It's all a crapshoot man. We were in the same class, I was the only one to bail. Now I'm looking at a furlough too. No regrets. The QOL improvments alone were worth it.
The point is this, you can't predict anything in this industry. Think about how fast EVERYONE was hiring back when we started at TSA. This continued until the end of last year and everybody went from hiring like mad, to furloughing. Feast or famine.