re: How common are Non exempt salary jobs

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You might want to check on this. Seems like if I was your employer, I wouldn't be too thrilled about 25hr workweeks, regular long lunches and leaving early on "slow days"... especially if I'm going to be paying you 1.5x when you have to stay on "busy days"

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This is extremely common in the technical service world. The jobs may require a formal degree, but because you are doing repair work on customer sites for a significant percentage of your time federal labor laws requires the positions to be non-exempt. Most of these jobs have the employee working remote from any type of office setting, and the work load varies from boredom to brutal. It is not anything like a 9-5 job, and managers understand that when the schedule is light employees catch up on personal stuff because the next day my bring a 100 hour stretch with only enough time off to get a little sleep. G.E., Siemens, Philips Medical, Halliburton, tons of other major corps. have these type position, usually as field engineers.