What's your secret for getting off work to hunt?
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dmj
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Best of luck to you and your wife. Having your spouse enjoy the outdoors and wanting to spend time with you in the outdoors sure makes it more enjoyable. We have had a lot of fun and no regrets.
Starbuck
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To me, it largely depends on where you do you hunting and what your expectations are. If you hunt close to home, I know some guys who work in a machine shop, and their day shift works 5am to 1pm. They hunt and fish more frequently than anyone I know. Likewise with the mechanics where I work - similar shifts. Some of them fish walleye all afternoon for 4-5 days a week all summer.
Have a good friend who works a lot from home as a production engineer, and he never seems to have a shortage of hunting and fishing time, but its all close to home as he has to have internet.
If going on week long or longer trips is the expectation, then a guy has to maybe get a little more creative as far as jobs, especially if he has a family. There's the small businesses men who've opined. Certainly a good way to some day have time and money, but not everyone is cut out for running a business, and all successful business owners I know didn't just find that success in a cracker jack box; instead it was hard earned over many years of way above average work and hours.
At my job (full time FF/P), we can trade our shifts and get nice blocks of time off, but it comes at the cost of working multi day swings when paying guys back, which isn't too popular at home when a guy is away from home paying back the time he owes at work from the time he took to go on a hunt that was also away from home. But it works great if you're single.
A friend of mine works at a factory where they do 3 and 4 - 12 hour shifts on alternating weeks. So if he plans it right, 3 shifts of vacation gets him something like 11 consecutive days off. Seems he's always going here or there for a week or two. I know of a couple Police Departments who work similar 12 hour schedule rotations.
Have a good friend who works a lot from home as a production engineer, and he never seems to have a shortage of hunting and fishing time, but its all close to home as he has to have internet.
If going on week long or longer trips is the expectation, then a guy has to maybe get a little more creative as far as jobs, especially if he has a family. There's the small businesses men who've opined. Certainly a good way to some day have time and money, but not everyone is cut out for running a business, and all successful business owners I know didn't just find that success in a cracker jack box; instead it was hard earned over many years of way above average work and hours.
At my job (full time FF/P), we can trade our shifts and get nice blocks of time off, but it comes at the cost of working multi day swings when paying guys back, which isn't too popular at home when a guy is away from home paying back the time he owes at work from the time he took to go on a hunt that was also away from home. But it works great if you're single.
A friend of mine works at a factory where they do 3 and 4 - 12 hour shifts on alternating weeks. So if he plans it right, 3 shifts of vacation gets him something like 11 consecutive days off. Seems he's always going here or there for a week or two. I know of a couple Police Departments who work similar 12 hour schedule rotations.
Chranah
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School teacher here. It's harder to take time off and write sub plans than it is to go in to teach, but with that said I do take time off...
My previous principal was also a hunter. He and I would would use our sick leave as mental health days and go.
My current principal is more "left leaning" I will say, and I have to use personal days, of which I'm only allowed to roll over 2 from the previous year and get 3 new, totalling 5 each school year.
My previous principal was also a hunter. He and I would would use our sick leave as mental health days and go.
My current principal is more "left leaning" I will say, and I have to use personal days, of which I'm only allowed to roll over 2 from the previous year and get 3 new, totalling 5 each school year.
I'm going ice fishing in Wisconsin on Sunday - you're all welcome to join me on Lake Winnebago. Dress warm, bring some friends and buy some ice cleats...
Starbuck
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Where are you going off of? Be safe out there. Pulled a guy from the ice south of Kalbus 2 days ago. He drove right into open water. Crack opened up.I'm going ice fishing in Wisconsin on Sunday - you're all welcome to join me on Lake Winnebago. Dress warm, bring some friends and buy some ice cleats...
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Get a good sales job, and take clients on hunts. Then you're technically still "working" and don't even have to "take time off to hunt".
LRNut
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My son in law is a teacher and huge hunter and fisherman. Would love to take him on an exotic hunt someday...
The boss/owner hunts too, AND fishes. I'm GM and basically tell him that I'll be out of the office x days and he does the same to me. We both miss a lot of time during the seasons. It evens out though, sometimes we have deadlines that demand I spend a LOT of time at work and I just handle it.
Yikes! Depends on the ice report, that crazy wind has caused some damage. Maybe off of Jefferson or the other side - Stockbridge. It's a big lake! Which is why we call it "The Big Lake".
