Originally Posted by
firefighterplt
Certainly more of an incentive if you are a dues paying employee. It’s a good protection for 121 employees.
If you aren’t, you’re on your own. In other words, if the industry just took a major hit, you haven’t made it to 121 world yet, you’re unemployed, and you find yourself at the bottom of a bottle? Unless you’re independently wealthy, you’re done.
Unfortunately, this will become all too common as the industry continues its slide.
My lesson-learned from tough times in the past (aviation-induced and otherwise): lay off the bottle and go to the gym. In this case you may have to set up your own gym... my living room is working fine for that, since we're really not having company over.