I had one of those sweet Gov flying jobs in a sweet large cabin jet and when I was in the pilot's seat I freaking loved it. The problem was that I was only in the pilot seat once or twice per week. Guess what I did the other 3 or 4 days of the week...PAPERWORK and MEETINGS!

Flying for a major has allowed me to work less per month and exceed my former gov job salary by a large margin. So now I tend to work less than my monthly bid schedule and end up matching the pay of my Gov job by flying 10 days of work per month...the rest is gravy if I want to work more.

After commuting I can usually get 18 days off per month and that has had an enormous impact on my personal and family life. Oh yeah...zero PAPERWORK and zero MEETINGS now.