One Step Forward...
Dec. 5th, 2016 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanSorry LJ, been a bit busy this last fortnight... for the reader of the travel diary, I'll get back to it, I promise, it's just taking time to get the photos ready, edit the entries, add new stuff, then discover the new stuff needs more photos...
And in the meantime, I've rejoined the workforce. A new job in an old career - furniture... which I haven't sold seriously for a few years, but it all comes back to you. The money's good, the co-workers are okay so far & the boss seems laid back & supportive. There must be something wrong, right??!!
So far, the only thing wrong is that the Showroom is in Castle Hill. For those not from 'round here, that's quite a distance from where we live on the Northern Beaches area of Sydney. Monday morning peak-hour travel time is around 75 minutes & the trip home takes about an hour. But that's okay, really - my last job was based in the Eastern & South-eastern suburbs & it took about the same times, mostly because I was dealing with city-bound traffic in the morning, & outbound in the evening, which is probably the same in any city anywhere... completely f@#ked up. At least now I'm moving most of the time & my neglected Ford V8 is getting its exercise up & down the M2 motorway five times a week. This all requires me leaving home at 7.30am & returning around 6.30pm, which means that, by the time we've eaten, been domestic & caught up with each other, it's pretty much time for bed. Plus, my workday is Friday - Tuesday, but everybody else's isn't, so still lots of weekend socialising in the middle of my working week. Blargh...
I know... First World problems - starving kids in Africa, refugees everywhere, war, famine disease, dying coral reefs, Amazon deforestation, Trump, Brexit & the rise of xenophobia & nationalism. Perspective... I get it
And in the meantime, I've rejoined the workforce. A new job in an old career - furniture... which I haven't sold seriously for a few years, but it all comes back to you. The money's good, the co-workers are okay so far & the boss seems laid back & supportive. There must be something wrong, right??!!
So far, the only thing wrong is that the Showroom is in Castle Hill. For those not from 'round here, that's quite a distance from where we live on the Northern Beaches area of Sydney. Monday morning peak-hour travel time is around 75 minutes & the trip home takes about an hour. But that's okay, really - my last job was based in the Eastern & South-eastern suburbs & it took about the same times, mostly because I was dealing with city-bound traffic in the morning, & outbound in the evening, which is probably the same in any city anywhere... completely f@#ked up. At least now I'm moving most of the time & my neglected Ford V8 is getting its exercise up & down the M2 motorway five times a week. This all requires me leaving home at 7.30am & returning around 6.30pm, which means that, by the time we've eaten, been domestic & caught up with each other, it's pretty much time for bed. Plus, my workday is Friday - Tuesday, but everybody else's isn't, so still lots of weekend socialising in the middle of my working week. Blargh...
I know... First World problems - starving kids in Africa, refugees everywhere, war, famine disease, dying coral reefs, Amazon deforestation, Trump, Brexit & the rise of xenophobia & nationalism. Perspective... I get it
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Date: 2016-12-05 04:48 pm (UTC)Well, maybe not riches but "the money's good" and that good.
I understand about travel time. I went to work by subway. It was an hour each way but, if tired, I could close my eyes and rest.
I couldn't open the R.E.M video (it contains content from UMG <= ??? who has blocked it in my country on copyright grounds. Oh, blah. I opened the song in YouTube. No problem. Now I'm listening to Losing My Religion. I like R.E.M.
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Date: 2016-12-06 04:29 am (UTC)My commute these days is 15-20 minutes each way. The worst was living in Arlington, TX, and working in Plano, TX. Something like 104 miles round-trip each day, about 45 minutes in the morning (low traffic, high speed) and about 1.5 hours or worse in the afternoon (bumper-to-bumper crawl).