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First Name:
alicia

Last Name:
huntley

Email Address:
ahuntley@interserv.com

Telephone Number:
715-1294

Home Town / City:
concord

Home State:
nh

Home Zip Code:
03303

I Work Mainly From Home:
No

Work Town / City:
nahsua

Work State:
nh

Work Zip Code:
03060

1-way Time to Work in Minutes:
55

1-way Distance to Work in Miles:
43

How Often Do You Commute?:
4 days a week

Rate Your Commute:
It's something I'd really like to get rid of

I'm in a profession (certified nurse-midwife) where there are very few jobs open at any given time. Hence the commute. The other midwife in my practice commutes from Keene to Nashua which in winter gets really bad. My husband's job is even more unique and requires that we live fairly close to the main work site so as to minimize his travel time to other work sites. So I commute. I've had worse commutes - in Oregon I commuted 65 miles one way (1 1/2 hours) through an area with zero cell phone or pager signal for about 30 minutes. In Southern CA it was bad, too, but at least there they had decent public transit as long as you had work hours that fit the bus and train schedules. If there were trains or busses that I could use, I would. But I'm stuck in the car. Most days I get home around 7 PM and it is a real stress to try to cook good food and eat healthily under this kind of stress. Homemaking and housekeeping suffer too. With a long commute and a high stress job it becomes necessary to prioritize life really tightly, and I really resent that at times.
It isn't often all that easy to find work and housing that are congruent, especially when you are looking at two somewhat esoteric occupations. Maybe teachers and office workers can do it better.