Do you like your long commute? - Page 3

My work is 8-5 so I leave at 7 and get home at 6. It's a good deal to me but I can't imagine doing say 7am to 7pm... Leaving at 6am and getting home at 8pm? No thanks! I have a truck so that's fun but it holds a lot which saves me the multiple drives to the gas station. It's about $75 a week in gas which is okay with my budget.

Try 7pm to 7am which meant leaving at 5pm and getting home at 9am. Totally sucked! I stayed with my parents some days but my schedule was often work one off one work one. If I stayed over at my folks there were times that I didn't sleep in my own bed for 14 days straight. Totally not worth it.

I drive 55 mile one way. I work 6a-6p. Getting up at 4a really sucks but u have time to wake up. I do private duty w/ a quad in her home. I love her to death and wouldn't give up the case for anything!

I used to drive 30 min and would put gas in my car every week. I also made $6 more per hour than I was making closer to home. THEN I was offered a job 5 min from my house with a matching wage so I took it. I still work on call at the place that is a 30 min drive (don't wanna close that door). Now I put gas in my car every 2 weeks. Plus at the job I work at now, OT is readily available. At the job that's 30 min away I never got OT once. It just wasn't worth the drive every day. I was missing my family and would struggle to stay awake on the commute home. Plus the roads can get very icy and I didn't want to have to deal with that.

Thankfully I have a workplace that is near my home so the commute is bearable.

I left a job that was about a 7 minute drive for one that's 50 miles (1hr-ish) to get into critical care. It's a long trip, especially being night shift, but it's worth it because I really enjoy my job now

I do 45 minutes with little traffic. It's made me a book on tape addict. My library has tons and I also download. I've listened to things I never would have taken the time to read and sometimes am actually looking forward to the drive to hear more of the story. =)

I am a student, school is 35 miles one way. I plan at working at a hospital a similar distance from home after graduation if I get hired in the city I wish to work.

I am a Maryland student living w/ my parents & drive about 50 mins (on a good day) to my community college. Once I get into a BSN program I will get an apartment within a 10 mile radius of the school so I don't have long commutes anymore. Plus it will most likely be in the Baltimore area so it will be more of a city than where my parents live now. I've already made promises to myself in the future to rent/buy a house near whatever hospital I work at eventually. I hate driving.

When I started nursing school the drive from my rural hometown to school/clinicals was about 1 hour. After 1 semester I moved to the nearest metro area, about an hour from my home and 30 min from school. It made sense, considering I did not know where future semesters and job opportunities might take me and the city was a central hub. Upon graduation, the only job I could find (without considering out of state relocation) was 30 minutes up the mountain from my rural hometown - leaving me with a 1.5 hour commute, each way. This made my part-time job fill as much time as a full time, and I was spending 15 hours a week in my car. Yuck! I really had to carefully consider whether I ought to stay in the city and seek a job nearby, or move back to my little town in the hills. I've grown to love my school nursing job and have moved back to my hometown. I enjoy a 30 min (one-way) commute up the most beautiful, mountainous, lush highway. What a wonderful way to wake up in the morning and unwind at the end of the work day.