If there is a recession on, your CV has an 18 month whole in it where you were in flying training and you are badly in debt you may find that the only job you can get that pays and pays next week is flipping burgers.
At a time of rising unemployment an employer has his pick of applicants and current staff stop resigning and switching jobs as they lose length of service protections.
I know people who has CPL IR's and Frzn ATPLs but <500hrs in the 1991/2/3 period who were working as window cleaners and van drivers.
I'm not talking theory but historical fact and it will happen again.
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