What is the longest you’ve commuted for a job?

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1. 2 hours one way

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3. 90 miles round trip 5x a week

4. 2h each way

5. 120 miles daily, when I was starting out. Time varied from 2-4 hours depending on traffic, it was fortunately majority highway driving. I WFH now and I don’t think I could ever go back to that.

6. Around 1.5 hours each way.

7. Halfway across the country. I flew out and back every week during a several months long project.

8. About 20 minutes.

9. My current commute is 1.5 hours each way. At least I only have to go once a week.

10. 1.5 hours each way without traffic.

11. 2 hours each way.

12. 3.5 hours there, 3.5 – 4.5 back depending on the bus (took 2 trains and a bus each way)

13. Mine is currently 1hr 10 mins to 1hr 30mins each way. Sucked at first but kind of used to it now. I take the bus so I read and talk to LDR boyfriend on the phone to pass the time.

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15. 45 mins -1hr one way. It sucked. I now drive an avg of 12 mins to work and about 20 mins home, and it is WAY better for my mental health

16. 40 minutes each way. The bus stopped right outside my home and my workplace, so it was nice and a chill 40 minute nap tbh.

17. 2.5 hours each way. It sucked the life out of me.

18. 2.5 hours depending on traffic.

19. An hour and a half (96 miles) one way.

20. 57 minutes each way by car, 1hr20 by train.

21. 45min to 1hr…but I rarely have to go in 🙂

22. An hour and 15 minutes. 15 minute bike ride. 45 minutes train. 15 minute bike ride. As long as it wasn’t raining, it wasn’t too bad. I got to exercise twice a day and take a 45 minute nap twice a day.

23. Some of these responses are insane. The furthest I travelled was 1.5 hours and only lasted a month. That was hell. Feel so fortunate to be fully remote and WFH now. Not sure I’d want to go back to office ever.

24. 45mins door to door, quicker if I took the train but I like taking the bus. V lucky to live in a city with great transport links and good government investment in infrastructure.

25. Damn, I hated the 45 min commute I had (mostly due to morning traffic any other time it was about 30 min), and I am seeing people with 1 hour or longer 😵‍💫

26. 45 mins to an 1 hour 15 mins, depending on traffic.

    It’s “only” 3-4 days a week but I’m over it and looking for a place closer.

27. 50 mins one way.

28. About 1.5 hours. I rode the bus to work. Had to transfer between two busses everyday.

29. Currently my drive is 40 minutes both ways which is the longest I’ve ever had but I work on a 4 on, 5 off rotation and there’s another lady at work that drives 4hrs here and just lives here for her 4 day block, then drives home and stays there for her 5 days off. My dad is a firefighter and they all shift trade 24hr shifts so they’ll drive 5+ hrs from across the province, live in the city they work in for a few days, then drive back and have like 3 weeks off.

30. 2 hours one way

31. Three hours. Five in rush hour with traffic. Exhausting. I don’t know how I did it.

32. Two and a half hours. It was absolutely terrible. Five hours of my life every day wasted on it for nearly two years.

33. as a management consultant, I once for a project commuted from San Francisco to Singapore (it was doing work for the airline there, so the cost of the travel wasn’t an issue, and could work on the plane) commuted every second week or so

34. It used to take me 2 hours to drive 15 miles through Seattle traffic. It was FUCKING TERRIBLE.