The pilots wanting to come here and asking "How easily can I drop trips to make this a part time job?" - they need to read this thread! When I was hired, the captain in the interview told me that the expectation on reserve should be that I will get used every day and that once I held a line than the normal would be 4x4 day trips per month and likely the flying that nobody else wanted. He also mentioned that there were a couple of ways to get "artificial" seniority - 1: live in base 2: get really good at PBS.