Dealing with your job during hunting season.

[jonsimoneau]

How do you guys deal with work obligations during deer season? The past two years I have been working at a job that only allows me to hunt weekends. That may be enough for a lot of guys but I simply cannot handle it. What jobs do you guys have that are hunter friendly?

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[Dor]

How do you guys deal with work obligations during deer season? The past two years I have been working at a job that only allows me to hunt weekends. That may be enough for a lot of guys but I simply cannot handle it. What jobs do you guys have that are hunter friendly?

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No job is hunter friendly!
I laughed my off when I read your post. Love it and feel the same way!

[BJE80]

Only hunting weekends is typical for me for years. I don't get out of work early enough during the week to hunt at all really.

[Bowhunting Brian]

well, we have a 12 point system. go home early and it's 1/2 a point. not show up and it's a whole point. 12 points is hard to get in a year, but if you do. it's troulbe. so far I have 0, but there is talk about manditory saturdays soon. that means I will be getting some points. LOL.

[Redman232]

I show up early and leave late the rest of the year so I have more flexibility in October and November, my wife hates it but now I can typically leave early or come in late when a weather front comes in. It's still not enough.

[NatureBoy]

"Dealing" is a good choice of words. It's tough. I try to cover for fellow workers throughout the year so that when hunting season comes, they cover for me a lot. I come in late, leave early, beg for time off... Whatever it takes to get out there. I would think a trades job would be more conducive to hunting. Things usually slow down a bit for those guys in the winter.

[Dewey]

I am severely restricted by work early season especially since I work 2nd shift. Starting this coming weekend my vacation starts so I will get at least 3 day weekends and another 3 full weeks off in Oct. and Nov. so there is light at the end of the tunnel. Can't wait! It drives me crazy every day on my way to work on these cooler days we have been having.

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[headgear]

Basically a weekend hunter save for a week vacation I split up between bowhunt and rifle hunting with the family. I sneak in a few mid-week early season hunts but those don't last long as we are losing light fast and working until 5 is painful!

One thing I do to help spread things out a little is split up my vacation days. Weekday mornings are harder because I have to help get the kids up and ready for the day so I shoot for the evenings to get out and hunt. I work a handful of 1/2 days in late Oct or early Nov so I am off around noon and head strait into the woods.

[backstraps]

I just try and get in the woods when I can.
I add days off to the weekend by using vacation days.

Hunter friendly jobs...hahaha. those guys are on the outdoor channels

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[Chris Conroy]

I'm lucky because the owner of my company is a hunter (not a good one, but he "hunts"). He allows me to start early and leave at 2 pm a couple days a week. I have a weeks vacation left that I am saving for the beginning of November, and of course most weekends. This coming weekend is the youth hunt so I hope to get my daughter her first deer and my son a chance at a nice Buck. After this weekend it's back to bowhunting.

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[Bucky]

I chose job to accommodate hunting and family.... more of a commute but better time off and schedule. Time is more important to me than pay...

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[Dor]

I chose job to accommodate hunting and family.... more of a commute but better time off and schedule. Time is more important to me than pay...

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Ditto...flexibility is key. My benefits pretty much stink, but flexibility is very nice. Been taking dang near a month of to hunt the rut for 10 years now. Never had an issue.

[GRFox]

My recent promotion has me working 55 hour work weeks. Its still only 5 days a week though, and If im closing the store on one of the days I do work i could squeeze in a morning hunt.

So that gives me 2 maybe 3 days a week which gives me 4 to 6 hunts. Plus I have a 9 day vacation Novmber 10th thru the 19th. I cant complain. I wish I had more time but I know I will be burnt out come December so I guess it really is enough.

Every year i think to myself, "man Im not going to have enough time to hunt." And every year around mid December I cant wait for it to be over....

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[Schultzy]

It varies for me. Being self employed It can be great and It can suck when It comes to getting time off. This year hasn't been as good so far when trying to get out In a deer stand. Been out 4 times.

[Bucky]

I chose job to accommodate hunting and family.... more of a commute but better time off and schedule. Time is more important to me than pay...

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Ditto...flexibility is key. My benefits pretty much stink, but flexibility is very nice. Been taking dang near a month of to hunt the rut for 10 years now. Never had an issue.

Off Oct 27th-Nov 22nd.... a Dor like vacation for this rut