I can't get too annoyed about the time and cost associated with travelling too and from my 'regular places of work' in my two main jobs.....
I mean I walk to work three days a week, and that's a 10 minute walk, and I drive once a week, and that's a 30 min drive, so total cost is around £10 a week including parking, and around 2 hours travel time all-in.
I am relatively well off compared to the national average... which is > £400 a month, WTAF!
Not my time!
However I do fundamentally object to the concept of paying travelling too and from work.
Travelling to work isn't my time, after all, it's really work time, so as far as I'm concerned I should really be paid for it rather than paying for it*
Especially if one is driving, that can require rather a high degree of concentration, especially if yer driving peak hours in the dark!
At the very least any expenses I occur should be tax deductible because they are work-related expenses...
This would be level to self employed status where many of my expenses (I am both self-employed and work for someone else) where I can tax deduct pretty much ALL work related expenses, I just don't get why travel is any different.
The one exception....
I've only ever worked one job where I was paid for ALL travel, and that was the GTAA surveying, only at minimum wage, but then again it's only driving, but you know nearly £12 an hour for just driving is OK and it's MUCH better than nothing!
*grammar! Note that - paid for and paying for, totally different meanings!
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