Commute time: 2 hours (total)
Way I commute to work:
- walking (15 minutes)
- subway (25 minutes)
- bus or walking (10-20 minutes)
Ways I cope with commuting: I usually listen to audio books / podcasts or music. Sometimes I also aimlessly browse my phone :D
What do you do?
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Ooph, an hour each way is rough. Are you driving, or taking the train, or something else?
My commute is about 15 minutes currently, but used to be about 30 mins. Back then I got a lot more podcasting done
Updated the post to include the way I commute. 15 minutes is great!
10 minutes walking from home to the train station. 20 minutes train ride. 5 minutes walk to the office.
In the train I check my Twitter feed for interesting articles/posts since my last commute. (and Dev.to if there's time left)
If there are big articles to go through I just bookmark them to read in the office or at home.
I don't have access to the Internet while on train :(
I work from home now, but I'm still a podcast addict after years of commuting.
Approx 50mins each way via walking and train.
Time is spent listening to podcasts, reading books (fiction), scrolling through twitter and day dreaming.
A pair of noise cancelling headphones has been a great addition!
About an hour and a half sometimes less, on a bus not a traditional one but anyways. I listen to podcasts that I previously downloaded, catch up with things on twitter, and do the lessons for a Portuguese course I have.
I’m mostly remote! That said, I rented a small office in my home town. That allows me to “reset” my brain twice a day compared to fully working from home. Taking a break when working from home is also more difficult and I didn’t like that.
So all in all:
What I enjoy very much when traveling to our HQ is that I get to listen to music or podcasts along the way. Commute time in home town is simply too short!
Which town is it? Sounds like a very bike friendly one!
Gouda in The Netherlands. (Internationally famous for its cheese and old town hall).
And yes, extremely bike friendly! But I’d say all cities and towns in The Netherlands are! Even the biggest ones like Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
Listen to podcasts while being half-asleep in the morning.
I used to listen to comedy podcasts but now I switched to more techy ones starting strong with Darknet Diaries!
If I had a good night's sleep I usually read books and listen to music without lyrics so it doesn't distract me.
Commute time: 4 hours
Way I commute: walking, taxi, bus(40 min) and taxi in the morning
walking, bus, tram train, bus(40 min), walking in the evening
Ways I cope: it depends on my mood: it might be music, reading (tech or fiction), watching talks, series, standup, browsing Dev.to,twitter, medium or StackOverflow :p
And I thought mine was long... For how long have you been doing this?
hhhhh a year and a half, surprisingly I got used to it, I kinda go back and forth between two cities that's why it's a pretty long commute
I just don't like living and working in the capital city
After nearly 3 hours of commuting per day (for 2 years).
55 minutes each train route plus 25 minutes walking.
I got insanely tired (having a 2 year old at the time helped a lot) and now I am living a dream with just 20 minutes walking....no enough time to even get lost on my thoughts
I went from 10 minutes walking to 1 hour (one-way)... Good that you managed to change it ;)
My commute is only 15 minutes, but I usually read articles on dev and listen to music