Started a new job yesterday. I am back in the position of learning from scratch.
This new company has a strong emphasis on the organizational culture:
And more…
I can tell from the tools and the code base that the company has roots deep into the C/C++ Eco system, despite the work itself being in JavaScript. This means different tools and mindset then in most other JavaScript places I encountered.
Something I’ll have to get used too.
But the mind boggling thing to me is the commute time.
2.5 hours for each direction. 5 hours a day. Half a day goes for every workday.
Yes I know it before I took the job, but knowing is not the same as feeling. Yesterday was the first day in a long while where I haven’t seen any of my kids awake at all. I left before they woke up, and came back after they already fall asleep. Why this morning I left only after I saw them leaving for their day.
I rolled out a car since for it will be Russian Roulette with almost fully loaded gun.
I know I will fall asleep on the wheel. The only questions are when it will happen, and how badly I’ll be hurt.
This leaves public transportation, that is less then friendly.
Home to bus station - same as with my previous work, mostly by car when my wife drop off the kids.
Bus to the train station - same as with the previous work. Sadly the bus usually arrive just as the train leaves so I have to wait for the next one.
Train to a more central station,where I’ll wait for the train that will get me to work
Train to train station closest to work
bus or shuttle to work
And the ride home is the same in reverse.
I just realized I forgot to measure the times for each segment. I’ll do it in the next few days and report it.
There are mitigating factors.
I can start the work on the train. Most days there is enough space to work. I have the laptop with everything I need on it. I just need to organize it, something I plan to do this week.
This should give about 90 min of offline work in each direction.
I plan to improve the first and last parts by moving back to the bike.
A new train station is planned closer to my work that will eliminate one step from this route.
The real mitigator is, working from home. I do not plan on working totally from home, history thought me thus is problematic for me, but a few days a week will be great.
I am rewriting this post, more annoyed then I was when I first wrote it, since I lost it over network issue along the way. Mobile is not a good enough tool, yet.