I drive 70 min one way. I do it because I enjoy the work and it's mentally challenging. I get to help and work with the best customers there are in this state. It pays great and benefits can't be touched.
I bought a 2000 Civic and have put 150k on it with less than $1,000 in maintenance. Has 218k on it and going strong. I get paid mileage at work so it's paid for itself many times over.
45min?
I'm in Mclellanville one day and Spartanburg the next.
NPR for the early morning and Grateful Dead station the rest of the ride.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
1. I make great money.
2. I basically set my own day.
3. I enjoy not showing up to the same old place day in and day out.
4. I can catch up with friends all over the state. (Meet for lunch, pre work fishing)
5. I can listen to whole concerts and zone out then I'm home (or there)
6. I can stop by places I normally wouldn't get to, Bass Pro, Cabelas, Academy...
7. Mountains on Monday morning, salt marsh on Tuesday.
......or I could sit in the same building from 8am - 5pm everyday.
The Food!
Sometimes I'll have a grouper sandwiches on Hilton Head and then brown trout in the mountains.
I'm lucky enough to be able to schedule my own meetings or material drop offs.
I time it ahead of time and call a buddy and try to line up a fishing trip.
Meeting at 1pm in Mt Pleasant: I go down really early and fish flood tide spottails til 11:30.
Meeting in Irmo at 8:30 - go striper fishing afterwards.
Life ain't too bad on the road.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
Driving FOR your job is considerably different than driving TO your job....I put 50k a year on my trucks between work and recreating. I was more asking about the folks that drive an hour plus to work at ABC Supply or XYZ Manufacturing. The difference, in my mind, is my time starts when I leave the driveway...not after I drive an hour to work, put in the 8 or 10 hours our whatever is required, and then drive another hour back home...that turns a 9-10 hour day into a 12 hour day every single day.
Yeah, eff that.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
I did it for years. St Matt’s to Sumter and then st Matt’s to farrow rd in ne cola. Where I wanted to live was a lot more important than where my job was. Like bad habit said, just about anywhere you go in the greater Charleston area takes an hour between 700-830 and 430-600. Is it any different that you are only driving 10 miles vs 50?
Yes it is very different, at least for me.
Gridlock traffic makes me crazy. Give me an hour long 60 mile trip over an hour long 10 mile trip any day of the week.
Be proactive about improving public waterfowl habitat in South Carolina. It's not going to happen by itself, and our help is needed. We have the potential to winter thousands of waterfowl on public grounds if we fight for it.
Bought a 1998 Honda Accord a few years back and it was the best thing I could have done. Even though my drive is only 15 miles one way, I use it a lot carrying my kids to the rec center and other places around town.. My 04 z71 only gets 15 tops and this car gets 29. Also adding it to my insurance saved me 10 bucks a months(truck is through the farm).
I'm in the same group that has a commute at some point through the day that is more than an hour. Driving a company vehicle obviously helps.
I second the podcast idea with Joe Rogan. A trip from Charleston and back to Charlotte turns into two episodes instead of 6 hours.
Drive 50 miles each way. Got a 16 civic gets 40mpg. My stress level is down I think the ride helps each day
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