Try this for a week:
- Monday - Get up at 3am. Go to bed at Noon. Get Up at Midnight.
- Tuesday - Stay up until Noon. Go to bed. Sleep 4 hours. Get up and have dinner. Go to bed and get up at 3 am. No, wait...the phone rang. NOW, get up at Midnight.
- Wednesday - Stay up for 21 hours. Double crew so you get a nap on the plane. Get to destination. Take 24 hours off- But, plan sleep/naps carefully- things will probably change.
- Thursday - Randomly get up and go back to bed every time you think you should or shouldn't.
- Friday - WHATEVER...You get the picture. I can guarantee you won't continue this past Friday because you are tired of feeling like Dog $h!T all day everyday.
OH...UNLESS it's for The God Almighty Dollar...Then you will do this to yourself for 16 days in a row.
Lather, rinse, repeat, and destroy your health so that you never make it to 65 anyway, and then you can leave large chunks of money to others that you will never have the time to enjoy.
Yay!
Seriously, get on with any of the Major/Legacy pax carriers, MOVE and live in base, and maintain a much healthier lifestyle so that you may enjoy all the rest of the days you have left on the planet.
ACMI IS a Blast...and some of the best flying I have done but, it is a young man's game. Don't be doing this to yourself when you are 55 years old!
The only reason people ever did is because there were few alternatives for many decades and they got STUCK.
You have options in the current hiring situation that have NEVER been present before in the history of the Industry here in the USA.
Good Luck and Godspeed whatever you do..!
STK