
 
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IdaCat

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Probably about 60 miles. But I had a 10 mile commute when I lived in San Diego that would sometimes take close to an hour in heavy traffic.
 
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Phil McKracken

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I’m doing about 18 miles one-way, 5 days per week in Nashville. You do the math on that with all the idiots that have moved here.
 
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IdaCat

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I forgot, when I lived in Belgium I had about an hour and a half commute from Oostende to Oudenaarde. If you really want to relax the rules, I used to have to regularly fly from San Diego to Washington DC, 2685 miles.
 
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J_Dee

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Excluding a job that I only had for a week many years ago, the longest job commute I've ever had is around six miles each way.

Long ago I worked with a guy in Somerset who commuted to work five days a week from Scott County, Tennessee, about an hour south of Pulaski on 27. Before Somerset sold alcohol, I used to make a few beer runs a year to Scott County, to Oneida. It's an easy drive most of the time, especially at night, but I couldn't do it five days a week.
 
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420grover

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I used to travel from Hoptown to either Murray, Central City, Russellville, or Springfield, Tn every day. But I had a company truck and gas card plus got paid from the time i left home until I got back.
 
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anon_q409idbs5m40a

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Not me but I worked with a guy in the early '80's in Winchester, Kentucky. He lived in Clarksville, Indiana and was making the commute daily. I recall him saying that it was about two hours on a good day. Also worked with a guy at Fort Hood that was trying to make an ridiculous commute from Fort Worth, It's about a four hour drive from Fort Worth to Fort Hood and he said that he left his house around 3:30 in the morning, got to Fort Hood at 7:30, left around 4:00 and got home about 8:30, just in enough time to eat and go to bed. The second week he was there our Facilities Manager sent him to inspect an armory in Huntsville, Texas, which was another four hours. Therefore, he drove four hours from Fort Worth, four more hours to Huntsville, four hours back to Fort Hood, then four hours to Fort Worth. Quit after that and we never saw him again.
 
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AustinTXCat

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62 miles each way between our place here in Austin and Fort Hood for 2.5 years minus numerous deployments. So happy I retired.
 
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CB3UK

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My time is too valuable to me. I just cant imagine taking 2-3 hrs total each day to carve out of what is my free time and having to spend it in traffic or interstate commuting. I understand folks have to do what they have to do, but stuff like this is always a big consideration to me. Work life balance is important. I work to live, not live to work.
 
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ukalum1988

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I had a 55 mile commute for about a year and a half back in the 90s. Thankfully didn’t have kids at the time.

I don’t want to live next door to work, but long commutes suck. My current drive is 14 miles (20 minutes).
 
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ukalum1988

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Catscratch81 said:
Not me but I worked with a guy in the early '80's in Winchester, Kentucky. He lived in Clarksville, Indiana and was making the commute daily. I recall him saying that it was about two hours on a good day. Also worked with a guy at Fort Hood that was trying to make an ridiculous commute from Fort Worth, It's about a four hour drive from Fort Worth to Fort Hood and he said that he left his house around 3:30 in the morning, got to Fort Hood at 7:30, left around 4:00 and got home about 8:30, just in enough time to eat and go to bed. The second week he was there our Facilities Manager sent him to inspect an armory in Huntsville, Texas, which was another four hours. Therefore, he drove four hours from Fort Worth, four more hours to Huntsville, four hours back to Fort Hood, then four hours to Fort Worth. Quit after that and we never saw him again.
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I guess your Ft Worth guy wasn’t able to relocate. A guy I go to church lived outside of Evansville and worked at the Crane Naval facility south of Bloomington. He had a place on the base and stayed there three nights a week. He would come home on Fridays after work, and go back up early Monday mornings. He did that for years but he wasn’t married and didn’t have a family to worry about.
 
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wildcatwelder_rivals

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96 miles round trip. Did that for 3 months before I moved into town, now it's "only" 62 round trip. Mornings aren't bad, but the afternoon drive sucks.
 
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ukalum1988 said:
I guess your Ft Worth guy wasn’t able to relocate. A guy I go to church lived outside of Evansville and worked at the Crane Naval facility south of Bloomington. He had a place on the base and stayed there three nights a week. He would come home on Fridays after work, and go back up early Monday mornings. He did that for years but he wasn’t married and didn’t have a family to worry about.
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I think this guy was trying to hold out for about a year since he was close to retirement. He had a house in Fort Worth and his wife had a decent job up there so I guess that's why he was trying to do the commute. Interesting you should mention Crane Naval Weapons Installation, or that's what it used to be called. I spent an entire day up there in February of 1984 probing for an asbestos sewer line. Cold, snowing and just plain miserable not to mention being surrounded by IU fans. I was using one of those old problems that looked like a pogo stick and one had to jam it into the ground as far as it would go to find the line. Well, we found it and raw sewage came up like an oil geyser. That just topped off one of the most miserable days in my working career.
 
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Elbridge

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420grover said:
I used to travel from Hoptown to either Murray, Central City, Russellville, or Springfield, Tn every day. But I had a company truck and gas card plus got paid from the time i left home until I got back.
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420 how old are you and did you go to County or Hoptown?
 
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GGCAT

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"Commuted" to our corporate office in Seattle from Louisville up to 3 weeks a month for about a year.

Finally asked me to move out there, and I love me some Pacific Northwest, but couldnt leave the Bluegrass.
 
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Tapemaster8

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Feb 9, 2003
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40 miles each way for 32 years and 5 months, 6 days a week except for when we went to 12 hour shifts. Then it was 5 twelves one week and 2 twelves the next week that was only for a couple of years. Production went way down.
 
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TurnipDaBeet

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jtrue28

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tapemaster8 said:
40 miles each way for 32 years and 5 months, 6 days a week except for when we went to 12 hour shifts. Then it was 5 twelves one week and 2 twelves the next week that was only for a couple of years. Production went way down.
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Coal mining?
 
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berniecarbo

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Apr 29, 2020
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Feel sorry for you guys. I live in a woods on my business property. Maybe 300 yards round trip.
 
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LineSkiCat14

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When I was a teenager I sometimes did double shifts that was a half hour drive there.. right now its about 25 min.. 35-40 if it's bad traffic.. but i also only go in 4 days a week.. and it'll be 2 days a week (or less) whenever we go back.

Idk how people can do hour long commutes or greater. That's 2+ hours. When you factor in that you sleep for 8 and work for 8.. that means your commute takes up 25% of your free time.

Thankful I live in a medium sized market.
 
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Glenn's Take

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LineSkiCat14 said:
When I was a teenager I sometimes did double shifts that was a half hour drive there.. right now its about 25 min.. 35-40 if it's bad traffic.. but i also only go in 4 days a week.. and it'll be 2 days a week (or less) whenever we go back.

Idk how people can do hour long commutes or greater. That's 2+ hours. When you factor in that you sleep for 8 and work for 8.. that means your commute takes up 25% of your free time.

Thankful I live in a medium sized market.
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Sleep for 8 hours. I wish.
 
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