How long does it take you to go to work or school?

[Angelspit]

I live in a suburb and spend a little more than one hour in the bus in the morning (and the same amount of time on my way back obviously). I've heard horror stories of 2.5+ hour commute times, but I hope it's not your case.

(just to avoid mixups, the figures in the poll are for a one-way trip)

And while you're there, what do you do while you're in the bus/train/car?

[Asheera]

I tend not to go to very far working places... I guess it's around 10 - 30 minutes max for me


2-3 hours? Geez...

[Angelspit]

I read something a while ago about a Silicon Valley employee with long working hours who would sleep in his car during the week and drive home during the week-ends only. Going home daily was not an option, and houses near his workplace were too expensive.

[Pol]

Still more than half of hour. And still working on that...

[theLuckyDragon]

20 minutes by bus, 30 if there's traffic in town. I usually look out the window.

[blacktrance]

20-25 minutes to walk to school. 5 or so minutes to drive there.

[Ethric]

2-3 minute walk

[Asheera]

Lucky you

[Pol]

2-3 minute walk

Lucky you.

That explains a lot, Ethric.

[Ethric]

Well I do live in a rather small and uninteresting place atm, but at least there's that advantage to it; everything (of what there is) is within short distance.

[Corribus]

I drive 25-45 minutes (depending on traffic), then walk another 20-25... which really sucks when it's 97 and humid out like today.

I get to repeat it going home, also.

[Jolly Joker]

I'm self-employed; my home is my office.
My wife is self-employed as well. However, she's currently been hired by a company that is a bit away. If traffic is low she needs 45 minutes. If not - and mostly it's not because roads are under heavy construction, so there are many jams on the highway, the'll need 75-90 minutes.
I'm not going to vote here, but you can add 1 in the up to 10 minutes column and one in the up to 90 minutes column.

[ThunderTitan]

Too long...


@JJ

That explains a lot...

[Borsuc]

I'm self-employed; my home is my office.

Cool!!

[ThunderTitan]

Sure... until the IRS starts tearing up your toilet looking for evidence.

[Asheera]

Sure... until the IRS starts tearing up your toilet looking for evidence.

That's the responsibility of being the boss

[Infiltrator]

Takes me like 3 minutes with the car.

[ThunderTitan]

Takes me like 3 minutes with the car.

Move where i am... those 3 minutes would be turned into 30 easy...

[BoardGuest808888]

If I walk, might be around 10 minutes (more or less depending on my mood ) from where I currently live.

If driving, will take more time to warm up the car than actually going to my workplace.

[Zamolxis]

Still more than half of hour. And still working on that...

I read that and pictured Pol driving every day more and more dangerous, trying to break his own record of getting to work in the shortest way possible...

20 minutes by bus, 30 if there's traffic in town. I usually look out the window.

LOL. Yeah, what else can you do in a crowdy Romanian bus? It's deffinetly not the place to read a book or sth. But IIRC you live in Cluj, and I can imagine you have at least sth to look at. I cross half of Brussels on my way to work, but the views are so boring (not to mention that half of the trip is underground).

2-3 minute walk

Lucky b******! :p

Since I went to highschool at 15, I never had a school or job which was closer than 30-40 mins from my place. The traffic in Brussels is pretty busy in rush hours (when I go to/return from work), so it takes at least 30 minutes to get to work by either car or public transport (and it's not like I live in the suburbs or sth). So I usually pick the public transport, in order to save gas/parking money, and trying to be ecological.

What do I do in the tram? If I'm lucky to get a seat, I sometimes read (usually newspaper, rarely a book). Otherwise... I more kinda gaze outside, rather than really "look", because there's not much to see as mentioned above. So if I'm not reading, I guess I fill most of the time with "thinking" (about job, family, week-end plans, games, politics... whatever )