Originally Posted by
cargo hopeful
The only thing that matters is LUCK (having a high enough seniority number in the company to avoid a furlough).
Add "...in the
lucky company..."
Luck is everything and nothing is for certain or safe. Delta just merged with NWA, there are 12,000 pilots. Take another major terrorist attack and by Summer there could by 7,000 pilots. Same with NetJets, very safe, but just think what if a lot of their customers already hit by the downturn (or even the company) got caught up on the Ponzi scheme with Bernard Madoff (check googlenews) and then say there was an accident or dirty revelation on the financial or maintenance side and that company could choke too. You couldn't have forseen any of that a month prior. Bad things can happen quickly.
Just diversify as much as possible (and tell us how you did it and do not say real estate) because airplane jobs are at the mercy of a lot of external forces. And that sucks.
Go megamillions.