Originally Posted by ThumbsUp

1. 13 days off will get you guarantee. How it’s minced up is dependent on how you bid and your relative seniority.

2. What your schedule looks like varies with how proficient you are with PBS (it’s on par with programming in FORTRAN and equally archaic), what the breakdown of 1,2,3,4-day trips are and a lot of other factors. Even as a junior lineholder, though, I never felt like I got something that I thought was terrible. I also used a PBS service when I was new to get the programming language down.