To ask what time you leave in the morning and arrive home in the eve?

[unknownn]

I'm just curious. I work full time mon to fri, I leave at 6:15 to arrive at work a bit before 8:00. Then leave work at 17:00 to arrive home around 18:45. Worrying that my commute time is affecting my focus at work. My friends and family think I'm mad but I've always thought it were normal. Does any one else travel for 1hr 45 mins (or around this) each way for work?

@unknownn have you a family/ kids at home?
That's a very long day just for work.

When I was looking for new jobs my limit was 1 hour each way.

Wfh is brilliant.
I go to the office once a week and I hate the travel as it means I see dc so much less as it's leave home 7.40am, drop dc off get to work then leave work and do reverse, we get home just before 6pm so a mad rush for tea/ bath/ bed then I race round like a maniac to get my bits done before bed. I dread doing that full time to the point I may push to wfh at least 2 days when we have to go back full time.
There's just no time to 'be' and lockdown for me showed how precious that time is.

Are you thinking of leaving?

OP, that’s a pretty long commute.

If I’m dropping off the kids and picking up, I’m out from 7.40 to about 4.30. If I don’t have to sort them out, then probably about 7.30 to anywhere between 5 and 6.15. I only have a 7 minute drive though.

DH has about an hour’s drive and I think that’s long enough.

I didn’t use to mind an hour’s commute on the train. Pre-kids and time to sit and read...

I leave home at 7.30am to start work at 8.30 and leave work at 5.15 and get home around 6.

When I first started at the job, I were pregnant for the first 3 months without knowing🤦‍♀️ I were absolutely SHATTERED with the commute and general baby brain & tiredness. I'm surprised I got past probation!!

Thanks for the replies. Really will weigh up the pros and cons and maybe begin looking elsewhere. I am paid generously but atm it really doesn't outweigh my health!!

That's a long commute which I don't think is sustainable long term (more than a few years) unless it's worth mega bucks. If you drive, you're probably not fully concentrating on the way home either. It must be pricey either in petrol or train/bus fare too.

Up to an hour, is fine, anything more is pushing it just in terms of work life balance.

Now my commute is about a 40 min walk, 15 minute cycle or 7 minutes in the car. Currently leave home at 7.25, drop 2 kids at bus stop, in work for 7.40. Leave work at 2.45 pick up youngest from school, home by 3.10.

Leave at 8:25...drop dc and arrive at work for 8.50
Finish work at 2.40, leave at 3 and collect dc at 3.30. Home by 3.45/4.00 at the latest. I'm a teacher.

No babies here - DP and I don't have time for baby making anymore when all I do it commute !! - When I were pregnant though before the miscarriage I were ready to quit. I highly doubt I'd ever be commuting like that when with children. I'm still fairly young and don't want to slave away working.

Right now I'm WFH. But before
Around 50 mins either way. I have so much more time now it's ridiculous.

Wow that is a long commute. I’m wfh at the moment and worked all over the place but never regularly commuter more than an hour.

I leave for work at 8:10 to start at 8:30 (sometimes go in for 7:30 but still ten minutes travel time). Finish at 4:00. Home by 4:20.

Leave 5.30am

Indoors roughly 7.45pm

On the days DS has nursery I leave the house at 7.45-7.50 to do nursery drop off at 8ish and get to work for 8.20-8.30. Then leave work at 5, pick him up 5.30ish, get home by 6 at the latest.

On the day my parents have him I leave the house at 6.45, drop DS off for 7.15ish, get to work by 8.30. My parents live in the opposite direction of work and the traffic can vary quite a lot. Also depends how long I hang around at their house chatting/sorting out DS/drinking tea. Usually they drop him home so I’m home by 5.30. If they can’t drop him home, we aren’t usually back until gone 7.

Its no life....

If effecting tour health, Try and find something else

Some days it’s 7.15 to get in for just gone 8, get home about 6.20, other days it’s 8.25 and get home about 3.45.
My commute is about 25 mins, but more if I am doing nursery/school drop off. I wouldn’t manage your commute the timings just wouldn’t work.

Is there no possibility of you WFH 2-3 days a week @unknownn? That might just make the other office days bearable.

That amount of commuting (not even accounting for transport delays for whatever reason) is not healthy long term. 🌹

I'm working from home at the moment but before that my commute was about 15 mins. I had a couple of years when it was about 40 mins and that was definitely at the top end of my tolerance.

I don't see how you can have much of a life outside of work during the week if you are spending almost 4 hours a day travelling on top of your work.

I found that I needed my total working day + commute to be under 12 hours to feel anything like normal, preferably under 11.

If you get up at e.g. 5:30, make lunch, shower, get dressed, have breakfast, and then cook dinner, eat at 7:30, finish at 8, you've only got 1.5 hours of day left to do housework and have a life before you need to be in bed again to get a decent amount of sleep.

Is there any way you could work from home some of the time, or is it not that sort of job?

My current (non-Covid) commute is 30 minutes by foot and it is so much better that it puts me off getting another job.

Start at 7am finish between 21:30 and 22:00

It varies so much these days, so, so much... but this week I have been leaving around 7.30am and getting home around 7pm. Bus commute to and from work and some walking built in because I am sick to death of not walking and find it hugely therapeutic to pound the pavements with very loud music in my headphones :)

I leave home 8:15 if I'm doing the school run. 8:45 if DH is doing it.

And home at 3:30 after doing the school run.

Occasionally I work until 5pm. Then I'm home by 5:20.

I changed job because of the commute. Before I had children I was doing about 45 minutes but sometimes it was an hour and a half home. My current job is much closer to home and although there is more traffic problems it is rarely takes longer than 30 minutes and with no traffic about 15 minutes. It is so much better and I know in an emergency I can be at my children's school really quickly.

@unknownn

I'm just curious. I work full time mon to fri, I leave at 6:15 to arrive at work a bit before 8:00. Then leave work at 17:00 to arrive home around 18:45. Worrying that my commute time is affecting my focus at work. My friends and family think I'm mad but I've always thought it were normal. Does any one else travel for 1hr 45 mins (or around this) each way for work?

An hour as a usual commute would have been my max as that still extended to 90 plus minutes when there were issues. Post child, I'd never include such a commute. But to answer your initial questions. I leave home to do the school run, return home, wfh, then repeat for end of school. Best for me and my family.

@unknownn that was my commute - left the house at 6.15am and got back at 7/7.30pm depending on traffic. Did it for 12 years, about half of those with children. I think its more acceptable to have a long commute into London when you live in outer London, but its not really the norm when you live elsewhere, people used to say "You're joking" when I told people where I worked. I now work in walking distance from the office and cannot believe how I managed to fit in everything - I've gained at least 3 hours a day (although I sleep for some of that - no more ridiculously early mornings!). One thing I would say in all seriousness is try to find something close by and establish yourself before you have children - the reason why I ended up in that job for so long was that I worked in a field that is not normally compatible with family life / part time working but because they knew me and I was a good worker, they let me go down to a 3 day week after I had a baby. All the opportunities close to home were full time to start with, with the possibility of flexibility once you'd established yourself which made it incredibly difficult to switch. If I'd moved before children, I might not have needed to stay in my old job for so long.

I used to leave at 0730 back at 1945

I really don't miss it

That’s way too long. Before lockdown my commute was about an hour which was too much. Now I leave the house... never 😂
If we’re ever allowed back it’ll be 30 mins max as we’ve moved.