Southernm.. somewhere in your ramblings is this line "make yourself more indispensable so that you will not be the first to go." Not sure if you are in the airline, but how the ef does one make themselves "indespensable" as an expat. Have you achieved this exulted status? Maybe your a LIP, a CRM facilitator, a brown nosing boot licking guy with the airline, but you sure aint "indispensable" to this airline. You might not be the first "to go" if your'e a 4th floor lurking, CRM spouting lizard, but you will be the second.