Bandit702

Never got a "Rolling Thunder" going (that would've been nice), but its not hard to avg a 3-day GS a month with 30% seniority. Add in an LCA 3-4 day trip buy every other month + a couple easy 1-2 day WSs and you are there. It is easy to 'throttle' the 717 when senior. Want to chillax this month? No problem drop everything and WS the easy ones. Want to max effort? No problem, bid off for wkds/holidays, blanket GS, watch the WX channel and wait. btw, I'm married with 2 kids under 10 and we took 6 vacations last year of 3-7 days each so you don't have to be a QOL hating unic to make that happen. It has its cons like every other category, but I meet a lot of guys who assume it would be a pay cut which isn't necessarily true.