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Coindexter

EVERYTHING!

I have essentially stopped buying coins for the time being. I have a new job which requires 3 hours of commute time each day. This cuts out 90% of the time I used to spend looking at coins. Also, as of now, I make the same money but spend a lot more on working. The coin budget is basically gone. Oddly, the result of having neither the time nor money to go after coins has resulted in me thinking about them even more. At least I can be sure I won't be starting one of those "I've lost interest in collecting" threads.

Tarmac

I have a new job which requires 3 hours of commute time each day.

Why? I hope you are younger because that will make you old fast!

relayer

I need those too!

I can't imagine commuting 3 hours a day. I'd move closer to work if I were you. I walk about 25 feet to my office and if I can't think of any way to make some money that day, I walk 25 feet back home and take the rest of the day off to play with my coins.

Coindexter

Tarmac, I'm young enough to take it, but old enough to know it's no good. If I don't get what I want out of it within six months I'm history.

Relayer, I don't know what you do or how you managed to get it that way, but sign me up.

carl

Never could figure out why anyone would want to commute that much per day. Someone once told me to take the total amount of hours per day for working, add non paid luches, commuting time, even your get ready to go to work and and undoing that when you et back home. Add up all those hours and divide that into how much you make per day. You may be making $1/hour. Quit work, collect unemployment, go to all the coin shows, play with your coin collection and forget the worries of the working class.

Cladiator

3 hours is tough. Are you talking 3 hours one way or round trip? I'm doing about 2.5 hours round trip and it's not too bad.

BulletBiter

The only real advantage I found to the long daily commute, 2 – 2.5 hours round trip. Books on tape, have gone through many of them. Unfortunately there is not a wide selection of numismatic books this way.

Oddly, the result of having neither the time nor money to go after coins has resulted in me thinking about them even more.

I would agree with that.

Coindexter

Cladiator, it's about three hours round trip. All told I'm working 14 hour days with every other week being a six day work week. It's crazy, but my instincts tell me I'll soon be in charge, so it's worth it.

BulletBiter, books on tape didn't even occur to me. I'll have to start looking into that.

PerryHall

<< <i>Cladiator, it's about three hours round trip. All told I'm working 14 hour days with every other week being a six day work week. It's crazy, but my instincts tell me I'll soon be in charge, so it's worth it.

BulletBiter, books on tape didn't even occur to me. I'll have to start looking into that. >>



Does Breen's Encyclopedia come on tape?

JRocco

<< <i>Never could figure out why anyone would want to commute that much per day. Someone once told me to take the total amount of hours per day for working, add non paid luches, commuting time, even your get ready to go to work and and undoing that when you et back home. Add up all those hours and divide that into how much you make per day. You may be making $1/hour. Quit work, collect unemployment, go to all the coin shows, play with your coin collection and forget the worries of the working class. >>



Then tell the wife and kids they are on their own.....child labor for the kids...prostitution for the wife....tell them to do whatever....
Trade the house in for a trailer, the car in for a pair of skates, nice dinners at home in for a couple of Hershey bars.... you get the idea.
In fact I may do this myself.... why commute to work when I can just prostitute the wife....GREAT ADVICE...!

Why oh why did my mother always tell me when I was a kid to do WHATEVER I have to do for my family....

Cladiator

3 hours round trip isn't all that bad man. It's long but trust me it could be worse. I find it nice actually just to be alone for a while. Alone time is hard to come by while at work or at home. I actually look forward to the drive and veggin' out with the radio and my thoughts (mosly about coins).

PerryHall

<< <i>In fact I may do this myself.... why commute to work when I can just prostitute the wife... >>



Got any pictures of the wife?

coinnut86

I'm sure it helps save money in the long run. Even with gas on the rise, property taxes and what not are probably much higher where he works than from where he lives. I commute 2 hours every other day for school, and it saves me a ton by not paying for rent or dorms. Gas is cheaper where I go to school than here at home, so it almost saves me double in a sense. I'll probably be moving out this fall, it just depends where I'm at financially.

I also have neighbors that moved next door last year who lived and worked in west Omaha. They specifically moved here to save money in the housing area, and continue to commute. They were able to buy a much bigger house here and be able to actually afford it. I just feel bad for there kids, because they never really get to see them. The two older ones go to school here, and go home after school to the big empty house, and youngest goes with them to a daycare in west O. The parents aren't ever there in the morning when the two kids wake up, and often dont get home until after 7:00 I've never seen anyone else leave or enter the house, but that's the part that bothers me the most.

Best of luck in whatever you decide to do!