The Deep End
After two (and a half) weeks of working, I’ve deduced that there aren’t a whole lot of things to dislike about my new job. The people are intelligent, the company culture is overwhelmingly fitting, and there’s food and dogs everywhere. Though my own workload has mostly been about generating content thus far, I usually encounter something on a regular basis that is mentally stimulating about the field, so I’m not too discontent there either.
In fact, the only thing I really dislike is the commute. And I have tried just about every combination of getting to work that there is: driving vs BART + MUNI and/or company shuttle. Going home, the best way is absolutely to drive, since I don’t leave until after dinner and all the traffic has cleared out by then. It actually only takes forty minutes to get all the way back.
But going TO work in the morning? It sucks no matter what mode of transportation I take. Driving means enduring 580’s stop-and-go, a super clog on the bridge, and hunting for parking. BART is faster, but it’s more expensive than driving (since you only pay one way when driving across the bridge) and the company shuttle is always packed to the gills. Plus it means on the way home, I get an extra 20m tacked onto my commute because the return shuttle is perfectly timed to miss a Dublin/Pleasanton train, so I’m always waiting the full duration for the next one.
Also I don’t really like having to watch the clock for going home at night. Bleh.
Maybe when my standing in the company is less super noob, I can be lazy like Quad and show up after morning meetings (i.e. at friggin’ 10:30a or 11:00a)… but honestly, I kind of like being there early enough to make those. >_>
