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I had to attend an early meeting this morning. And as I drove to the meeting my radio was tuned to the news channel from the city.
As the traffic reports came on I suddenly had to smile once more. We are blessed!
As self employed people, most of us aren't faced with a horrendous commute each day to go to work. It's one of the huge perks for me as a self employed person.
When I am ready to go to work I simply head down the stairs to my little dungeon.
Hopefully that is going to change soon. When it happens my commute to work will change drastically. At that point we will be on acreage and the 'commute' to work will involve WALKING about wa hundred feet out to the new studio/workshop.
Tough times ahead. But I think I'll manage.
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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Altogether in one week, I drive 1248 miles to work. THAT IS ONE WEEK!!! The last job I had I could walk to work. But I love my job, and the kids have to eat. Rick
-------------------- Rick Chavez Hemet, CA Posts: 1540 | From: Hemet,CA U.S.A. | Registered: Jun 2001
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mine is from the bedroom(at one end of the house) to office(small bedroom converted at the other end of house)and sometimes i go to work...na-ked!!!!! gota be real carful with the 1st hot cup-o-coffee!!!!!
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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My work and home environment is divided by one doorway. It's quite amazing the difference between the two surroundings. Each with their separate inticements.
My hope is to one day have the same situation you are building Dan. I want to have a little more of a separation, but still just a short walk between the two worlds.
I've heard folks say that having work so close at hand makes it difficult to "shut off" work. I don't have that problem. I love my home life as much as I do my work. I've also heard the complaints that you end up getting customer's at all hours. I have successfully "trained" mine to respect my home and work hours.
It's a wonderful balance, and one that seems to be a comfortable fit for me. I do feel like I've got a good thing, and am thankful for it.
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I work in Pasadena, but with dropping the kids off and picking them up, it is a little more than it would be, I average 4-5 hours of driving a day on my 3rd year of doing it. The worst part of the drive is the 20 miles away from Pasadena.
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My commute is about 75 ft. and sometimes I have to pack a lunch ( In the Winter) lol
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Since I work almost entirely mobile, I rack up some milage. I never leave the house before 9:30 and try my best to get headed home by 3:00. I also plan my route to miss all the heavy traffic. If I get a call late in the day that's gonna require me to hit a bunch of traffic, they're gonna wait til the next day.
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Nettie and Dan, I have to caution you... once your shop is actually OUTside access, it's actually effort to go there for any little thing. The thought of going outside in my jammies in the evening just to grab something from my shop is NO WAY! LOL! Shoes, get cold, unarm, unlock, lights... you have it good now!
But it is nice to have a separate shop when someone else is home. It divides your privacy and work nicely. It's easier to work when you don't hear every little explosion and commotion going on in the household.
As a side note for parents with young kids, I'd vote to have the shop inside your home until your kids are in school. I know I'd do more work when my little guy is sleeping, which is what I should be doing! I can't go out THERE in that big ol' bad dark!
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I hear you Donna about the shop being SO FAR AWAY from where one lives.
There may be some advantages however in my case.
I get a much better view (especially better than the dungeon I have now.)
I do a fair amount of welding. When the worksshop was in the basement (in Chemainus) whenever I got into it the smoke alarms would go off in the house. It would drive the dogs (and Janis crazy!
Fiberglassing and painting were noticable in the house immediately too.
The noise from my considerable array of power tools was annoying in the house too, not to mention the dust I tracked in too. Hopefully the separation of house and shop will mitigate these problems a little.
The shop and studio will share a common wall but to go between the two will require going outside and into the shop under a covered porch. This should limit the problems listed above in the studio.
It will separate out business lives from our personal lives just a little more too. Probably a good situation. When I'm at work... well I'm at work, although just across the yard. An intercom will still keep things connected and me handy for Janis.
And my 'commute' will still be manageable.
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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Commuting is such a joy. (In Seattle it is anyway.) You get to see people flip each other the bird every 2 miles...run each other off the highway....ride your ass as close as is physically possible without reaming your bumper(boy talk about being uptight!)....pull out in front of big rigs and not realize they don't stop as quickly as cars. (duh) Cheat in the HOV lane....men shave while driving.....women yack on their cell while applying makeup and shoving a donut in their face.....then there are the impulse drivers....let's change across 5 lanes because HEY!!!! THERE IS MY EXIT!!!!!!
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After 3 years living in my shop, I enjoy the 10 mile drive each way.
Kahului lies on an isthmus where the north shore & the southshore are only 7 miles apart. Coming down from the sloaps of the 10,000 ft. volcanic peak of Haleakala, I can see the West Maui Mountains straight ahead, with ocassional clouds or fog rolling through several layers of valleys. In the distance, on a clear day, I can see the island of Molokai. Over the top of the fields of sugar cane, the expanse of the Pacific fills in both sides of my view dwarfing that 7 miles isthmus so that it looks like a rogue wave could sweep away the town in an instant. I don't get on the road for sunrise very often, but sunsets sure look good from that strech of road.
But the sad truth is, amidst all that beauty, what I see most every day, is a somewhat less populated version of what Cheryl described.
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Hey Doug....it is pretty funny to watch tho huh. And fortunately Seattle has some glorious sunrises, mountains, water and sunsets to pleasantly distract from the crazy behavior of some. Posts: 3729 | From: Seattle | Registered: Sep 1999
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Yeah it can be entertaining, if you can keep out of harms way.
I've seen some of your views too. My brother lives in a houseboat on Lake Union, & even to & from the airport has impressed me with the sights, especially when Mt. Rainer pops out. I've stopped in a few winters to drag him snowboarding with me, & had a great backcountry snowshoe trip to the Olympics for some good scenery!
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I commute to the coffee shop and meet my friends (we bash our x wives)each morning at 6AM and guzzle about 6 or 8 cups of their GOOD coffee ....my coffee is horrible. The commute is 3 miles round trip.
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Hey BOB......the reason there are so many wackos here in Seattle is we have some of the strongest best coffee around. They are all buzzed big time!!!! Meeeeeeeee tooooooooooooo!
Doug. when you were visiting your brother why the hell didn't you call me. I would have bought you a cup of coffee.
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doug.....coffee beans are so much fun. I just got a blend called Bambino. spicy lively playful SPIRITED. YEAH. now with all this coffee in me......wouldn't you think I would get to WORK?? hehehehe snort. actually I AM working thank you very much. Cuttin' weedin' yappin' bizzy bizzy me.
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My commute is 28 miles a day. The reason? I bought an existing sign business. The cost of my building overhead is half of what it would be in the town I live in. I'm on a major highway, so good exposure. I know when I get home, I won't be going back until morning!!
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Yeppers,Seattle drive is so fun,lol,For awhile I worked in north seattle.The fun was the fact that I lived in Lacey(by olympia)It got real nice when The rush hour started and it took 2 hours to get from seattle to tacoma(maybe 25 miles)
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my commute is about 20 paces...thank god! i hate driving! i would rather shove bamboo shoots up under my finger nails than drive the distances some speak of. alot people love driving so they find it soothing or look at it as wind down time...depending where the location is...not seattle though
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on my 3rd year of doing it. The worst part of the drive is the 20 miles away from Pasadena.
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(In Seattle it is anyway.) You get to see people flip each other the bird every 2 miles...run each other off the highway....ride your ass as close as is physically possible without reaming your bumper(boy talk about being uptight!)....pull out in front of big rigs and not realize they don't stop as quickly as cars. (duh) Cheat in the HOV lane....men shave while driving.....women yack on their cell while applying makeup and shoving a donut in their face.....then there are the impulse drivers....let's change across 5 lanes because HEY!!!! THERE IS MY EXIT!!!!!!
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