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Originally Posted by pfan1981
Am I way off here?
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It all depends upon your current aim, your objective, what you hope to accomplish in your officiating career.
If your aim is to enjoy the least amount of travel and you were afforded that luxury by, for instance, an understanding assigner or a mileage limitation setting on the Arbiter, and you are getting the number of games you desire, then I can understand how distant assignments might cause you frustration. If your objective is to become known or recognized or work with more varied officials or officiate where you're not known well, then distant games where the "net" won't be as near the "gross" would be okay with you.
It all depends upon what you're hoping to accomplish in your pursuit of officiating.
I know of one official who this year accepted a single 65.00 GV game 164 miles one-way (no mileage paid) with certain officials for a certain assigner for a certain purpose. That game will net him 17.07, yet his objective in accepting this game is fulfilled and he is satisfied. Given camps, uniform upgrades, study materials, and gasoline offsetting 39 games @ 65.00 each, he'll net about 2.26 per game, and he's perfectly happy because this is a means whereby his objective is being carried out.
I know of another official who won't accept games farther than 15 miles from home. He has a different aim. He wants to get home early to watch SpongeBob or something. He won't spend 7.20 on a new rulesbook if his life depended on it. And that's fine. He's perfectly content. Hope his ultimate aim is to get only middle school games, cuz at his current pace he'll get there in a year or so.
It all depends on what aim you've chosen for yourself at a given time in your officiating career.
Sound good? Or am I "way off"?