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I have a home less than 8 miles from Mount Olive High School. Thing is I am often required in Downtown or Midtown Manhattan in person. On the best day my commute one way is 2.25 hours from Mount Olive. On the worst it can be 6 hours one way. The last leg is on the PATH train because it can take even longer by car. With a 5+ hour commute per day, a 9-12 hour work day, MORT running almost everyday during build season, plus multiple businesses in addition to my managing director work, I usually can not make every night at MORT. Sometimes I get lucky and can work from home for a bit or can take some time off. Those times I show up more frequently.

I manage an International team. So a lot of this can be done remotely and even from NYC is still remote. Unfortunately even with my Honda Insight getting 50MPG I waste enormous amounts of energy travelling for a job that I could do without physical presence. I could even help MORT since I now have a 2015 KOP robot with all the bells and whistles. Doing the CNC mentoring was more difficult because you had to be physically present and I do not own a Haas TM1 to show the experience outside the school. The current CNC mentor has his own Haas mills at his workplace so he has a remote work opportunity.