How do you think young people spend two hours commuting to work in big cities, and time is always "on the road"?

From the third-tier cities to the new first-tier cities in the second month of work, I gradually developed the habit of taking a nap.

There is a simple reason. The company is scheduled to go to work at 9: 30, but I have to get up at 8: 00 an hour and a half earlier to tidy myself up. Just tinkering for a few minutes, I went out to start a bus+subway trip to work.

In order to clock in on time and not be late, the time for washing breakfast every day should not exceed 10 minutes. They only took two bites and rushed out.

Coffee every night has made me immune, and it seems that the effect is not as obvious as before. I get home at 8 o'clock in the evening, and I have to continue working.

You can go to bed before 12 o'clock if you are in good condition, but under normal circumstances, you basically need to do a little to sleep well. In the company, you can only sleep for one hour during lunch break to ensure normal sleep time every day.

Long commuting time is a unique symbol of big cities. Commuting for more than two hours is nothing new, because there are many people who go to work across cities, and the commuting time from Hangzhou, where they live, is at least not as serious as that from Beishangguang.

According to the Test Report on Commuting Time Consumption of Major Cities in China, among the 1 00000 people in 36 major cities in China, the commuting time for a single commute exceeds1hour, which is the current situation of most workers in big cities, and the commuting time for each person to go to work is basically more than 2 hours a day.

Long commuting time, plus the original working hours, plus overtime. In this way, it is not difficult for us to understand why many migrant workers working in big cities have a two-point line between their companies and their beds, because commuting+normal working hours alone have already taken up most of the day, plus basic sleep time, and they basically have no time of their own.

Accurately speaking, there is no time for you, and you are not so tired.

For migrant workers living in big cities, everyone thinks that 45 minutes commuting time should be an upper limit. After all, if they commute for more than an hour, they will not only feel a waste of time, but also do it every day, and many people say they can't stand it.

However, the reality is that only 69% of people in cities like Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen commute within 45 minutes, and 3 1% is almost 1 hour and 1 hour.

Long-distance commuting tests the patience of young people

Before I came to Hangzhou, my first thought was this:

"It doesn't matter if the commute time is long. I can read books on the subway and make full use of this time. "

But after working for 1 month, I found myself thinking too simply. Like many people, everyone thinks that this long commute should be made good use of, at least not wasted, but the reality is that in such an environment, you can't do anything conducive to growth with this fragmented time at all.

When people get up and down, everyone is in a hurry. From time to time, they will pop up a strange face or back, and may accidentally wipe off your mobile phone and schoolbag.

Everyone was crowded into a big iron box. When you are lucky, you can have a seat to rest for a while, but it is normal to have no place to take out your mobile phone from your pocket. You can only let this time pass in vain.

At first, you were full of beautiful expectations for this period of time and felt that you could make full use of it.

But the reality is that you listen to pop music, chat and even play games all the way.

In order to finish the work assigned by the boss in time and save a few dollars to catch the last bus, you should continue to take out the computer work from your bag when you get on, get off and turn on the computer. When you see this city at one o'clock in the morning, you will feel that this is what it feels like to work in this city.

It's not that I never thought about living closer to the company, but when I saw the monthly rent increase of nearly 2000 yuan, I really let myself get away with it, saving an hour's journey, which means that two-thirds of my salary will be contributed to the landlord, and with my current ability, my 1 hour is not so valuable.

No matter how expensive the coffee at the desk is, it can't compare with the rent of 2000 yuan a month. Perhaps this is the most suitable reason for getting used to commuting for a long time. It is also the torment of a long commute and the best psychological comfort.

Of course, in addition to being a person who puts money first, some people will also bear high living costs because of their hobbies.

My friend A Hao is a pet lover. Because the previous landlord didn't allow him to keep pets at home, he had no choice but to move and find a new job.

After searching for a house for two months, I was lucky to find a place close to his new company and moved to a new house, but it was followed by an extra monthly rent of 1500 yuan. His monthly salary was more than 6,000 yuan, which made the already poor life worse.

Later, he bought a bicycle card for 1 month directly, because the commute time is 5 minutes, the journey time is shorter, and he can say hello to his cat at work every day, which is a little happiness and existence for his life.

There are many reasons why young people who work in big cities move to other places to live. Most of them are blocked by reality, but the faster they develop, the faster the pace of life and work. In big cities, many people's emotional needs are often ignored because they are exhausted just to deal with the above things.

Core commercial office buildings take away young people's daytime, high-intensity work and fast-paced life, which makes many young people tired of coping with all kinds of difficulties and obstacles in reality and gradually ignores or even covers up their emotional needs, because this city has no responsibility to provide spiritual comfort for young people who have no money.

Spend an hour at work and let's look at the hidden costs behind it.

If time goes back 10 years, maybe there are not so many subways in the city, maybe we can slowly open a book on the bus to read.

However, in today's accelerated urbanization process, it may be difficult to even free up your hands during rush hour.

There is a saying used to describe the beautiful urban office workers nowadays:

"Either at work or on the way to work."

The word "on the road" has already become the normal life of migrant workers. "On the road" is no longer a state of describing inspirational efforts, but it makes people more afraid.

In order to live as close as possible to the company, my former colleague Gao Jiawen simply found a house that was 2000 yuan higher than the original rent.

Working hours are shortened every day, and you can almost walk to the company, but the quality of life is declining, because rent accounts for nearly two-thirds of your income. Gao Jiawen has changed from ordering takeout every day to cooking jiaozi at lunchtime.

In order to shorten working hours, the price he paid almost made him put an end to all entertainment activities. I used to go out to eat with my good friends for a week or half a month, but now I dare not go out to eat. I restrain my desire to shop and only buy necessities.

And because I live near the company, I often meet all kinds of "help" and squeezing from my colleagues and bosses on the grounds of being close at hand:

"You are close to the company, can you go to the computer and copy a document for me?"

"You live near the company, so it's no problem to keep more jobs. Just give me the plan as soon as possible."

Living far away and commuting for a long time may kill many young people's own time, whether on the way to work or on the way to work, but living near also provides an objective and realistic reason for "convenient overtime". It seems that young people working in big cities are destined to be "on the road", "at work" and "working overtime" all the time.

What's even more frightening is that with the appearance of various online punch-in and attendance tools that seem to help enterprises and employees work better, they have woven a big net and devoured everyone's free time after work bit by bit.

Don't dare to miss the news in the group after work, and don't return to the news of the group leaders for one minute. There will be a mandatory resignation notice on the desk tomorrow, asking you to be online at any time and reply at any time, so that everyone has their own time, but not freedom.

The length of commuting time is one of the indicators to evaluate the happiness of urban life. For young people, if they want to turn over and attack their lives, they still need to go to big cities to make a living and work hard.

In fact, many people know in their hearts that if they choose to work hard in big cities, they must accept the disadvantages brought about by urban development, and the longer commuting time is a reality that they have to accept.

But from another point of view, although it is reasonable that the development and expansion of the city lead to long commuting time for office workers, should we also start to consider how to shorten the commuting time for everyone as much as possible after the commuting time has grown into a normal phenomenon in a city? After all, this is not an unsolvable problem.

In fact, for most people who work in big cities, everyone is sacrificing their health, off-duty time and rest time to pay for this long commute in exchange for lower living costs and maintaining their quality of life as much as possible.

With the expansion of the employed population, the living area can only be reduced and more expensive, and the elephant of commuting has become more and more noticeable.

Besides asking young people to be "willing to endure hardships", should a prosperous, fair and sustainable big city do more for these people who are crowded in carriages?

Everyone has sacrificed almost all their entertainment time, hoping that this pain will be rewarded. I hope that when I take life seriously, life will not deceive myself in turn.