"You don't want to live and work in the same place."

I hear a lot of people don't like their jobs.

I don't think he meant live in the office but live in the same town / city.

You don't want to not live and work in the same place. Because the alternative is commuting.

I'm on a four hour total commute a day at the moment. The thread title is clearly wrong.

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Oh, okay. In that case fuck a commute.

lol I used to think a 45 minute 2-bus trip across the city was a "commute". I liked it tho cos it was an hour and a half's uninterrupted reading time every day, all being well.

it would take some serious circumstances for me to work more than 10k from home. sure i spend nearly two hours in transit, but that's walking

living and working in the same borough is pretty great

I have come to appreciate the opportunities my travelling time presents for reading/listening to music/podcasts etc but still, I'd rather walk to work. No chance o' that.

People laugh when I tell them I can't deal with a 45min commute.

hmm

1 hour commute on foot at the moment (half hour there and back)

soon to be 1.5 - 2 hour commute by bus

best ever: 10 minute commute on foot, but my company went and moved offices

i did three months, ten years ago, of commuting from edinburgh to glasgow and back every day. it was fucking horrible.

^I am just going into the 3rd month (of 6) doing the same and it is fucking horrible.

Uh this phrase means working from home, right?

it doesn't man same city, it means same part of city

my commute is 60mins each way. i live in the city and work in the country and aside from burning so much fukkin gas, i like it that way.

i used to work in w1 -- i would have been ok with living there, all in all.

I am very, very OK with living in the very centre of Central London.

I'm working at home and DAMN have figured out that I need a desk somewhere that's not my flat. Perhaps that's what the czn means?

to the extent it means you want to psychically separate your work and living spaces, it means don't work at home. to the extent it means you need some variation in your scenery, it means don't live in the same neighborhood as your job.

No, I think the person who said it essentially meant he wanted to divorce work life from life life.

Of course I heard it as 'I want to commute'.

Working from home is the apogee (or is it apotheosis?) of this. I would kill to work from home. Isn't it awesome?

I am working from home today. It's great, as long as everyone else is out or fairly quiet, but I'm not sure if I am disciplined enough to do it all the time. Now...off to play guitar for 20 mins or so...

i work from home - eh its got its up and downs

can get v lonely and monotonous

yah and the constant need for self-discipline is kinda a bitch

on the other hand i do whatever i want whenever i want

I really need a tight deadline to work from home, or I tend to half-work, half potter about, being distracted whatever else is going on.

Friends who did the live/work artist studio thing have all graduated to having normal flats elsewhere but keeping their studios, usually because of relationship and family needs.

Provided you have a dedicated room instead of a dedicated desk/table, and you don't sit there stewing in your jammies until 2pm, it's perfectly reasonable to be able to work from home.

ideal would prob be to work in a good environment w/people u like a ten minute walk from home w/the option to work at home when you felt like it

i have trouble "working from home" as a student -- the formlessness seems to encourage inertia and procrastination. so count me in as one of those coffee shop laptop douchebags.

xpost Yes but my dedicated room has guitars in it!

I prefer to work at the kitchen table if no one's in, so I can look out into the garden.

You can end up pretty stir crazy working from home. I freelance and could theoretically work at home, but I co-rent a small office space.

see i cant imagine working in a coffee shop id get so distracted looking at / listening to all the people

tbh i can timewaste just as well in an office as at home, but working not-at-home is good for some things, such as contact with other human beings and whatnot. i work best in libraries (lol i don't have a proper job) because i get to not use the internet.

the office here is so dull/lo-morale that i might as well be at home. i am going home soon...maybe after lunch.

benefits of coffee shop:

-you have to get dressed
-you can't really wander around
-you have a somewhat limited amount of time so you want to be productive

working at home = clicking F5 on ILX new answers hoping hoping hoping someone has updated a thread in the last 15 seconds since you last looked.

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these are OTM, although I have only managed to sample the coffee shop work life whilst looking for work. It does seem to increase productivity.

libraries are too quiet for me, which is to say not quiet enough -- i expect complete silence so when i hear someone whispering or speaking at low volume it drives me mad.

working at home = clicking F5 on ILX new answers hoping hoping hoping someone has updated a thread in the last 15 seconds since you last looked.

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hah otm - tho many an ilxor seems to have mastered this skill in a office enviroment

Library/net cafe: I shush them, with hilarious results when shushed is a pregnant cracker in fake Uggs with another toddler in tow and a sewer for a mouth (I have grown jaded in my encounters w/functionally illiterate types in net cafes and quite honestly don't give a shit any more: TIME TO SHUT UP NOW, Mme Bovvered). If they react, I just STARE until they go properly bonkers and someone removes them.

Exception, Skypers. Although I might exhale meaningfully if they are American exchange students on an OMG tip.

suzy do you write for the Daily Mail?

hah otm - tho many an ilxor seems to have mastered this skill in a office enviroment

*whistles idly*

Thirty minute commute via two bus lines either way, between two bordering cities. Close enough to work for the commute to be short and painless, far enough away to feel like work is 'over there' when I'm home at the end of the day.

fake Uggs]

wtf?

like, made from poodle?

uggs is a brand guys

i never leave the city anymore. seriously, except for the trip to sxsw i don't think i've been out of the city of chicago since december when i was out in oak park.

Coffee shop working is the ideal for me. Although now you can't smoke it's lost some of its appeal, and libraries are starting to equal out on the goodness scale. I'm currently supposed to be working at home, and I have read/taken nots on about 20 pages in total today. Not very good at all.

*notes, dammit, notes.

so what do you say guys, should we pass a hat and buy suzy a home computer? ;)

i'm trying to study at home today. it's going rather appallingly, considering i really hoped to get a tonne done.

yesterday i managed to achieve a shitload. unrealistic expectations, perhaps.

or just TOO MUCH TIME FUCKING ABOUT. damn.

K, am posting from home now.

I guess I was angry at the mean lady because I was trying to sort something out re. dad's funeral, and when I apologised for the earlier shush she kinda blew it by saying she'd have kicked my 'ead in if she wasn't pregnant and slagged me off for being American. At which point I said I'd rather be a citizen than a subject, and who knew lardass was a pregnoid? :D

heavens.

I work in DC Monday - Thursday, then do a 4 hour (train) or 6 hour (bus) trip to Brooklyn on Thursday nights, then back to DC on Monday morning. The killer isn't the trip, but the 2 rents. Something has to change!

I refuse to have a job that I can't cycle to (preferably in 30 minutes or less if needed, perhaps an hour tops).

Best commute ever was 2-minute walk to work. Alas, that payoff for that was I had to live with people I also worked with, which is the worst thing ever.

Worst commute was three hours per day for three weeks - fuck that shit.

Commute is 45 minutes, it's killing me gas-wise. If I could have an hour and a half train ride every morning, I think I'd love it.

1 hour commute. I've been doing it for 5 years now. Gas ain't cheap -- I figure I drop $200/month on gas now -- but I'm happy with my job, which is really what matters.

Who the fuck are any of you to talk to anyone from Southern California? Motherfuckers, we are commuters BY NATURE.

Sorry. I'm at work on a Saturday. My weekend commutes remind me of how fun my car is. Weekday commutes remind me of how fuel efficient my car is. Yay my car.

I can't even describe my route to work as a commute! I suppose it is.

Longest commute I've had to drive: 1.5 hours each way, 6 days/week for 5 months. Living in Santa Rosa CA and driving every day through the vineyards and hills around Healdsburg and Calistoga, up to the geysers. Absolutely beautiful, and many spottings of wild turkeys, deer, and various other fauna kept it interesting and tolerable. I work at home for the most part now, which is great for the lack of commute and utter flexibility but has all the drawbacks posted upthread.

Sorry. I'm at work on a Saturday. My weekend commutes remind me of how fun my car is. Weekday commutes remind me of how fuel efficient my car is. Yay my car.

I keep reparsing this to find the sarcastic bitterness at working on weekends but my skills are vv weak it seems.

Sorry. I'm at work on a Saturday. My weekend commutes remind me of how fun my car is. Weekday commutes remind me of how fuel efficient my car is. Yay my car.

I keep reparsing this to find the sarcastic bitterness at working on weekends but my skills are vv weak it seems.

Do not parse. It is one, big blast of "WHY THE FUCK AM I HERE TODAY???" and should be taken as a whole.

Who the fuck are any of you to talk to anyone from Southern California London? Motherfuckers, we are commuters BY NATURE.

Who the fuck are any of you to talk to anyone from Southern California London? Motherfuckers, we are commuters BY NATURE.

This point I will cede. Having spent a few weeks there last year, y'all some serious, commutin' muhfuckers.

ideal would prob be to work in a good environment w/people u like a ten minute walk from home w/the option to work at home when you felt like it

my job is like this right now except not (yet) working at home occasionally, I think it depends on if/when the IT director buys us all new macbooks.

Southern California London. Once you get past the absolute craziness of that concept, it becomes very, very cool.

Just think about it. The tube, great Mexican food, sun, a real city life, a beach...Big Ben, Parliament.

Which weather, though?

Oh you said sun, sorry. I think I've overcommuted, brain's gone.

Actually I've done my back in putting in too much effort commuting on my bike. Idiot Mark.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LONDON WOULD BE MY DREAM, THANK YOU.

I pretty much argue just superimpose London transit on top of LA. Then I'm set.

So, obv school teachers assigning homework is just rong-headed?

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LONDON WOULD BE MY DREAM, THANK YOU.

I pretty much argue just superimpose London transit on top of LA. Then I'm set.

Yeah, but then the BROWN people might actually be able to get to Beverly Hills. What would happen, then, Ned? SHIT WOULD FALL APART!!!!!

stfu! BROWN people with seven figure incomes are very welcome in Beverly Hills, boyo.

Seriously? I'm not too sure about "welcome." "Tolerated," maybe.

Yeah, but then the BROWN people might actually be able to get to Beverly Hills. What would happen, then, Ned? SHIT WOULD FALL APART!!!!!

OH NOES!

There was a brief anecdote I just read in this book on Atlantic steamer line travel talking about how the Duke of Wellington, as UK prime minister in his later years, was not fond of railroads because they would 'encourage the lower classes to move about' or something like that.

six figures == tolerated
seven figures == welcomed

eight figures == feared
nine figures == has just bought your foreclosed mansion

nine figures == oprah

I work at home - had to give up the office to save money. For awhile my desk was next to my bed and that *sucked* then skot gave up his office for me, so at least now i work in a different room than i sleep in. I honestly much prefer having a work space outside of the house to go to.

me there

I commute 75 minutes each way on public transport -- across the city. I like my commute as I feel I am separate from work which is I guess what the person meant. I also get to read a lot of books on the commute and feel I have a real buffer zone betweeen home and work