Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Parking

I can't explain how good it feels to arrive to a job that has free parking. During the beginning of my apprenticeship I worked mostly in Virginia and Rockville, MD where most of the time the parking was free so I didn't realize how lucky I was at the time. Since I've transferred and a little bit before that I've been working mainly and DC and parking has basically become another bill. I used to carpool to cut the cost but as of recently I've been moving around too much to set something up. Over the past month I'd say I've spent about 200 on parking. Even the metro can be costly because it's still 5 dollars to park along with the fair so in may case I'd still break even. But hey those are the detriments of working in the city. My advice to anyone working in DC is to find a meeting place and carpool if possible, and get to a job early to do a little driving around to find the best garage nearby. In the meantime I'll just suck it up and get tough.