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Originally Posted by Junker
First of all, congrats on the varsity game. It sounds like it went well. Secondly, you're driving 2 1/2 hours to a high school game?! That's just brutal. I should apologize to my crew for complaining when they schedule us more than 1 1/2 hours away. Is that long of a trip common for officials out there? How do you make that work with jobs?
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Thanks, it was a good day
Our association services about 20 high schools and several junior highs. Most are within about 20 miles of each other. But we have several outlying schools as well. Depending on where the school is, and where you are coming from, 2 1/2 hours is pretty long, but not the longest. I happen to live a ways out anyway, which puts me a lot closer to some of the outlying schools, including Altamont (though we don't work their games), and a lot farther away from some others. I've been averaging 3-4 long trips per year since I started.
They do pay mileage for anything over 50 miles round-trip, however. I got invited out to a tournament about 2 hours drive away. I worked four soph. girls games in a row, plus got mileage. My check was $233.