I think it’s going to be very much a work in progress as I’ve come up with a few more ideas, such as doing a count perhaps once or twice a month on the number of newly posted jobs and thier locations. I don’t know if it is worth is however as I don’t know how the headhunters/agencies will skew the results. I do know that some of them while listing themselves as the contact, DO list the correct location of the job.

Im planning on firing up my old blog once again just to show you and others how dependent most people still are on their car to commute, how terribly inefficient mass transit is, and how I would say bicycling to work is TOTALLY OUT OF THE QUESTION for most of us.

The rules for my blog are;

1 - Once or twice a week, I will randomly pick a job from the listings that Monster sends me.

2 - I zoom maps.google.com out until the entire US is visible.

3 - I right click on a spot on the map, and select center map.

4 - I zoom in and if it is within 30 miles of NYC, I continue. If not, I go back to step 2.

5 - I then calculate commutes from that location to the selected job.

Last time I ran this blog, unless the two were close together, a car commute always worked out to be the better commute.

And this doesn’t even take into account other factors like rushing home to pick up kids from school or day care (or perhaps other loved ones), traveling to a second job within a certain time frame (or perhaps school), etc…