No Parking?
Posted by Patrick on Friday, July 20, 2007The new job continues to go well, and I've survived a full month there. The work is consistently web-designerish, and my co-workers are cool.
The only downside (and really it's hardly that bad) is that because its right in downtown Raleigh (as in the look, there's the capital building kind of downtown), the parking situation isn't perfect. Work pays a little bit of the parking, but it's not free.
I can either park right close to the building I work in and pay a small fortune (eight bucks a day), or I can park four blocks away and pay just over a dollar a day. A dollar a day is fairly reasonable. I decided on the cheap lot for my first month.
The only downside of the cheap parking is that it's in a not-so-savory neighborhood, in a lot behind a company that builds burial vaults. It's also right on the other side of a set of railroad tracks, and my lot is on the wrong side of the tracks. I haven't been accosted or anything, but I have run into some sketchy local folk who always seem to want to chat. I also found a woman's shoe in my spot one morning, which I imagine has a story behind it.
Another complicating factor is the fact that I just found what I imagine is oft-considered the holy grail of urban automotive storage: consistent street parking. It's sort of near sketchy-parking-lot, but a block closer to my workplace and requires no monetary contributions on my part. It's nice - no parallel parking required either.
The only downside of this parking situation is that I have to arrive and claim the spot before 7:30am, or I'm outta-luck. I normally arrive at work pretty early, but always having to be there at 7:30 is kind of tough.
For the next few weeks I'm going to try the street-parking routeand see how it goes. Ultimately I'd like to find a backup street-parking spot that is perhaps a few blocks further away but always available if I'm running late.
So, that's my anti-climactic parking-related blog post.
Labels: Automotive, Employement
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