Anyone who has looked at my previous comments will know that I was told to look at the transport options regarding applying for a job at a call centre in Cwmbran and to email my CV if I thought it was possible to make it for all three shifts. Although the reality is that they wouldn't take on an old guy like me who hasn't worked for quite a while, I thought it best to go along with things even though the Jobcentre are sifting through the applicants for the company called Griffin Place Communications. I have been looking through bus and train timetables and found that the train would only take around 25 minutes to Cwmbran from Cardiff but then you have to walk approximately six minutes to the bus station to catch a bus for a short trip to a bus stop not far from the call centre. A weekly rail ticket would set you back almost £35 and each bus ticket would be around £1.70p. So if we take £17 and £35 and total up to £52, that would be the equvalent after tax and national insurance of around £78 a week from a yearly salary of £14,000. Imagine over £3,500 of the £14,000 salary gone in transport fares. It would mean that you were earning just £10,500 a year and some of that would still be taxed. I will email my advisor a copy of my CV and see what happens. It appears that all applicants will have to be available for a work trial but if they pay up the travel expenses for a week then it will cost them quite a bit if the company are after 300 workers. If I ended up completing a work trial even though I am not a fan of call centres then I would probably travel by bus. It would mean catching a bus before 8am and arriving at a bus stop not far from the road where the call centre is by 8.40am directly from Cardiff. The problem is that the last bus from Cwmbran directly to Cardiff is at 5.40pm and the earliest finish at the call centre is 6pm. This would mean catching another bus from Cwmbran to Newport and then a three minute walk to Queensway in Newport and catching a number 30 bus to Cardiff. Both of those journeys would cost £2.10p each so a total of £21 a week and that's only for the return journey. It would be pointless buying a return in the morning from Cardiff to Cwmbran but it would be the easier trip to make with no hassle. I will have to check how much it is for a single to Cwmbran but it is likely to be around £4.00 so I'm guessing that it will be just a little bit over £40 a week to travel by bus alone. At least I now have some knowledge of the travel requirements in case they put me on a work trial at the call centre. I did stumble across a website called “the salary calculator” and I have put a link to it on the links box on the left. It's interesting and fun to see how much you are left with after tax by just typing in different salaries.