600,000+ miles to work and back ??

mjarrels · Nov 19, 2005

21 years in the navy, sailed the 7 seas, airplane rides around the world, back and forth across the united states many many times.

600,000 miles is a walk in the park.

chim · Nov 20, 2005

AT present, I'm doing 94 miles each way. This project is nearing the end of its year-long duration - and I'm glad. Hope the next one is closer. The projects we do range from 30 to 100 miles away from home.

Travel is on my time, but the company provides me with the choice of a Chevy Trailblazer or an extended cab short box 4WD P/U (I like the latter). They also provide EZ-Pass for the turnpike, all maintenance and a credit card. It is understood that the truck may be used for personal travel. When gas went over $3.00, this was a much-appreciated perk................chim

MossRoad · Nov 21, 2005

David, that must be great to live that close to the job. 

If we build on our property, all that will change for me. We will be 9 miles away from the center of town. That commute will take about 12 minutes. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

My grandpa was a barber and worked in the shop behind his house...

20 feet to work in the morning.
20 feet home for lunch.
20 feet back to work.
20 feet back home in the evening.

Here's what 25 cent haircuts and a good woman taking care of the books for 50 years got him...

He managed to buy three, two story houses for a total of six apartments(one that they lived in), a trailer in Sarasota, FL for the winters and a cottage on an island in a lake in MI to retire in. Not too bad. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif He retired when he was 75 or so. He lived to a ripe old age of 91 and my grandma enjoyed the fruits of their labor for 15 more years, passing on at 98. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

My dad, on the other hand, had a daily commute of 20 miles in each direction when there just weren't any highways between here and there at that time. Wasted an hour each day of his life driving, as he use to say.

MossRoad · Nov 21, 2005

4 years, one month, 11 days till retirement! Then I can walk to work. (Shop's in the back yard!) 

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That sounds like a good job. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Farmwithjunk · Nov 21, 2005

( 4 years, one month, 11 days till retirement! Then I can walk to work. (Shop's in the back yard!) 

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That sounds like a good job. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif )

If I can learn to get along with the boss..................... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

MossRoad · Nov 21, 2005

Oh! I've worked part-time for THAT boss for 20 years already and we get along pretty well. I'm looking forward to working for her full-time in another 20 or so. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Nasty135 · Nov 22, 2005

Bill, That is quite some number you got figured out there, I hope this was done on company time /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif , I guess they owe you that /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I have to do that one day when I go back to work because I'm on vavcation this week /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif and can only waste so much time today... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

But I will say that I have worked for the same company for 25 yrs. and 18+ of that was with a 32mile commute oneway into Wash D.C. and the first 28miles took about as long as the last 4 miles /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif or very close to it. Thankfully I still work for the same place but now I am in Md. with the company vehicle 10 miles from my house...SWEET /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

BB_TX · Nov 22, 2005

I hope this was done on company time 
Nope. Unfortunately my time, my trucks, my fuel. When I first started there, the only jobs were in or near the city. So the choice was live in or close to the city for a short drive, or live out in the country for a long drive. Tried the city for 6 months. That was enough to convince me it was not for me. Still live in the same town I was born and raised in (rare now adays) and work at the same company for 34 years (also fairly rare now).

Tom_H · Dec 2, 2005

( After 40 yrs of driving 30+ miles each way to work every day, that comes out over 600,000 miles.)

Neil Armstrong came pretty close to that in a single eight day commute. Let's see, some of those Russians spent what, around 10 straight months on that Mir thing. Hmmm, 10 months X 30 days/month X 24 hr/day X 17,500 mph = 126,000,000 mi. Not bad. If Bush ever gets to send somebody to Mars, maybe they'll go further. (Wonder whom he'd most like to send?) /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif