Rock solid advice man. Until you're 50% up the list at your forever job, you're not "safe" and even at that point, you still better be living on FO wages or be able to scale back down to an FO-lifestyle very very quickly.
To those of you on the furlough list at your dream jobs, I honestly envy you. Sabbaticals are something I feel like this career is in desperate need of, but it seems like the only way to get one is to have the economy tank.