I may get to choose:
1. Long commute + high money + cool math work
2. short commute + fine money + scrum work (scrum is good)
3. commute to the heart of DC + fine money + antiquated technical work
4. variable commute + fine money + scrum work (scrum is good)
Maybe a fifth, but they've gone dark. So who knows.
Whatcha think?
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Is scrum a bad thing? Because my gut says go for the job where you'll enjoy the work the most. Longer commute and better money kinda cancel each other out in my mind.
ReplyDeleteScrum is a very good thing.
ReplyDelete#2, life only gets shorter. How much of it do you want to spend commuting?
ReplyDelete2 and 4 sound good. I don't know how you feel about long commutes but I don't know if the money from 1 is very motivating for you.
ReplyDelete2. Value your time first and foremost, especially if you can be ok on that money.
ReplyDeleteHow long is a long commute?
ReplyDeleteSean Leventhal Metro says over 60 minutes. I can probably find a way to make that ~40 minutes, but by having conversations and it'll be brittle -- a single problem, and it's all fucked.
ReplyDeleteThe short commute's also have a variety of ways to do the commute.
Cool math work would weigh strongly for me. But that is a long commute.
ReplyDeleteAlso: Commuting to the heart of DC is kinda a good thing.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Sean Leventhal. My real problem with long commutes isn't the best-time, but the brittleness. They break real easy, because they depend on so many things.
ReplyDeleteI mean... At least if it is metro you can read? Do any of them support partial telework?
ReplyDeleteMetro + Bus.
ReplyDeleteThe short commute + fine money is a quick bus metro, or a metro ride, or an easy uber.
And, to be clear: No offer has yet been made. I think one will be next week, and doing the thinking is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteDoes "scrum is good" mean you like scrum or they're actually doing scrum well? Because I'm skeptical of being able to judge the latter from an interview and seems important if doing scrum work?
ReplyDeletePatty Kirsch It just means that I like scrum.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah I would consider scrum work to be highly dependent on coworkers, do you have any chance to feel that out?
ReplyDeleteAlso have you actually ridden the metro but with any regularity? I had to do it for a few weeks and it was not good.
I ride metro everyday, Patty Kirsch. We can see the metro from our window. We're metro people. :-)
ReplyDeleteHad a phone interview with them, Patty Kirsch, but hopefully I'll learn more about them in an in person.
ReplyDeleteI know that dude, but the bus is ime a rather different animal.
ReplyDeleteYeah. The good commute job could be by bus or metro, and the bus is an express ART bus that i already ride every day. It's delightful.
ReplyDeleteThe long commute would be, i think, Metro + Uber. Which kinda sucks.
Fuck long commutes. Especially if there are multiple parts. If you have the luxury of not having a long commute - take it.
ReplyDeleteYes, but: The financial difference is huge.
ReplyDeleteI mean a big financial difference can change the practicality of having a car, which also changes the commute math
ReplyDeleteI am a bad driver and should not drive on the beltway during rushour. Ever.
ReplyDeleteBut, yeah, in principle I agree with you -- I just got issues.
To me, cool math work sounds the best. Scrum/agile/whatever is completely hit and miss. It's always the luck of the draw whether the project management experience is good or bad, even within a single organization usually.
ReplyDeleteA long commute that doesn't involve driving is pleasant for me, but then I haven't done it in a long time so it's something I miss. Having a couple hours of "me" time is also something I miss, so...
absolutely 1. long bus commutes before and after work are useful. (as someone who has done hour-and-a-half commutes to work before on the regular)
ReplyDeleteWhen we moved to a small town in the middle of Amish country, commute was one of our biggest considerations. We are an hour from the city by train. But we are a block from the train station in our town, and Jeremy works at the train station in Philly, so it's a clean shot. One hour of sitting comfortably in a reclining Amtrak bucket seat is much better than 45 minutes of a multi-step public transit shlep.
ReplyDeleteJust affirming that yes, the type of commute matters greatly.
Agreed. I've had a variety of commutes. I haven't, as a working professional, had a walking commute. Closest I've been is three miles, and would often walk home.
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ReplyDeleteWhy, Robert Bohl?
ReplyDelete1 = Long commute = dead time, stolen from you pointlessly and with you unable to do anything, only sitting unheathily
ReplyDelete2 = All upside (not as "up" as 1 moneywise, but you've made it clear lost of money doesn't matter)
3 = Don't know the length of commute but sounds longer, but also sounds like work you wouldn't enjoy.
4 = No upside compared to 2
I like money! I can donate it!
ReplyDeleteRight, but it's clearly bottom priority. So I figured short commute is the highest-priority signal available given that the work is relatively equal or worse.
ReplyDeleteIt's valid, given the information you have.
ReplyDelete(4) is a cool company that I'm a fan of. It'd let me try a bunch of different things. The work may actually be the 2nd best, after the cool math work with the bad commute.
I had another thought about 60+ minute commute. For myself, I'd prefer such a long commute over something in the 20-40 minute range. Such a shorter time is not enough time to get in the groove of writing or even reading. It may not even be adequate time to watch a TV show or something.
ReplyDeleteOf course, it's different with commuting by car, since you can't read/write while driving. But with bus/metro, I wouldn't find 60+ minutes to be a "waste" of time. It could easily be some of the most productive time, for hobbies I care about.
Isaac Kuo I read The Counte of Monte Cristo thanks to a 90+ minute commute. I do not want that long a commute again. I could do nothing else.
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