asking your advice
Jan. 3rd, 2013 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brushwolfHow much time I need to spend commuting is a pretty big factor in my salary requirements. It's worse now that I don't have a car (on good days yes, I can read on the bus or even draw, but on bad days I have an hour of being crowded, inactive and cranky). I'm really desperate for work, and I know I want to jump at anything out there, but the last two times I jumped at a temp job because I felt I really needed the work, it was crummy for my emotional state.
I'd like to ask for help from anyone reading, about matching salary requirements to transit times.
For reference, I live a short bus ride from the Oakland BART station, getting a bus to BART and a BART ticket is about $4 each way, $10 is the minimum wage in San Francisco proper, and I mostly work doing data entry or administrative assistant jobs which are somewhere in the $12-20 range (depending on how sleazy the hiring manager is).
Here's what I've been vaguely thinking of as guidelines;
$10-14/h for a relatively short commute, perhaps under 1 hour, for instance within Oakland or to parts of Berkeley which are easy to reach through BART.
$14-18/h for a fairly standard commute, maybe around 1 hour or more, for instance to the Financial District or deeper into San Francisco. Where I'm not sure this really works is for jobs which are around 2 hours or so each way - for instance, bus/BART accessible parts of let's say Concord, Fremont or South San Francisco.
The thing which got me thinking about this was an $18/h job in Foster City (2+ hours away each direction) which my gut feeling is a no.
Would you have any opinions about this stuff?
I'd like to ask for help from anyone reading, about matching salary requirements to transit times.
For reference, I live a short bus ride from the Oakland BART station, getting a bus to BART and a BART ticket is about $4 each way, $10 is the minimum wage in San Francisco proper, and I mostly work doing data entry or administrative assistant jobs which are somewhere in the $12-20 range (depending on how sleazy the hiring manager is).
Here's what I've been vaguely thinking of as guidelines;
$10-14/h for a relatively short commute, perhaps under 1 hour, for instance within Oakland or to parts of Berkeley which are easy to reach through BART.
$14-18/h for a fairly standard commute, maybe around 1 hour or more, for instance to the Financial District or deeper into San Francisco. Where I'm not sure this really works is for jobs which are around 2 hours or so each way - for instance, bus/BART accessible parts of let's say Concord, Fremont or South San Francisco.
The thing which got me thinking about this was an $18/h job in Foster City (2+ hours away each direction) which my gut feeling is a no.
Would you have any opinions about this stuff?
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Date: 2013-01-03 10:20 pm (UTC)Other than that, decent enough limits for under an hour.
Once you get into longer than an hour, breakfast and dinner happen during commute. That means packing it, or buying it, and in any case is a lot more hassle. Even with wifi, drawing. etc. 4&1/2 - 5 hours away (remember lunch) for an 8 hour work day gets really close to my personal 'Don't stay less than twice the transit without excellent reason' personal bother rule. (exceptions, things like caravaning to grandparents for Thanksgiving. NOT daily stuff)
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Date: 2013-01-04 09:35 am (UTC)And I would agree that if you need BART, it should be 12+. Longer than an hour for a commute is usually about my breaking point of 'this eventually makes me crazy', but that was also if I'm driving, so having to be awake and paying attention after a full workday.