What is the best career to maximize your cycling/racing time?
01-27-14, 12:04 PM
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01-27-14, 03:43 PM
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i don;t get it
"retired"
or
"rich playboy''
you don;t mention the most important thing - how much does this career have to pay?
wle
"retired"
or
"rich playboy''
you don;t mention the most important thing - how much does this career have to pay?
wle
01-27-14, 04:11 PM
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Pimping.....got days off
01-27-14, 06:56 PM
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01-27-14, 06:56 PM
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01-27-14, 09:15 PM
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I won't get into an internet argument about teachers working half as hard or not deserving their pension. Between preparing the room, correcting papers, preparing plans and coordinating with other teachers, I would not expect a teacher to put less than 50-60 hours per week during the school year. I had a parent who was a teacher and am now married to one, and the time committed by each is comparable.
And honestly, even at 50hrs a week, it's still a good deal given that summers are mostly off and you get a lot of school breaks. No way that a teacher's training and education and on-job work is harder than a doctors', but I've seen the stats, and financially they're comparable until like 20 years in (when doctors earnings finally make up for the lost earning years spent in school and debts). Not a bad place to be as a teacher financially. (If you're a public school teacher in a good district, at least, not my brother in a charter school with very low pay and no pension.)
01-27-14, 10:07 PM
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Mine is semi-good. I work 4 days a week and am off Fri, Sat, Sun (I actually voluntarily work one Friday per month to yield an extra 3 weeks vacation time per year, for a total of 6 weeks off). But I work crazy hours Mon-Thurs, have a long commute, am on-call 1 week per month and it took 8 years of professional (post-coLlege) training to get my credentials.
I'm a specialist veterinarian, by the way- neurology & neurosurgery. I work hard in a pretty stressful job but I can afford a nice bike.
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01-27-14, 10:24 PM
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I have a couple of recurring meetings each week but otherwise can take off for a two hour ride any time I feel like, and get my work done when it's darker/colder/etc. If I were into randonneuring I could fit a lot of brevets into four weeks of paid vacation each year and I doubt people would mind if I exchanged the two weeks of scheduled holidays for other days off.
I write software but there are other jobs which work the same way.
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01-27-14, 10:26 PM
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60 hours a week of work with 8 hours of sleep each day leave 52 waking hours to do other things.
01-28-14, 03:33 AM
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I was an overnight baker last year and worked five days a week 9pm-6am, then after work went for a ride as by 7am it is light out.
This year not so much....I either work 7am-6pm or 4:30pm-4:30am as a manager...
This year not so much....I either work 7am-6pm or 4:30pm-4:30am as a manager...
01-28-14, 11:30 AM
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Any packaging professionals in the 41?
Im looking at packaging machine assembly Jobs, and hopefully going back to school and get an engineering degree so I can avoid the whole service tech routine. I've also heard some engineers get overworked but that is more in the line/manufacturing end I believe.
Im looking at packaging machine assembly Jobs, and hopefully going back to school and get an engineering degree so I can avoid the whole service tech routine. I've also heard some engineers get overworked but that is more in the line/manufacturing end I believe.
