Longest daily commute

[Huffam]

for the 2 years i worked for hellcrafters, er, um... i mean Lenscrafters in Wisconsin i had a 110 mile commute every day. round trip. last month i moved home to Alaska, and now i have about a 15 mile round trip commute... i am sure i could have found optical work closer to my location in WI, but i was offered too much money for too little work NOT to take the LC job.... but now in AK i am making DOUBLE that and less than 1/4 of the drive! plus the view is sooooo worth it

edit: also at LC this was a 6 and sometimes 7 days a week drive. i was appearently the only decent person they where capable of hiring, in a 6 month period i got maybe 9 days off....

[SharonB]

for the 2 years i worked for hellcrafters, er, um... i mean Lenscrafters in Wisconsin i had a 110 mile commute every day. round trip. last month i moved home to Alaska, and now i have about a 15 mile round trip commute... i am sure i could have found optical work closer to my location in WI, but i was offered too much money for too little work NOT to take the LC job.... but now in AK i am making DOUBLE that and less than 1/4 of the drive! plus the view is sooooo worth it

edit: also at LC this was a 6 and sometimes 7 days a week drive. i was appearently the only decent person they where capable of hiring, in a 6 month period i got maybe 9 days off....

Been there - done that. I commuted from the Mid-Hudson Valley in NY, into Manhattan for 12 years - I was teaching at a college with an Ophthalmic Dispensing program. 65 miles of hell in the morning (2 1/2 hours) and heaven forbid if one car was disabled on the West Side Highway! But - I had evening classes and left around 9 p.m., so the ride home was about 1 hour. I only posted this because today is the 11th anniversary of 9/11 - That was a horrible day for all of us, and my commute became the worst nightmare one might imagine.

[cocoisland58]

100 miles round trip for six years, one hour on a good day, 3 hours on the worst. Now 2 miles, 2 minutes. Did I like my old job better? Yep, but not beating the hell out of a car and paying 4.00 a gallon for gas twice a week makes up for it.