Was approached by an agent last week. No, not of the footballing type, though I reckon I could still do a job in our midfield, all I lacked to make it to the top was pace, nous, positional sense etc.
No, it was in the procurement field, the role ticked all the right boxes, money, pension, holiday, close to central london head of a department for a uni. Sounded good. What's the catch I started thinking. I soon found out, it if with goldsmiths in new cross. Having worked in the area for a number of years, even if it was over 20 years ago now, I think I might pass on that one. The nearest I will get to there again is if I drunkenly agree to a night in the venue (is it still going). But the thought of working in
That shite hole sends shivers up my spine.
Coming in from the Kent coast I would have to get a train in to london and back out again.
So who has the worst commute? I am currently Hythe on the Kent coast to charing cross, but it is a direct train from 5 minutes drive away and a 10 minute walk from charing cross so not too bad.
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JC - You must be mad! Fit but mad!
Get the 8.05 normally from Ebbsfleet. Are you parking at the station? It's not cheap!
Across the river estuary, I get picked up by a colleague and whizzed off to an office close to the moors.
To think I used to commute from Welling and Bromley to London. I really miss it.
PS: Definition of a fast train: One that stops between stations instead of at them.
yeah, some of us love it round here...
ok, maybe not love, but its got allot going for it!
You must be crazy ......!
That's one hell of a long day.
;o)
Very much so, Offy.
It's wonderful on a Summer's morning ...... but very different in the dark in December or in rain lashed January winter gales.
Front door - walk to bus stop
Bus to East Croydon
Train to Victoria
Tube to Oxford Circus
Walk to office
70 minutes each way - but it feels like five hours
;o)
Interestingly Steve - the recruitment agency I work for filled that role on an interim basis last week !
Leave my flat on Hogarth Crescent, Croydon - 06.30
Arrive West Croydon Station - 06.40
Board the stopping service to London Bridge - 06.45
Change trains at London Bridge - 07.15
Arrive Charing Cross - 07.30
Walk to office in Oxford Street and arrive at 7.50.