I've been SAPing for only a year and a half. You have to build your schedule around it (missing out on good trips...) so that you can spend your two days off ( the night of and the morning/day after, so now your 85 hours 17 days off is really 15 days off... ) babysitting the computer screen. The "processing" gets worse and worse every month and it takes longer and longer and longer and longer.... I didn't even SAP the past two months because my schedule was fine as is. Being at the lower end of the pay scale with a contract written on swiss cheese and enforced by the "fly and grieve it" committee really lowers the bar for me. No way its up there with 9E on its best day. You are entitled to your two cents worth as much as I am. I wasn't going to comment but what the hey, guess I'm bored.