I hear ya on that (working hard). Before, MOST people got a single decent JA a month with a trip RLS and called it good and set back on cruise control at 100+ hours for the month. Then as the union tightened down on these voluntary JAs something happened. People began being compelled to pick up in order to still have the 100 hours of credit. In order to do so they had to pick up tons of little crappy paying trips at straight pay, not one decent trip at 200%. And then.... open time disappeared. And then I ran because I was ticked I had to pick up red eyes etc to cover what was typically a cake walk to get 100 hours. I didn't depend on that credit until my wife lost her job. Thankfully that difficult time is over.
During that same period, yes, there were folks who's thirst could not be quenched. 200 hours was not uncommon for them. I sure would like to get paid 200 hours. Not going to lie.