[quote=Chente;869244]Understatement of the century. Commuting to NY, especially from the West Coast is going to make you question your choice of career. I commuted from PHX and DEN to NYC for a little over a year and it was horrific. I cannot begin to describe the nastyness. Like someone else mentioned, it's not just the long flight, and the time zones, the cost of being based in NYC (Transportation, crash pad, etc) adds up ridiculously quickly. There is no question about it, you WILL hate everything and everyone. The only thing that kept me going was thinking that someday, things were going to get better (In theory) and they did.
So although this post sounds negative and discouraging, what I'm trying to say is you have to look at it like this:
This sucks, but in the long run, it's going to get better, and this career is definitely worth the commute.[/quot

I commute west coast to east coast and I don't think it as bad as you say. Got a crashpad, and sit reserve some months..that isn't fun. But if you can get a line it is bearable.