What does your commute look like?
Did.it change at all during the height of the COVID pandemic? Has it changed since?

9/28/2024 4:42:54 PM

I work from home most of the time now. During COVID, we went to a full remote policy. Even now, they only mandate we come into the office once a week.

I usually go into the office once or twice a week. My commute is about 20, and the majority of that is because of traffic. It's a godsend in the DC metro area.

9/28/2024 4:45:07 PM

i traverse roadways within a motor vehicle

9/28/2024 10:25:28 PM

Mine mostly looks like a line. Maybe a drunk line.

9/28/2024 10:40:21 PM

Mine is about 50 minutes each way (ranges from prob 45 on a good day to over an hour if anything backs up traffic). It's just under 30 miles each way.

I've been doing that since 2012, except for not quite 3 years where I was working a different job 65 miles away, which was a little over an hour each way, plus about a half-mile or 3/4 mile walk once I got there. That sucked.

COVID had no impact; we barely missed a beat, except we were wearing masks when we could, and for about a year, we'd get sent home (paid) for a day or two or sometimes a week or more if the decision matrix they had required it due to exposures, positives tests, etc. Post-COVID, same as it always was.

In about 8 months, my daughter will graduate HS and I'll have nothing to tether me to where I live. I can move closer to work, or take a different job and live wherever I want. Right now, I think I'm gonna stay put for a couple of years until I can get hired as a pilot for an overseas rotating contract job (gone ~2 months, back 2 months). Do that for a few years, then go to the airlines if I want to.

[Edited on September 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM. Reason : ]

9/29/2024 6:59:56 PM

Right now I'm pretty consistently 20-25min each way. I generally go in Mon/Tues/Thurs and some Wednesdays depending on the week. I very rarely go in on Friday unless we have some people in town. I work for a small startup where things are moving very quickly so we are pushing hard on in-person currently.

The company I was working at during COVID was 100% WFH from ~March 2020 until vaccines became available ~April 2021. It became optional to go in around then - I started going in about 2x / week but was pretty sporadic. Summer 2022 we started to require interns to come in 3x / week. Summer 2023 the whole company was mandated to come in 2x / week but adoption was maybe 50% of employees. I no longer work at that company but they added a third day in January 2024 which made Fridays mandatory office days and it's the highest office attendance day currently which surprised me.

9/30/2024 11:51:00 AM

20-30 minutes each way in a European Capital if things are moving. During Covid years I was in PRC. Almost never worked from home. Had an apartment in our factory/office. So slept in office apartment during lock down days.

[Edited on October 5, 2024 at 4:24 PM. Reason : a]

10/5/2024 4:23:24 PM

What kind of car is a European capital? Citroen or something?

10/15/2024 5:42:22 PM

Capital city of an European country, brah!

10/16/2024 3:16:08 PM

Went remote March 2020. Company sold it's in person offices by end of 2020. Got another remote job in 2021. Travelled a bit to Seattle and Virginia. Company started pulling people back in the office through a bunch of increasingly tough policies and told me to move back to west coast so I bailed and got another remote job.

Occasionally I commute 5-8 minutes to a local library or coffee shop. Fully expect to have to go into an office again eventually, just not with 3 kids under 4.

10/20/2024 9:18:55 AM