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I've done it twice. I'm sure every county does it differently but here when you're called for jury duty it's a 3 week run. Usually you go every other day unless you're actually selected for a trial. The rest of the time you report in the morning then sit in a room with all the other potential jurors. When they need a jury they call names, you file into the courtroom and the lawyers select 12 and an alternate. If you're not selected, back to the room to sit.
Most days after lunch they come in and tell you they don't need anyone else and send you home. They did pay you, $8 a day at the time, which usually didn't quite cover what I had to pay to park in downtown Cincinnati. The second time I was called my employer, who is required to pay me same as if I'd been at work, made me give them the money I was paid by the court so I actually lost a little money.
Got a lot of reading done, though. Also on the one case for which I did sit on the jury was a drug possession charge so we got to pass a bag of crack around during deliberation. No doggy bag, alas.
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