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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by marssaxman on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @04:52PM (#11030073)
I never got used to the Microsoft commute, and that was rarely worse than 90 minutes coming home. It sucked, it continued to suck, it never got any better, it ruined my day, I hated my life, and it felt so good to drive away on my last day of that terrible job knowing I would never again have to spend any time on SR520 if I didn't want to. (I avoided that road for years afterward, actually, even when it would have been the sensible route to wherever I was going.)

I'm not going to try to get used to it, never again. Life is too short to waste that much of it in hell. I won't even consider a job with a bad commute anymore. If that limits my employment prospects, so be it - I have a life to live!

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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by infinite8s on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @07:01PM (#11030959)
Commuting by car is much worse than commuting by bus or train (for any time greater than 45 min).
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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by marssaxman on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @07:36PM (#11031111)
Your bus options must be a hell of a lot nicer than mine. (I haven't had the option of commuting by train since college, alas.)
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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by infinite8s on Thursday February 04, 2016 @10:56AM (#11034767)
NYC metro area - I've been commuting by train, but I know many people who live in NJ who commute in by bus.
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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by sammydavis on Thursday February 04, 2016 @02:39AM (#11032561)
wow, where did you live where getting to microsoft via 520 took 1.5 hours? 1 hour i believe as an occasional max. maybe across puget sound?
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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by marssaxman on Thursday February 04, 2016 @06:03AM (#11033186)
Getting to Microsoft never took all that long - it was getting home that took forever and sucked the life out of me.
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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by jschwartzi on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:56AM (#11034258)
Yeah, I have the same issue going south on I-405 in the afternoon. The road is clogged from 3 miles north of Bellevue and remains clogged until a couple miles south of I-90. I used to spend 50% of my commute time in that pile.

We really needed to build rail in the space where we added a toll lane.

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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by wernercd on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:14AM (#11033988)
I commute ~60 minutes each direction by car. My drive is simple: few minutes to main road from work/home... 55 minutes north/south on a single road... few minutes to work/home.

The time honestly dissapears... Podcasts and/or audio books.

The scary part is how much time is spent on "auto-pilot".

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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by jeffinhat on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @05:19PM (#11030304)
Was the connector not an option for you or have things gotten better? I commute in slightly off hours (7am and 4pm) and it consistently takes ~35 minutes door to door.
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Re:How to Survive an Acquisition by marssaxman on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @05:25PM (#11030342)
The connector was not an option for me. I quit in 2009; things may well have gotten better since then.
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