Originally Posted by
AwkwardTurtle
You work 5-10 days a month? How many days are you sitting next to the phone?
By your measure, I get 30 days off every month I bid reserve.
So no, it obviously isn't 20-25 hard days off, but at the end of the day, if they didn't call me and I go about most of my business as usual, it "feels" like a day off. I haven't had being on short call negatively effect my lifestyle most of the time other than not being able to drink a beer at social events and I don't make it a habit of trying to confine myself to a certain radius.