Sounds good mate.
Are they in the right location?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 22:48, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

One is
the other works out to about 35 minutes of walking and public transport.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 22:54, Reply)

Well when you're on the ground, you might be able to find something else, especially if you've got to hear back from other agencies.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 22:57, Reply)

True dat
I figure I'll hear from other places on the way down and try and arrange something for after. But if one of these places is acceptable I'm going to try my best to stick a pin in them. Metaphorically, Jeff.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 23:11, Reply)

that's just about do-able, is it?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 26 Apr 2012, 22:57, Reply)

^ Says the person who won't get a 25 minute train journey to Bristol for work.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 22:58, Reply)

that's just to get me into Bristol!
It would be another half hour once I get there

Though mr b3th agrees with you that I should have a trial run one day.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 26 Apr 2012, 22:59, Reply)

Progress at last.
Get a rush hour train in, and another home again and spend the day with the agencies.

Make sure you've got printed copies of your C.V as well as having them on a USB stick - also, make sure it's easily accessable to e-mail it from your phone, just in case that is the only way they can accept it.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 23:01, Reply)

That would imply having appointments with agencies
and I can't get any of them to answer my emails or talk to me on the phone.

It's a buyters market out there, alright.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 26 Apr 2012, 23:06, Reply)

Well send me a list of the agencies you want to contact and I'll either add to it, or if I know anyone there
I'll drop them a line.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 23:11, Reply)

Pretty much
My worst commute was about 100 minutes by car to get to a place in Nottingham. Anything more than that I've always stayed over in the week.

At the job I've just left it was 20-25 minutes. I allow more if on public transport because you can read, but it's still "shorter the better".
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 23:09, Reply)

That's what puts me off working in Bristol.
I know it would add three hours a day to my working time, and I'd end up burning out before xmas. I've been there before, and I really don't want to spend another xmas vacillating between catatonic and hysterical.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 26 Apr 2012, 23:16, Reply)

I used to work with a lad who commuted up to Barnsley from Nottingham.
Given that he was on about £6 an hour, I thought he was mad. What with the price of car maintenance, insurance and petrol he probably couldn't have broken even.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 26 Apr 2012, 23:24, Reply)

Mate, you ever lived in London?
You shouldn't ever have to walk more than 10 minutes to a tube station if you don't want to, 90% one of them will have (inside your price range) somewhere good tempoary to live 'till you can get what you want. I've never been on the tube for long than an hour and a half, two max, and thats going from the two furthest points (cockfosters to Heathrow).

To give you an idea, it takes 40 mins to go from cockfosters to holbern, which is around half way across london.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 0:01, Reply)

And once you're in the tube, you're on it, get an ipod or a book out, and it doesn't matter how long it takes.
It takes me just over an hour to get into work and I don't think anything of it.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 0:01, Reply)

Thats 15 minutes of textin/interneting, then being on the underground and its one TV Show that i've downloaded.
No big deal at all.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 27 Apr 2012, 0:02, Reply)