I want Quality Of Work Life, where is it?
04-22-2019 | 11:29 AM
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Living in base will always be hard to beat. The 2 weeks at home though offers a certain freedom that doing 3-4 on and 3 off can't. I think some people discount it as a no starter too quickly, but you are correct, it simply is a no starter for some.
04-22-2019 | 01:30 PM
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No kids and no spouse (or an independent one), then two weeks on, two off wouldn't be bad at all.
04-22-2019 | 02:16 PM
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I can drive to work. I can also make two weeks off happen without vacay if I need it. Two weeks gone might be OK with older kids (who can drive themselves), but for younger ones it's hard on them, and also on a working spouse who has to suck it up and handle everything. My wife can usually punt a lot of things for a few days until I get home.
No kids and no spouse (or an independent one), then two weeks on, two off wouldn't be bad at all.
No kids and no spouse (or an independent one), then two weeks on, two off wouldn't be bad at all.
04-22-2019 | 06:39 PM
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My wife is also a stay home homemaker.... beats the heck out of having children raised by others.
04-23-2019 | 11:32 AM
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My wife chose to quit her job and home school our kids. Sure, no problem. 7 years after our youngest left home for college I finally talked her into go back to work. I shouldn't complain, it was nice coming home with dinner ready to be served. Need things taken care of during the day, no issue, she had the free time.
04-23-2019 | 04:14 PM
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Are you saying you combine the 2 weeks off with the occasional use of a vacation week too? Or is the "over transition" something else? Genuinely curious...
04-23-2019 | 04:19 PM
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The system wouldn't typically let you bid 2-3 weeks off straight in a given month, because you wouldn't be legal to cram a whole months worth of flying into a handful of days.
But if you load up the front of say May, and the back of the June you might well be able to bid a lot of days off at the end of May, say 7-10 and then do the same for the front of Jun.
You're still legal, although busy, in early May and late Jun but you got your required hours for both months and 2-3 weeks off too. No vacation involved.
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