I've been picked once for jury duty. It was a royal pain. This was while I was still working. If it had been a few years later after I retired, it wouldn't have been such a headache.
I was picked as part of a pool of about 50-100 people and had to sit through three jury selection processes, where I was actually interviewed or voir dired as they say in the law, to sit on a jury once. Once you're picked for the jury pool here, it's for four months unless you're chosen for a jury, then you can be excused from jury duty after the trial is over. At least that's the way it is here. I have no idea if that's standard practice everywhere.
When I was voir dired, the judge asked me if I had any particular bias toward or against law enforcement. I told them my son-in-law is a police officer in the city where the trial was being held. They excused me from that trial.
BUT even after that, I had to call in every Sunday night to see if there was going to be a jury trial the following week that I would have to appear at for jury selection. The phone was answered by an automated recording, telling me whether I had to appear or not. Most of the time, the trial had been plead out.
This went on for four long months. Like I said, I was called in to sit in the jury pool three times over that 4 months. Every time I was called to the courthouse, I received a check in the mail for $15. Whoopdey-do. If I had been selected for a jury, the fee would have gone up to I think it was $35 every day I was on the panel. Whoopdey-effing-do
