Very Random Question

Sheffield (Derbyshire side) to Barnsley. Around 20-25 mins on a good day. 45 on a bad day. 1hr30mins on a really bad day.

 

It's been a 7 minute drive for the last 10 years and i'll be damned if i'll be changing that before i retire.
Before that i could be re-deployed to liverpool, warrington and manchester. I recall having to drive to liverpool for an afternoon and night shift ( set off at mid-day and got back at 10 am the next morning!) I was assured i would be able to 'get my head down' but the kids pretty much rioted all night so never happened. That drive home was one of the worst experiences of my life.

 

I used to commute to Worksop where I picked up van then delivered round Nottingham.
Getting in to Nottingham can be a right pain and accidents happen pretty regular round junction 28_26 making it very frustrating at times.
Depends on how much you want it tbh some people enjoy it
Enjoyed summer lunches on banks of Trent ,lots going off.
Maybe as well consider moving if jobs good and secure.

 

I've neve been happier at work than when I lived close enough (in Barnsley) to commute by bike each day. Currently in a better paid job, home based (not as good as you'd think, I miss workmate banter) or journey to south east. Currently on a train to Brighton, 6 hours after leaving home. The joys of weekend engineering works.

I'd take less money and a local job anyday.

 

Yes, I live in Barnsley.

It's flexi time and could work from home sometimes.

Surprised you didn't like Nottingham.

 

Train Barnsley to Nottingham? Hour and 20. Could be ok. Depends if it’s near train station.

 

Live in Tarn, work in Tarn, support Tarn, drink in Tarn, If I posted on a forum I would have Tarn in my handle, oh wait a minute. Seriously, a lot to be said for as little commute as possible. I have declined promotion opportunities in the past due to not wanting to travel/ commute, money isn’t everything to me.

 

Does the 25% pay increase cover the extra fuel, wear and tear on car and extra insurance cost?
I don't know how long it currently takes you to get to work in Sheffield and I don't know where in Nottingham you are going to work, but getting anywhere near the centre of Nottingham can be a right bitch. So if you add in the fact that the M1 will be absolutely rubbish at least once a week (usually Monday morning and Friday afternoon), you can easily add on an average of 50mins to 1hr to your current journey in both directions.
So if you take off your travel costs from your increase, it all depends on whether the remainder compensates for the loss of an extra ten hours of your time each week.
Having said that, if you are ambitious and this experience leads you to something further in your career path, it might be worth gritting your teeth for a while and getting that experience on to your CV.
I've done the travelling thing when I was young and ambitious with responsibilities, it helped me to get to where I wanted to be. But it takes its toll as time goes by. I've also worked 5 minutes walk away and whilst the compensation wasnt as good and I didn't have as much money in my pocket, I did have the time and energy to enjoy what I'd got.

 

I'm about 20 minutes away.

One of the most important things in my life is to be relatively close to where I work. I don't drive, will never drive, and I have done long commutes on trains way, way too many times.

Travelling grinds me down. I'm not having it.

 

I could cope with a longish commute if I was on a train because you can pass the time on your phone, reading etc but been stuck in traffics a killer. Depresses me, luckily I rarely have to travel in rush hour but I’d hate to & the few times I do the boredom of been sat in your car barely moving is awful.

 

Mapplewell to Barnsley town centre is 10/15 minutes on average. If I'm working in Leeds then it's 10/15 minutes into town and then a 45 minute train so under an hour regardless.

 

Lucky enough my recent change now only takes me 5 minutes. It actually takes longer to walk from the car park into the office than it does to get to the car park....

 

Dare I say that living away frum tarn for a few days a week may widen your horizons and give you a more positive outlook on life

 

Apologies Tarntyke, that reply was meant for Conan

 

Why do You think I don’t have a positive outlook on life? I have a wide range of life experiences that Possibly I couldn’t have had, had I not lived and worked in Tarn.

 

Sorry, Replied before I read your second post.

 

I found it very pretentious compared with Sheffield, and yet it's also noticeably full of abject poverty and people living on the absolute fringes of society. My job at the time brought me into contact with a lot of alcoholics, crack addicts, gang members and professional benefits cheats. Obviously such people exist in other places, but with both The Meadows and St Anne's estates virtually bang in the city centre, the horrendous social disparity in Nottingham was always in your face. I'm not sure what it's like now mind, that was over ten years ago.

 

20 minute walk, something that for me is a huge quality of life thing I'd struggle to give up. I'm lucky that i enjoy what i do and have been able to progress without moving around. It would have to be my absolute dream job to contemplate commuting, especially having a little one. And I think at that I would only ever do so by train. My first job after graduating was driving from Wath to Leeds everyday and it nearly killed me.

 

I used to do approx 3 hours a day, so changed jobs and now 15 mins.

 

I’ve gone from working from home four days a week to an hours commute four days a week (with the other one at home) mainly because I was bored shitless, it’s not even much more money.

Still not decided if I’ve done the right thing yet...