Feeding your family is important but seeing your family is just as important. Just flew with a guy last week and he was junior manned into a 9 day trip during this month. (I saw his schedule.) Imagine not seeing your family for 10-11 days in a row. If you ever have a 30 hr overnight somewhere then it sets you up for getting abused by the company.

This is the only reason we are going to have a two year upgrade this year. We have so many FOs bypassing the upgrade for better QOL. With the new bonuses we have it helps increase ones pay to more manageable levels. 100hrs at 40$ plus 10k vs 75 hrs at 70ish isn't much difference. The main thing that sets the pay apart is the CA OT/JM. It is really hard to convince me to go from working ten days a month to 20. Putting my kids to bed most nights vs not seeing them for 10 days in a row, is a HUGE QOL difference. If they can ever catch up on the CA side of hiring then I'll start looking at upgrading.