Indeed. My alternative is to spend 10 hours a day "travelling" on Public transport (8 hours of which is waiting for a train, because all the buses stop running at 8pm, and don't start again until something like 9am the next day.
The other alternative is to take a cut in pay (over a retraining period) of hundreds of thousands of pounds, until we're back up to where we are now.
However, that's a huge waste of time, because the only jobs available close to us are call-centre (*well* known for their high pay and job satisfaction), supermarket shelf stackers, admin roles, or "retail".
The problem with the last one is that "The customer is always right" is complete bollocks.
How "The customer" ever got out of bed this morning without buttistance is a constant wonder. How "the customer" manages to breathe without constant prompting keeps me awake at night. I see a crowded high street full of shoppers, and I'm put in mind of the 1978 "Dawn of the Dead" (not that abomination of a remake) with the zombies, shambling round, bumping into each other, mumbling about "Brains".
Given we've both spent 4 years at university, followed by 10 and 15 years in-service training each, it would require serious amounts of retraining (which takes time) or a serious pay cut, I think we'll both pbutt, thanks. We both do jobs we love. And I'm not complaining about *my* travelling - it's not a problem for me in the slightest. It's a fraction of the cost of the equivalent public transport, takes a fraction of the time, and gives me some quiet time every day. Stick a relaxing CD on, put the cruise on, and drift to work & back.
Pete.
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