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How far is your commute to work?

Just wondering how far you drive to work? I interviewed for a position and it’s a little over an hour each way, and it’s on nights. I currently drive 30 min and it’s on days but I’m ready for a change. 

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If you're not very accustomed to working nights, I would definitely discourage you from taking a job with that long of a commute. From my personal experience as someone who didn't adjust well to nights, a commute that long is dangerous. I'm very very lucky I never got into a car accident. About 30% of the time, I would have to stop midway through my commute to take a nap, as I was dozing off. And my commute was only 30 minutes.

Folks doing 3 -12 hour shifts had the most diff adjusting. I worked NOCs in 8 hr shifts - no problem driving the 1 hour commute.

The drive home was my 'decompress time'. Even when I worked over a little. 

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4 hours ago, klone said:

If you're not very accustomed to working nights, I would definitely discourage you from taking a job with that long of a commute. From my personal experience as someone who didn't adjust well to nights, a commute that long is dangerous. I'm very very lucky I never got into a car accident. About 30% of the time, I would have to stop midway through my commute to take a nap, as I was dozing off. And my commute was only 30 minutes.

This. ^^

When my sliding across all lanes of highway traffic at night while falling asleep became a regular thing, I gained the attention of the Highway Patrol.  Their presence each night when I was traveling to work further emphasized to me that falling asleep at the wheel is not a good thing; two jobs, one job, or no job don't mix well with little to no sleep and then trying to drive a car.  Learn from the problems and mistakes of others, you have to be prepared to deal with the fact that driving at night, in and of itself, is fatiguing and not necessarily safe.

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