scrabbler1
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That sounds pretty similar to my experience. I generally enjoyed my positions very much, but that commute to LA just plain sucked. I still have nightmares just thinking about it. Sometimes it added as much as five hours to my day. That's almost like a whole extra job in itself.
If we ever invent the bullet train to LA that gets me there in 15 minutes, I just may reconsider all of this.
I remember telling the HR flunkie who did my long exit interview that I was so burnt out from the commute that even if they offered me my old telecommute deal which included 1 day a week on the trains to NJ I would have turned it down. It was a non-starter because they had ended all open-ended telecommuting 5 years earlier. I would have considered a one-day-a-month going to NJ if they also let me buy into their group health plan, even at 100% of premiums (another non-starter from their side).
I once told some friends when I began the telecommute deal, "They can have my mind, but not my body!"