Longer commute to work

Away With The Fairies

- Currently on a little over minimum wage but money was never an issue with me as I can budget well
- Short walk to work (10 minutes)

- Not entirely happy with my job
- Short commute is about the only good thing really
- Always felt undermined in my job (won't go into details)

- Recently I have accepted a new job. Haven't started yet.
- More pay in the new job
- New job is a 50 minute walk
- Or a 20 minute walk and 10 minutes on a bus
- Or a 30 minute cycle (I am very unfit)

Is a new job worth it with a longer commute? Just travelling on a wet, cold, windy day or night will be a pain in the hole.

NinjaTruncs

How much more are they paying you? If it's 50 minute walk that should only be a 10-15 minute cycle, once you get your fitness up.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

That commute is grand and winter cycling ain’t no thing. You warm up very quickly and it doesn’t rain half as much as you’d think.

Away With The Fairies

Thanks for the replies. I don't know why I was doubting myself. Guess I need some rain gear.

Sheeps

You wont be unfit for long if you cycle. Two birds with one stone.

20Wheel

Get a moped with the extra pay.

Great craic and will have you there in 10 mins.

corner of hells

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

Thanks for the replies. I don't know why I was doubting myself. Guess I need some rain gear.

Good for you , wrap up , stick on the headphones and congrats on the new job.

LirW

Life is too short for staying in a job you hate. You've thought well about it and considered all options. Get that bike and rain gear, have a leap card on you just in case and off you go.

Well done, enjoy your new job!

Febreeze

Away With The Fairies wrote: »

- Currently on a little over minimum wage but money was never an issue with me as I can budget well
- Short walk to work (10 minutes)

- Not entirely happy with my job
- Short commute is about the only good thing really
- Always felt undermined in my job (won't go into details)

- Recently I have accepted a new job. Haven't started yet.
- More pay in the new job
- New job is a 50 minute walk
- Or a 20 minute walk and 10 minutes on a bus
- Or a 30 minute cycle (I am very unfit)

Is a new job worth it with a longer commute? Just travelling on a wet, cold, windy day or night will be a pain in the hole.

Is this a joke or?
20 min walk, wear decent rain gear if weather is rubbish, 1p mins on a bus to get the heat back into you then work. 30 mins cycle in the summer when the sun is beaming will be lovely. If its rubbish, again, proper rain gear. If weather is fine, 50 mins and headphones. Be grand

Samuel T. Cogley

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

That commute is grand and winter cycling ain’t no thing. You warm up very quickly and it doesn’t rain half as much as you’d think.

Cyclists frequently say this and yet it tends to rain exactly as much as I think it does; a big clue being the water coming from the sky.

Shefwedfan

People are travelling hours and hundred of Kms to earn a few quid and your complaining about a 20-40 min cycle?

Some people leave on a Sunday and return on a Friday

If you don’t want to cycle get one of those electric scooter jobs

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Cyclists frequently say this and yet it tends to rain exactly as much as I think it does; a big clue being the water coming from the sky.

Point missed.

I spent a year cycling to work in what was considered a very bad weather year in one of the statistically rainiest part of the country and I rarely got drenched. It rains on many days in Ireland but it rarely rains continuously. That’s crucial. It often looks like it’s going to rain more than it actually rains. The cycle to and from work often won’t coincide with rain. Then, even if it’s raining during either journey, if it’s light rain, you’re often moving too fast to get anything other than a tiny bit wet, the kind of superficial wetness that is dry within minutes once indoors. I preferred cycling in winter, late autumn and early spring. A far less sweaty endeavour. Very pleasant once warmed up and that happens quickly.

So when cyclists say that, they are counteracting the notion that cycling to work means regular drenchings, because that’s not their experience. They saying it for a reason.

Away With The Fairies

Febreeze wrote: »

Is this a joke or?
20 min walk, wear decent rain gear if weather is rubbish, 1p mins on a bus to get the heat back into you then work. 30 mins cycle in the summer when the sun is beaming will be lovely. If its rubbish, again, proper rain gear. If weather is fine, 50 mins and headphones. Be grand

I got very used to living close to work.