Originally Posted by
Delta2heavy
You are totally right, I could have asked the question better
I have really good control over my schedule now but as I look at the international schedules it’s seems like almost everyone top to bottom is getting roughly the same schedule of two weekends off a month.
Pay is obviously higher but I like quality of life more than money
I do enjoy big blocks of time off, I tend to not like working a 4 day almost every week in the summer especially, and in the winter I struggle finding open time to keep the credit up.
Finances 68.5 hours as a block holder is fine on 330/350 or 72 as a reserve is fine, I won’t need any green slips
I have young kids, christmas is important but I don’t know if one day per year is worth it, my current schedule has always been terrible in December trying to get it off. Day before or after would be fine I think.
Hope this helps
Reading the above, to me, it really sounds like you should try the WB-B. (Not including the 7ER).
As far as getting Xmas off being junior on a WB, from my experience (albeit as a junior in category WB-A) it can be done fairly easily using vacation, IVD's and your APD. This last year I had a week of vacation in December and moved/slid it to the second week. I could not get it over Xmas. But with the use of an IVD and my APD I was able to narrow my on call days down to Dec. 24, 25, 26. Other than something popping up last minute there were no trips I could be assigned. The shortest trip in my category was 4 days. Other than something popping up last minute I was golden. You do have to pay attention to longer trips that can be broken up but that's easily doable. I was home for this last Xmas and every year I have been on the 330 (about 5).
Denny