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I may have an opportunity. Just curious to know about others experiences. The compensation is good enough to where I'll get a studio in the work city.
Your thoughts.
I can see getting temporary corporate housing for a few months to get you started and familiar to the new area, I've done this. But no way would I fly back and forth each weekend. Make plans to move there.
My dad did this for 7-8 years once the kids were grown and out of the house. He negotiated for a 4-day week, working 10 hours a day. He'd fly or drive home on Friday and drive back on Sunday or take the red-eye Monday morning back to whatever city his company had him working in. His company put him up in housing during the time he was on-site. His contracts would be for several months, so he was able to have a somewhat set schedule. Since his company paid for mileage, he liked the contracts that were within driving distance - he pocketed a lot of extra $$ that way. And flying helped him save up a lot of miles to get free trips when he and my mom went on vacation.
It worked for them - my mom had her own business and was able to focus on that without feeling guilty about the long hours while he was gone. Then he'd come home and they'd do fun stuff together or do projects around the house.
Once his traveling days came to an end they had a period of major adjustment - my mom started to get upset that her work days "had" to stop at 6 p.m. when he got home from the office (they didn't have to, but she felt obligated to stop working once he got home). It took them several months to find a new balance after he had been on the road for so many years.
7-8 years? Why not just move to the new job location?
I don't have children nor a wife. I don't plan to have children and a wife is far into the future.
Then I'm at a loss what is keeping you there? Move to the town where the job is.
I have a friend who decided he didn't want to move because he wanted to stay in town where his friends were. The problem is, he was always traveling to and from this far away job and never saw his friends. He would have be better off he told me to move to where the new job was and then visit his friends with he had vacation.
I have a friend who is a traveling nurse. She lives in Alaska, rotating locations she works. She works in Fairbanks for two weeks, then flies back to Anchorage and works there two weeks (about 350 miles away). Her home base is in Anchorage, and she has a small apartment in Fairbanks.
I work a week on/week off schedule at a remote site, 8 hours from home -- BUT housing is provided at the site. I like it a lot for the long time off and the almost natural habit of leaving work at work and home at home. I might not like it as much if the off days were a shorter period, but I end up with 5 days usually.
Married but no kids. Usually my wife is just starting to remember some of my annoying habits when I have to head back to work!
Four day work week and no family to worry about? GO FOR IT! You can't beat the mileage payouts or the frequent flier miles you'd get as a result.
Aside from the OP's q, but I don't get why people think they are making out in mileage. I've never heard of a company paying more than break even on mileage. 55 cents a mile, when you do the math over the life of a car, is literally (actually less than, now, I think) what it costs to operate a car. You don't make money on it. So for every mile you drive, they're just covering the costs... if you're lucky. You're not making money on it.
You might be able to argue that you would be carrying insurance and making payments anyway, so it offsets that a bit. But the gas, repairs, additional depreciation and other wear and tear eats away most of what they are paying you.
I know this because a family member kept track of his expenditures for the life of a car he had over 10 years. From purchase to sale, every gallon of gas, every repair, every incidental cost, all in a spreadsheet.
It came out to about 50 cents a mile. And this was in about 2000 or so when gas was much cheaper.
Aside from the OP's q, but I don't get why people think they are making out in mileage. I've never heard of a company paying more than break even on mileage. 55 cents a mile, when you do the math over the life of a car, is literally (actually less than, now, I think) what it costs to operate a car. You don't make money on it. So for every mile you drive, they're just covering the costs... if you're lucky. You're not making money on it.
You might be able to argue that you would be carrying insurance and making payments anyway, so it offsets that a bit. But the gas, repairs, additional depreciation and other wear and tear eats away most of what they are paying you.
I know this because a family member kept track of his expenditures for the life of a car he had over 10 years. From purchase to sale, every gallon of gas, every repair, every incidental cost, all in a spreadsheet.
It came out to about 50 cents a mile. And this was in about 2000 or so when gas was much cheaper.
But figure in they also get paid drive time.. They are getting 55 cents a mile, plus, say, $50/hr just to drive..
I have a friend that does this, but he flies and has an apt in the other city. Leaves Monday morning, home Friday evening. Then he also has the 4th week off every month to "work from home" in which case he just kind of has to be available.
But figure in they also get paid drive time.. They are getting 55 cents a mile, plus, say, $50/hr just to drive..
I have a friend that does this, but he flies and has an apt in the other city. Leaves Monday morning, home Friday evening. Then he also has the 4th week off every month to "work from home" in which case he just kind of has to be available.
I suppose, but again, that's not free money. You're sitting. In a car. Driving. Not exactly something I would be doing just for fun, so even getting paid for that (while better than not getting paid) you're still getting paid for doing work. That's all it is. It's no different than stocking shelves at Wal-Mart.
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