Question for pilots

I will chime in.
Schedules vary from what kind of pilot you’re talking to. There is corporate style and it can very often be an on call basis and you may only “fly” 100 or so hours a year. Or you may be on a rotating schedule. Most airline pilots will bid schedules based on seniority. So a senior pilot will get to pick the better schedules. International pilots usually do long haul flying so it can often be one 7-18 hour flight then stay in a hotel a few days to up to a week then fly back. Days off can vary depending on the schedule received and regulations require time off after working so many days. Hotel time is yours to do as you please. Cargo flying can be long flights and long schedules. Some do 14 days on then a few off.
Hope that answers some of the questions.

I suddenly want to be a pilot so I can travel the world :(

I knew a couple of pilots for an American airline co. At that time, the larger airlines would have pilots fly 3 flights over ~3 days (if in the US, 3 days; international flights would screw with this). Then they'd get a day or so off, then fly again; at the tightest, you'd have 3 days of flying, one day off, then repeat.

As one of them explained, this schedule meant that, if you too every 4th day off, you could get a whole month of vacation by taking 7-8 days, spaced in that fashion.

For the more local/regional airlines, I think you flew more hours, but I don't know how they scheduled you. By local/regional, I mean, e.g., Republic Airlines--which used to operate here in the Midwest; one of these pilots flew for it before it merged with Northwest--where they would do closed loop routes such as

Lansing, MI
-> Grand Rapids, MI or Traverse City, MI
-> Green Bay, WI
-> Chicago/Midway, IL
-> Jackson, MI
-> Detroit, MI
-> start (Lansing, MI)

I asked my friend this. He told me that his schedule is pretty much 13-17 hours a day, and 7 days a week. He gets 7-14 days off during the month.