I have been made redundant a number of times as a pilot in O&G. After a while you sort of accept it as part of the job. The pay for my generation was always acceptable and I always had a buffer until I found work elsewhere - often outside of UK. But I was always amused at how the Aberdeen and other UK-based crews thought of themselves as superior to the plebs in other parts of the world. Possibly because most of them had never worked anywhere else. Simply having a Part A that doubles in size every few years does not mean that the operation is getting better.