I commute to and from school on a bus and I just enjoy listening to music during the journey and looking outside the window
I fail to see how you can be happy being packed into trains like cattle, forced to buy tickets before you get on wasting further time. It's not a nice feeling waiting in a queue at a ticket office or a ticket machine to get a piece of paper that tells you that you just spent £15.40 to travel 30 miles a day
I love my ~hour long bus commute. I get to read and chill and I don't feel like I am being lazy or anything because I'm on my way and there's nothing I can do about how long the bus takes.
It's like a safe zone for me.
Hahaha, bullshit.
I have to travel 40 min from Bella Vista to Buenos Aires in train. I hope you guys never have to take one of the trains here. The nearest bus stop to my University is 40 blocks away so that's another 40/60 min (depending on luck) in Bus from the train station....
And yet I arrive fresh as water.
LOL, im not "happy", neither "angry or anxious", im just "0 fucks given"
[QUOTE]I think having the privacy and familiarity of a car makes it a lot less stressful for me.
[/QUOTE]
Not so for me. I prefer to someone else to drive for me rather than be constantly paying attention to traffic lights, other cars, pedestrians, etc etc.
I think the main thing is how you approach the commuting, if you make yourself feel like you're being packed in like cattle instead of taking it as some time for reflection, of course you're gonna have a bad time :v:
It's a nice period of relaxing for me, commuting ~two hours per day.
I think commuting is relaxing. :)
Unless they're on strike.. but i managed to avoid the hassle last week and get on a totally empty train at rush hour :v:
I love the bus, just watching all the places go by. Whenever I've moved to a new city, the first things I do is take all the buses nearby to get a feel for what stores I can easily get to.
It's even worse when the bus/train is jam packed and it's dark outside.
I had to deal with that constantly when going back and forth from College. It always put me in a bad mood when I got home in the end.
Obviously? Commuting goes hand in hand with Work unless you are lucky to be in a job you actually really do get gratification from.
In the morning your leaving a place you want to be, to go to a place you don't want to go, to do something you don't really want to do for about 8 hours.
In the evening the longer it takes to get home the less time you get to spend doing stuff you actually want to do.
It's hardly surprising really.
Last year I had a 2 hour commute each way to my tafe (college) classes, my phone would only just make it through the trip, I even bought a portable charger just so I wouldn't go nuts on the train. This year, I'm living on campus at Uni, maybe a 5 minute walk from any of my classes, love it.
I jam out on my 30 minute drive to work. It's not really a commute but it's great to listen to some good music before a day of work.
I love driving, I just put on a audio book and i'm in another world~
I don't mind commuting. Like others have said it's kind of peaceful (for the most part). I just hate missing the bus.
[QUOTE=Zeb Brown;43890606]I love driving, I just put on a audio book and i'm in another world~[/QUOTE]
should be concentrating on the road
It takes me 13 minutes to get to uni and 6 minutes to get to work v:v:v
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;43885405]Sometimes I get the chav cunts on the bus makes it pretty bad.
Plus because its only a single-decker bus it's always, always rammed.[/QUOTE]
this post is incredibly british
OI MATE THE BUS ISNT A DOUBLE DECKA ITS RAMMED
im crying
[QUOTE=Egevened;43891148]this post is incredibly british
OI MATE THE BUS ISNT A DOUBLE DECKA ITS RAMMED
im crying[/QUOTE]
blOODY CHAV CUNTS M8
[QUOTE=Sword and Paint;43886907]I fail to see how you can be happy being packed into trains like cattle, forced to buy tickets before you get on wasting further time. It's not a nice feeling waiting in a queue at a ticket office or a ticket machine to get a piece of paper that tells you that you just spent £15.40 to travel 30 miles a day[/QUOTE]
I get free train travel on any Queensland Rail train so I never see it as a problem
Also if I don't have my card on me I just pretend I do to get free train travel, the dumb cunt train inspectors never hop on
I'm so glad I've got my licence. To get to work via public transport it's an hour and a half, but to drive it's 20 minutes straight down the coast road.
Communiting, especially via public transport is pretty terrible. I always hated it.
[QUOTE=AK'z;43890632]should be concentrating on the road[/QUOTE]
Good thing I don't use my ears to see where I'm driving.
This is why New Yorkers are the way they are. The ones taking the bus or train are usually on a long and uncomfortable commute, and they get caught in this kind of trance. They get a sort of tunnel vision which causes them to just focus on getting from point A to point B, and when you abruptly knock them out of it, they become very irritated. It makes them just block out everything and pay attention to which stop to get off at, where to get a transfer, and so on. I should know, I'm one of them.
Commuting isn't all that bad really, my bus rides to school take half an hour, but I just spend all that time either meeting new people on the bus or talking to some of my friends who also take the same bus as me. Even if I had my own car, I'd still enjoy it because I'd be out of the house and I get to enjoy the sights. I get more anxious being inside for long periods of time instead of outside. I don't know how some people do it.
[editline]13th February 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Fr3ddi3;43890394]Obviously? Commuting goes hand in hand with Work unless you are lucky to be in a job you actually really do get gratification from.
In the morning your leaving a place you want to be, to go to a place you don't want to go, to do something you don't really want to do for about 8 hours.
In the evening the longer it takes to get home the less time you get to spend doing stuff you actually want to do.
It's hardly surprising really.[/QUOTE]
Well you don't have to be lucky to get into the job you want, if it's something you spent years working to get into, you should probably enjoy being at your job. I'm actually surprised with how many people I know who are in their 30's who despise their jobs despite the fact they put all that effort to get into something they wanted to get into. Kind of makes me wonder why a lot of people are in that position, but that's probably why I'm avoiding my life becoming like this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4KfJztaJ5I[/media]
It would help if the buses weren't always late 10-30 minutes and if there were enough of them. I don't get to sit down at all on my 45-minute ride home from work. I get to sit down on the way TO work though, because I get on from one of the first stops.
I take a 7:00AM bus to work that starts at 8:00AM.
I would love to get a car but there is seriously nowhere to park it, even my co-workers who DO have a car come by bus. Couple of them got so frustrated of the buses sucking ass that they bike to work, from 9-40km away. I'm considering that myself, I only live ~20km away.
Those awful days when you try to get from Joyce to Stadium in 15 minutes but assholes keep holding the doors.
Life sucks when you don't have a vehicle. If you drive, commuting is so much better since you get a feeling of privacy.
[QUOTE=Profanwolf;43889715]I think the main thing is how you approach the commuting, if you make yourself feel like you're being packed in like cattle instead of taking it as some time for reflection, of course you're gonna have a bad time :v:
It's a nice period of relaxing for me, commuting ~two hours per day.[/QUOTE]
Probably something like this. My commute is something like 90 min one way, split between bus and train. The bus is pretty often packed so there it's just stand here and pass time, while the train is usually pretty good so i can get out that 1500 page course book and read, or more normally just dick around on my phone
Honestly it's ok for me to have an hour or even two of commuting in a confortable bus or train or something. I can just listen to some music or read and relax. But yeah, if you live in a big city and all you can use to get home is an overcrowded subway like ours, even an hour can turn into a torture.
[QUOTE=Jalict;43885163]I've like 2 hours of commuting to my University (One-way). It sucks pretty bad having to get up 5AM in the morning to get to lecture at 8AM.[/QUOTE]
I'm in the exact same situation except now I can't even get into any classes before 9:30 because the trains are completely idiotic for a 1 hour journey. There's a train at 6:25, then one at 8:09 that gets me in late. If there was one in the middle, I'd be fine but no. I completely understand the anxiousness related to commuting.
My morning commute is relaxing for me.
I had to commute for 2 years of University. 5 hours a day.
And because of the way my timetable was, sometimes I would have to commute 5 hours for a 1 hour lecture. That's it. 1 hour then go back home. Other times I would have a lecture at 9am and not have another until 3 or 4pm and that would suck.
I just took out loans and now I live on campus and I love it. I only have to pay back 150 a month, and its totally worth it. I love being in debt.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.