Originally Posted by TankerDriver

In regards to the 7/7, 15 day or 18 day options for your schedule, what are your opinions on the best QOL schedule. I'm currently a full timer in the Air National Guard after coming off Active Duty about a year ago and after being deployed 200-240 days a year, it's nice to be home for a change. I've toyed with the idea of going to the airlines, but my motivation for a 121 career has pretty much gone down the tubes for various reasons. The money as a full timer in the guard is pretty good, so I would be taking about a $25,000-30,000 pay cut to do the guard part time with starting pay at NJ, which I'm not *too* concerned with. What I am concerned with is the 7/7 schedule. I just don't think that's a great schedule for family life, but I could be wrong. With the guard, I'd also be looking at the weekend drill once a month, flying 3-4 times a month and an alert day here and there, so my 14 days "off" from NJ would turn into about 8 days off. Any other guard guys doing the NJ thing?