I have no idea how people can commute from Trenton to NYC everyday. It is absolutely exhausting. I awake at 5 and I am out of my house by 6:30. My train pulls into Penn Station around 8:30. Today we were a half hour late because the train before mine hit a person and the trains stopped so the tracks could be cleaned of body parts. All day long I am on the phone. It is strange for me to go from knowing everything to knowing nothing. In my last company, I was there almost 10 years and I knew it all. In this new position, I am trying to absorb as much as I can but it just isn’t happening fast enough for my taste. It will happen, I must be patient. At 4:55 I run out of the office and sprint to Penn Station to catch the 5:01 train. I reach my car around 6:20 and I am home by 6:50. The last few nights I have considered going to bed at 7:00. Maybe I am just not used to it and once I grow more accustomed to the commute and the work I will not be as exhausted. I hope so. Heck, I hope the commute to and from Philly won’t be as draining. (if they ever find an office here!)
donnaville
sugar and spice and everything groovy
I used to commute 2 hours one way by car in Los Angeles and it was a bear. Always seemed worse on the commute home. It will become routine, but hopefully they will open an office closer to you soon. I’d just like to be a spectator and watch you sprint for that 5:01 train.
“find an office here” ?
I commute from OC to LA, its only 51 miles, but takes 1 hr at 5 to 6 am. I wake up at 4:30am. BUT I leave by 3:30 pm just in time to get home by 5:00 pm. You get used to it, but it takes time. As far as being in one place 11 years, I go about 3-5 years and then jump to a new place. You learn lots of new stuff, BUT you also take with you YOUR expertise that a different company paid for you to gain. Never forget that. Anyways good luck
-Jason
I know! They had an office ready but somehow it fell through either it was the lease or they found out our competitor would be across the hall, it was something like that. We shall see. Truth is, I am not in a huge hurry for an office because once I get the ropes, I can work from home and that would be SWEET!