Question-how far do you travel for work daily?

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I was wondering how far some of you travel to work and back daily. I live in fairly rural area and I now drive 36 miles round trip for work. I am thinking about taking a job in a larger city farther away. I would be travelling about 80 miles round trip for this job. The hours and days are appealing to me and so is the work. (Pre-op for cardiac caths and such). My husband is kind of concerned about the drive, especially in the winter. Some of the driving is country highway, the rest pretty much interstate. I am just trying to see what the pros and cons are of driving somewhat a distance to work. Thanks.

Specializes in Everything but psych!.

15 minutes for my full time job. (What a luxury after living in L.A., SanFrancisco, and Honolul!). My on call job is 40 minutes away. But, my favorite job is the consulting job I do in my home!

Keeping awake....keep the car cool...as cool as possible, put the favorite music on loud enough to sing with it, and have diet soda on the side to pump in!

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48 miles round trip.

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My new job which I just started last week is 34 miles one way from my home. It's pretty much all highway miles. In the nice weather, it's been taking me about 40 minutes. When the snow starts flying, I imagine it'll probably take me pretty close to an hour to get there.

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much like ursula....... i live about 300' from work. but do i walk? no, no, no! that would be too healthy of an activity & besides where would i leave my purse???? sometimes, for lunch i drive & sing to the radio for 10 min to anywhere & 10 minutes back to hello.......lunch goes fast & it's my favorite part of the day! dharma:cool:

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Specializes in Case Management, Home Health, UM.

I drive 35 miles to the train station, which takes me 45 minutes, then take the train to my office, which takes another 30-40 minutes. I am contemplating transfer to another office, which is 80 miles from me, but the up side is that there is less traffic, and a shorter commute. =)

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Hi....I travel 30 miles to work each way, and about 29 miles of it are highway miles. It's really not too bad, I drive pretty fast, and make it in about 25 minutes. Also, I only work 3 days a week thanks to my 12 hour shifts, and I'm also driving against Boston traffic since I work in NH, so I've got it pretty easy! I've had to drive in the snow, that's the only really nerve-racking part.....just have to go really slow. Once I even brought some clothes to work because I knew it would snow pretty hard and just spent the night at work. Good luck if you take the new job!! :)

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Hope the money is good!

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Corrections.

My full time job is about 8 miles or 15 minutes from home to work. When I go to the other prison and work it is 25 miles and about 35 minutes to get there. I do hate working night shifts over there though......I have missed hitting the back of semi-trucks many times when I use to work nights all the time...not even singing in my car would stop me from falling asleep...:eek:

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I drive about 8 Kilometers to work one way. Last job was at a nursing outpost so I had a 30 second walk to work.

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I travel 84 miles one way. Just started this new job 4 weeks ago. The last job that I had for the past 15 years was only 5.8 miles away. That's why I endured it for so long. Decided after the first week on the new job that I could not drive back and forth daily after my 12 hour midnoc shift so am staying in a motel for two days then coming home after the third shift. I think that will work out better for me.

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