I'll give you an idea of my experience. Ive been on property about 14 months. When I started I did one month in IAD and then was awarded Chicago, which was my base of choice. I commute from STL. I could have held a line after 4 months but bid reserve for a couple more months to try to get certain days off. As a reserve I tried to fly by using aggressive pickup, which basically allows you to pick up flying the day before you start your reserve days. For that reason I probably worked more than the average reserve guy, but I only had maybe a month or two where I only had min days at home. Granted a couple of those days each month I was at home on long call reserve and was able to make that work because of the commuting situation I had in STL. Now as a junior lineholder I'm getting between 14-17 days off. I do of course work almost every weekend but that's just part of being junior. Even though staffing for 737 FOs in ORD is a little tight, I've had pretty good luck with trip trading as a line holder and am able to improve my schedule... I would definitely take the hogan and see what happens.