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Just interested to know what do people do for work that allows them to surf during the week. It seems like a fair few people here get to surf whenever it gets good.

Uni

But not as much when your doing honours

Shiftwork with 12 hour shifts and heaps of time off. Adding it up I work less than half the year.
I dont bother too much surfing weekends

Im the same, uni and work a few nights a week, but uni this semester has kept me out of the water WAAAY too much
May as well be working all week.........almost

im a chippe and work when i want!

I work for a bank doing small business finance - same as Ringmaster - as long as the boxes are ticked and numbers on the board its very autonomous.

don't work for myself, but have a 9 day fortnight, with some flexibility when I take the rostered day off... means I can usually get a wave or two

Graveyard shift Mon - Fri (9pm - 5am) plus having a mobile & lappy allows for interesting remote work locations...

mow foam

I'm sticking with the 'uni' excuse, but I've been looking at options for when I graduate. Found one that sounds great, I believe it's called 'the dole' Surf anytime you want...except when you're busy lining up at centrelink.

Im a hitman so my work takes me around and is mostly at nights. I can surf when i want and wash the blood from my hands in the sea. Literally and spiritually. You gotta love what you do.

Tafe 2.5 times a week and a casual job gets me money for nights out.

Im in same boat as sean, i dont bother on the weekend unless its pumping (although havnt had a decent wave for a while so id settle with avg conditions in the coming weekends.

^^^

interesting ... what ya do for em? Something tells me you'd be a teamster

Im in the same boat as sean, 12hr shifts, Unreal, i think after taking all my holidays, i work 157 odd days a year. I work weekends ans nights, so i get plenty of opportunities to surf. I would absolutely struggle to go back to 7am-3pm. It does suck working nights sometimes, but weekends dont bother me ( i have young kids and a mortgage, no goin out for me!! ). In a way its a part time job, but i get paid pretty well for it. Acually, after sunday, i have 11 days off, no annual leave, just an 11 day break, coz i smashed a heap of shifts in a row. Gotta love it.

I'm in Film and TV - looks like a similar sort of gig as Dinosaur. Too busy to surf when we're working, but able to surf all the time when we don't have many scripts in. It's even better than when i was at uni because you have enough cash (and FF points) to go OS when it suits. Lifestyle is A1. In fact, just walked my chick to the ferry, sipping on a latte and about to hit Manly Corner on the foamie, even though it's one foot and powerless, because it's a nice morning to float around for half an hour. Gold!

"Surf journalist", ha ha ha.

Large amounts of quality water time ABSOLUTELY VITAL to the task.

Actually it's amazing how little surfing time most surf journalists put in...around WCT events I reckon I can count on one hand the ones I've seen surfing in the past 20 years.

Company director.

I work for a small little company called quikripabong. On the first Monday of each month I send out the orders to my happy & productive little team who work from cosy shops doted around Asia. It’s funny, they don’t seem to want to get paid much, I guess they really like their jobs. Even funnier is that people here will pay $90 for my boardshorts, that only cost me $5 to make! By Tuesday my work is done, so I drive around up and down the northern beaches in my Woollahra tractor. Once in a while I take my $950 fish out for a spin. Generally I have a lot of productivity meetings with other company directors where we in no way talk about fixing prices or anything, but do enjoy a few skinny decaf soy caps.

I mostly look forward to weekends when I take my $1,200 performance mal out at Bondi, where I can show off my trimming skills.

like a few here, I work freelance in TV. averages out at 3 days a week. I'm generally suprised by how many i see in the water at 11am on a tues morning.