Commuting
So I spent the greater part of today driving home, after 3 years of studying in city six hours away from my family it was time to come home. Six hours in a car is always really boring and it makes me appreciate the importance of avoiding commuting. I can’t imagine myself driving an hour a day to get to work, and my preference will always be to live closer to work, or work at a different place.
Having a house that is really far away from where you “live” (Where you spend most of your time) is an inconvenient home.
The bit that annoys me is that the time spent commuting is wasted. If you dedicate an hour a day, every day for a year to any activity you will become pretty proficient at it; if this theoretical activity is a marketable skill (Say Poker) the opportunity cost of commuting is huge. There is so much money that future you could be making off the skill you developed rather than sitting in a car.
The only way I can imagine that utilises time spent in the car is to listen to educational podcasts or audio-books. But even that can be done while eating breakfast, so the benefit is negligible.
I guess my adverse taste to commuting is why I am finding it so hard to get a job (I am so damn picky), especially considering that most of the graduate jobs in my industry are concentrated in the capital cities. Irregardless this is not an area that I am willing to compromise in (My ideal is a job walking distance from home).
Commuting really is just detrimental to living.
Strikee 