Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Pilots tend not to understand this. Once you've made it in the white-collar world... then you have to keep it. Every day. Every single day. And that includes days off.
Frankly if you're a highly paid, highly experienced (translation: old) worker you're either a rockstar or a target. Somebody can fire you, hire a 20-something for 1/3 your pay, and then claim a $15K bonus on their annual evaluation for efficiency.
That's what happened to my dad. He was a manager level and got comfortable then with 5 years until a full retirement, they laid him off.