The downside is when flying after midnight. It isn't fun to be awake when every cell in your body calls for sleep. Flying through the night and arriving at destinations in different time zones translates into accumulated fatigue. I can never get used to being up all night, it's physiologically unnatural. Flying 8 hours through the night always seems longer than flying 10 hours during the day.
Flying during daylight hours is the best part and the most fun about the job.
I'm far from being or becoming bored during the 15 days (not all consecutive) off each month; lots of reading to catch up on when the wife doesn't want to go to the Mall, or when the kids don't need to be picked up at band practice.
