fingers crossed love and karma sent. Come back and tell all later.

My karma message committed before it was written, in case you were wondering.
Hope it's a done deal.

& K sent

Is this how life works then?

In that case can people send me Karma for tomorrow's Oz Lotto?
Actually stuff that, just send me the winning numbers instead

Thanks for all the karma guys - just got back from Sydney. Interview went well. Eight other people in the frame who they're interviewing this week and they've said I'll hear next Monday. So fingers crossed.

Yes mate - there and back again. Quite useful actually since it was the actual commute done at rush hour - two hours door to door. Have done some sums though and if I am lucky enough to land the job it'd cost me about $12,250 per year in petrol alone - so instead I'd drive to somewhere like Dapto or Waterfall and get one of the express trains in. Reduces the costs to $3000 a year!

lol - cheers mate. Outcome unknown at this stage, but fingers crossed.

Glad it went well, fingers crossed for next week x

I won't bother with the karma as you've now had the interview and your future is in someone else's hands now. Hope it's good news next week.

I hope you get great news next week.

Good luck. Looking forward to seeing if all this karma stuff works or not

Best of luck - hope you get the job !

good luck

Best of luck Hutch, sounds like a fair bit of traveling but where you live does look beautiful.

How long would the commute be if you drove and got the train?

Cooler

I'm not bothered so much about the time as the cost. I've been doing my sums on this and the bottom line is it's always going to be quicker to drive. If I drove every day it would take 2 hours each way and, assuming I was in the office every day, would cost $12,245 in petrol alone.

Driving roughly half way and then getting the train drops the petrol to $6750, 180 day season ticket is $1200. Getting the train most of the way costs about $1300 a year in petrol and $1500 season ticket. So it's pretty obvious it'd have to be the train. Adds about half an hour to travel time, but the cost savings are huge.

Let the train take the strain, Hutch. My colleagues that live way out get seats on the train; they eat their breakfast, read, listen to music, have a snooze...

I'm only on it for ten minutes, 3 stops, and I stand all the way, often doing contortions to hang onto a pole, the roof, the door - whatever will keep me upright. That's unless it's so jam packed that there's no way I'd fall over.

My office is moving by the end of this year; still waiting for confirmation of where it will be but then we start house-hunting.

That's a big saving so I guess that's the best choice for you.

Good luck,
Cooler