An electrical engineer working for Cisco endures a 7-hour daily commute from his residence to Cisco’s headquarters and back.
With his family still sleeping, [Dave] Givens heads out the door at around 4:30 a.m. from a horse ranch at the edge of the astonishing Yosemite National Park. On a good day, he can make the 186-mile trip to Cisco’s sprawling offices in less than three hours.
Givens then usually arrives home at around 8 or 8:30 p.m. This drive home through thicker traffic can take up to five hours some days.
Givens is right to wonder whether his lifestyle’s still appropriate. I mean, how many hours does he actually put in at the office? Travel time’s probably almost equivalent to that. I’m wondering how he keeps productive with all that time and energy spent on the road.
Stories like these make me thankful I work from home (or anywhere with WiFi)!
It take’s me 5 hours (round trip) on a good day.
The point here is not that he loves his job so much that he’s willing to travel so far but that he loves the beautiful natural setting surrounding his home. That’s what makes it worth it for this guy.
I’m a student and it takes me 1 1/2 hours to get to school using two trains and a bus. Same on the way home. So 3 hour round-trip.
Takes me about 15 by bus each way, but usually that involves waiting for upwards of an hour for the right bus to go by, so it varies every day from 20 minutes to close to an hour each way.
At my last job, it was taking me over 6 hours round trip. I was working 8 and communting 6. But this was because my car broke down and I had to take public transportation. This is the real problem. When I lived in Japan, I could go anywhere by train and by comparison, it didn’t take so long. American West Coast public transporation has a long way to go.
Anyway, I quit that job and now it takes me roughly 1 1/2 hours each way.
I’m about 1.5 hours each way via car and carpool lane.
10 minutes. On foot. And people ask me why I live in Manhattan.
I’m also a student and i have a 1:10 minute bus ride to school and about the same back home.
To my cellphone or laptop – it takes about 1-3 seconds depending on the day and area distractions.
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