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How far do you commute in miles and time? I am looking to change my job and currently have a one hour commute but catch the tram and changing jobs will have to drive.

I used to drive a 70 mile round-trip commute in a previous job but was wondering how far you would travel for the job you really want with a lot more money and how does it affect life with the horse/s? I just recall always being tired when driving a lengthy commute!
 
0 miles 0 minutes for me most of the time these days :) I work from home almost all the time.

Used to have an 80 mile round trip, hour each way - you do what you have to do - it was tiring when I had 2 horses to do and winter was a struggle as I just always seemed to be in the dark. It cost a lot in fuel and put a lot of miles on my car. I had to be in work for 7.30am or there was no parking available so I was out of bed about 4.45 to ride one before work each day, and did the other after work. But I needed a job and it paid the bills!

I LOVE having no commute now, and I make a lot of compromises to keep it this way as it just felt like such a waste of time sitting in the car. I also have flexible hours and I get a lot of freedom :) The horses come first... I would have to REALLY want the job to start commuting again now.
 
Work is a 5 min drive in one direction and the yard 5 mins the other way. Used to be 25mins ish but moved house as 25mins was regularly also becoming 45mins when there was problems with the traffic
 
14 miles. Road network not good so takes about 40 mins it's not ideal but I have no choice. I work normal office hours so it adds 80 mins onto my working day - not much fun in winter but there's nothing I can do about it and compared to some people 40 mins isn't too bad I suppose
 
My commute has been around 40 mins each way for the past few years

I moved yards when I moved jobs as the yard was in the wrong direction.

I don't tend to ride much in the week in the winter even though we have lights, just because muckING out etc is too time consuming. Horse lives out in summer so no haynets and mucking out to do.
 
These days it's about 20min from house to yard and then just shy of 20min to office.

Feel very, very lucky as have spent years doing ridiculous commutes and feeling like I spent all my live in either the car or the train.
 
Starting a new job soon and timed my commute as I drove past the office the other day.... 6 minutes :D

The plan is to cycle in the summer as I go past my horses summer turnout on the way :)
 
I spend about 3 hours a day travelling between home, work and yard, mixture of tube and driving. I make it work by having my horse in livery and rushing around like a lunatic at work, but when I have a heavy week at work it's hard going. Even on a good week I am usually too tired to school well by Thursday, so I particularly love the long summer evenings when weekday evening hacks are a possibility! It is definitely do-able if that's what you want, but I am expecting to be made redundant this year and would really like my next job to be more local. Even taking an hour out of the time I spend travelling each day would give me a realistic prospect of being able to fit in a pilates class or something on non-riding nights, which I think would really help my riding. At the moment I just don't have the time or the energy!
 
6 mins, I'm a "homeworker" but choose to rent a hot desk in the closest town. Its a massive bonus that comes with my job, and does make it difficult for me to look elsewhere as I don't want to go back to commuting. Horses are at home now too.

I used to do around 25 mins each way with the yard kind of on the way to work, about 40 mins with the diversion to the yard. That was okay until I had my daughter, then it was just a bit too far for the weekends or hols. I moved yards and work relocated so I then had a 40 min commute up the motorway with the yard around 5 mins from home, which was manageable but became difficult if there were any traffic issues as I was always tight on time.
 
It's about 45 miles each way - at least an hour each way, sometimes more.

You get used to it but I do wish work was closer
 
45mins to an hour each way depending on which office I'm based that day! We live in the middle of nowhere though so I would struggle to reduce that dramatically!
 
20 miles for me, so 40 miles a day. Thankfully the horse is enroute so it makes it simplier - I get to the yard to get all my jobs done before work, thus missing a large percentage of the rush hour commute for the majority of the journey.

In the evenings I can just either finish off & put to bed fairly quickly, or I can ride. Most days I ride as it means again, by the time I leave the yard I've missed the rush hour traffic.

I do make sure I get to work early, so I can leave at about 4.45/5pm as this makes a huge difference to the journey to the yard taking 10-15 minutes to taking 35 minutes +.

I try to use my car time as productively as I can - CD books are brilliant, or I've got hands free in my car so will often make a call. I also try to have productive lunch breaks as I'm lucky there is a free gym on site or will do boring jobs like going to the bank, eye appointments and so on so I don't need to use time at the weekend to do so.

I'd be lying if I said I don't get tired, but on the whole I'm used to it now. It was more of a shock when I had to start commuting as had always worked locally, but it's a way of life now (I live quite rurally, so will probably alwaus have a commute now) & having a good routine helps enormously.
 
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I was travelling 60 miles each way then the company bought another business and I had to travel 90 miles each way to that one at least once a week

I coped ok with the ponies at the time but there were a lot of very early starts and finishes

The job before that was over 100 miles to South of London but that was before ponies and my husband ended up with the bulk of the work on our little smallholding as I was spending either 4 hours or more in the car or staying over in a hotel

I now commute 15 miles each way and this works very well, I would drive further, I could possibly go back to the 60 mile journey but think I would draw the line at the 90 or 100 mile journeys unless the money was so mega I could put my lot on full livery

The bonus of the 15 mile journey I do currently is that if I need to wait for the farrier or vet first thing I can get to work a bit later, its a bit more flexible when you work closer

Hasten to add that I privately rent my little yard so can absolutely please myself as to what time I go and do the ponies, they have been turned out at 6pm and bought in at 9pm before and that flexibility really works for me
 
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We have 5 sites across the UK, 2 i work at regularly. One is approx 3 miles from my house (about 9 from the yard) the other is approx 35 miles from my house (around 25 miles from yard)
 
45 mins each way-never less and very occasionally a little more. I work flexitime (with core hours) which helps but horses are at home (kinda). I don't ride in the winter anyway but wish I didn't have to commute so far these days-I did choose to live here though and have been commuting this sort of distance for about 13 years. I could put those 90mins to good use though!

I have had longer commutes (just no horses back then) from Newmarket to South London, so I have it easy now really.
 
80 miles a day, between 40-60 mins each way. I actually quite enjoy it as crazy as that sounds. I like my car, like listening to the radio. It gives me a chance to think, so I can be relaxed when I get home :)
 
I used to do 106 miles a day, and did for several years, have moved job to one closer to home, but it doesn't save me anytime.

I only have one horse and have her on livery so she gets basic care so I just have to groom and exercise, but keeping her hunting fit means lots of late evenings
 
I have just recently got a new job! (was unemployed for the last 6 weeks after having finished my MSc last September then having an awful job where the boss made me resign!). Horsey wise, I have a pony in the north of Scotland who I hope to move down when I finally start making some money.

My commute will be 20 mins each way on the bus into the city centre (Leeds) which is south of where we live. I am still looking at yards which I hope to be around a 15-20 minute drive north of home. I am hoping to be DIY with possible turnout in the mornings Mon-Fri. Travel and potential yards are taking up a lot of my brain space at the moment! Possibly more than the job itself! lol. Really looking forward to moving her now.
 
Mine varies depending on the client I'm working for at any particular time.
I try and keep it to 2 days travel a week with 3 days from my rented home office (5 mins drive). Currently I do 2 days a week from client office which is 52 mile round trip, but against traffic so only 40 mins each way which is lovely. Last contact I did 2 days a week by train and tube which was 2.5h door to door each way, not fun.
 
It's 13 miles to the yard which takes 30-45 minutes depending on traffic, then 8 miles from yard to office, I usually leave half an hour which gets me parked and walked into work for pretty much bang on 9. I used to commute 25 miles each way to work, at 11am/8pm it was a 50 minute trip, at 9am/5pm it would be at least an hour and a half. I love being closer to home now, I was surprised by what a difference it's made cutting my commute by even a little bit.
So for me it's not necessarily how far but how easy the journey, what time I'll be having to do it and what kind of route it is.
 
Whoopit said:
How far do you commute in miles and time? I am looking to change my job and currently have a one hour commute but catch the tram and changing jobs will have to drive.

I used to drive a 70 mile round-trip commute in a previous job but was wondering how far you would travel for the job you really want with a lot more money and how does it affect life with the horse/s? I just recall always being tired when driving a lengthy commute!
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o miles but I can tell you in steps. 2 and I am on the yard. :)
 
Work is 5.5 miles from home. School hols it takes 10 mins :)

In term time, coupled with perhaps bad weather, it takes anything from 30 to 50 mins (average is 40 mins) to get there.

Return trip if going home, is about 10-15 mins in evening.

However, through the winter I go direct to the yard and this takes about 30 mins to do the 8 miles in heavy traffic.
Then about 15 mins to get home from yard doing 4 miles (unless roadworks etc feature, as at present, so its taking 30+ mins, grr!)

I did at 1 point work at canary wharf, meant leaving home at just after 6 & getting into office about 8.15/30 - returning home about 7-8pm, only did this for 3 years tho as would never do it again!
 
I work flexibly so as long as do core hours and overall at least 37 hours can start late or finish early. I can go into the local office 7 miles 20-25 minutes due to traffic or I can work from home. I also travel to London fairly frequently pretty much at least once a week at the moment and sometimes stay away mainly Bristol, Birmingham and occasionally Sheffield. My friend looks after my horse Mon-Fri and I do weekends.

These days I wouldn't contemplate any kind of daily lengthy commute unless I lost my job and was desperate but at the start of my career I would have done what I needed to do to progress. Not just for money but for a more interesting or fulfilling role and the chance of better opportunites.
 
At the moment whilst as the crow flies its probably only 40-45 miles away, I'm commuting roughly 3-3.5hrs a day as going into London and back out. My horse is turned out and brought in for me, I muck out and ride when I get to the yard at around 7.30pm, get home around 9-9.30pm. I do now have a sharer who does 2-3 weeknights and then I do the other few days and the weekend so seems to be working for me so far!
 
About 2 miles/10 mins to work in the morning, then 38 miles from work to yard which takes between 50 mins and 1hr 50 mins. Then roughly 36 miles back home which usually takes about 50 mins at that point. Hellish but I can't find a decent livery yard within budget nearer where I live now.
 
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