I am with you. I paused when I needed to and I fatigued at least once a tour, often twice. But again, you don't get the daily manipulation of your schedule and in reality you don't get much manipulation of your schedule. The CCs give a bit of flexibility as far as days off you want which is nice.

The day to day I don't control at where I am now, but I do the month before when I bid. I bid for trips I want, whether I want red eyes or not, where I want to go, and what times I want to start. For the most part I get what I want which is really nice, but I am not super picky. I hate red eyes, I don't like super early morning starts, and I like avoiding east coast airports (west coast based) and for the most part I get what I want which is great.

Maybe regional schedules are like NJA, but my airline schedule is like 2 legs a day, sometimes 3. Usually 8-9 hours of duty and at at least a 14 hour overnight, typically 18-19 so I never feel that pressure to have to stop the buck. But no I don't call up each day and tell them where and when I want to go, just like NJA, but like I said I got to choose that when I bid for that month.