IT IS ALWAYS A RISK CONDUCTING FLIGHT TRAINING. ALWAYS HAS BEEN ALWAYS WILL BE, REGARDLESS OF THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK AT THE TIME. I have never said anything else and never will.
See I can't agree with that.
I have yet to meet young guys in their 20's with CPL IR ME who have tossed the towel and have left for another job. That happened temporarily to those who were unlucky to graduate just after 9/11 but even most of them have found their way to an airliner cockpit somehow by now.
If you have a fATPL and can keep it current, someday you'll get a job somewhere. No doubt about that.
How soon depends on what you have and what you do for it.