Originally Posted by
likeitis
In other words while other pilots from your airline are eating gov't cheese you are cashing in your vacation and picking up open time. Marvelous!
It's awesome you know what's going on at my airline; we've recalled everyone and are set to hire in the spring. So I don't have any qualms about picking up time, and I figured this time would pay for my online classes (I'm going back to school, after dropping out like a moron in college to go work at a flight instructing job in California, dumb, dumb, DUMB!!!).
And for working, since we have trip touching, and I'm dumb and didn't realize I had vacation, I couldn't get any more days off then 5 (long story, it all primary but since I took 6 months off, I lost a few days and it just snuck up on me).