Military for 16 years prior to joining Virgin. Joined just prior to 11 Sept 2001 - not good timing! Was caught up in the redundancy thing and often threatened with being thrown out, but as I was on the 744 it was fairly obvious that I was not going to be made redundant after a while. Morale was low, worked very hard and no command prospects. Good people, a few good trips but generally a fairly depressing time.
So I took the voluntary redundancy after 18 months. No regrets about leaving. One thing to remember is that Virgin didn't hesitate to get rid of 40% of the pilot workforce at the drop of a hat. They could do it again if there was more trouble in the future.