Originally Posted by Sideshow Bob

There by the grace of [enter higher power of your choice] go I.

By the time I was 33 I was on my fifth carrier due to "moving up", furloughs, bad management, etc. and so I know all to well the need to have a job to pay the bills until something better comes along. I was at Kalitta in the early/mid-90's just as Teamsters was coming on the property. Connie's response was ultimately let the airline fall into "ruins" so as to sell off the majority of the assets to Kittyhawk, and then buy back the whales for pennies on the dollar at a more (that being now) convenient time. While unions, like democracy are not perfect, they are IMO the best system to minimize (not eliminate) the wanton greed and avarice of most airline manglement for those of us to lazy to get "real" jobs like junk bond broker, crack dealer or California realtor.

There are a butt-load of guys and gals out on furlough, underemployed and/or had bad interview days with idiot HR types like at my commuter in the '80's who valued C152 time more than C141 time because it was a bigger number. SO, unless you want to sell junk bonds, over priced real estate or crack in the Bronx and you've done nothing but flying over the years, of course you take the JB job for Pete's sake.

That being said, unless you are a complete koolaid junkie and believe the BS that JB management is selling you at your expense, I'd not strut around too much that you are going to run everybody else out of business and then double your wages.