Hopefully you will be one of the luckiest pilots ever that hasn't had to endure a career force majeure event, oil price shock, global recession, strike, merger. Hopefully the company won't hire a "scab" to replace you as you demand scope/raise in the future. Hopefully your management doesn't make a series of strategic blunders causing your company to either teeter near or enter BK protection, force a merger, etc.

And if your 55 and one of these things has happened to you..... I hope your able to find this post and remember how much you hated hearing about the brining up of history that you are being forced to endure.