Originally Posted by Tully Mars

I don't know if that's a blessing or a bummer. Overtime is nice but it sucks if it's not paid. The last job I had where I worked for someone else I work for the state of Oregon in a salaried position. It was not at all uncommon to work 60-70 hours a week even though the scheduled hours were 8-5 M-F with 1 hour lunches. It was a job with a lot of windshield/driving time. They supplied the vehicle but you really didn't get paid for most of the driving. I regularly put 3500 miles a month or more on a Jeep.

I did that for roughly 20 years. At the same time I also ran a small construction, really small- me and one employee, for the last 13-14 years. I worked one Christmas putting new floors in a restaurant, was the only day they were closed. The next Christmas it dawned on me I'd worked close to two years without a day off. Not long after that I started thinking about cashing it all in and moving to Mexico.