Distance and Time Off

[Dad]

Originally Posted by Adam

I live in a metro area with roughly 25 high schools within half an hour drive. We also serve some smaller outlying schools, with most of them within 45 minutes to an hour. Might be one or two that take 2 hours.

I have to schedule time off in advance, so in general, I will take a few Tuesday and Friday afternoons off during the winter.

Most schools are within a 45 minutes drive. Have about 10-15 schools within a ten minute ride. Anytime I'm traveling more than an hour it's probably a double header. Also, double header is often the case on a 40-60 minutes ride.

Everything considered, there's maybe one or two schools I'd rather not go to.

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My work is 54 miles from my home...so I set my zip code in The Arbiter closer to work than home. As a result I get a lot of the outlying schools in our coverage area. This season (the first with this office location) I have driven an average of 30-45 minutes to a game. Now, many times that means I have a 1 1/2 hour drive home after the game.

Several members of senior management with this company have kids that play (or did play) basketball and they find it interesting that I officiate. I can usually take off as needed to get to my games...I just send an email to several people each week with the days (and times) I will be leaving the office early.