OK, I've started something here, let me try again ...
They pay more flipping burgers in Macdonalds!
This highlights the point I was trying (failing?) to make - I'm not doing it for the money. I've had highly paid jobs with no life - what's the point, you're only here once ? Fair enough I realise I might never get anywhere with it but if you don't try you never will.
Anyway, wouldn't it be advisable to train while the jobs are scarce so that when the market begins to pickup you are primed and ready to look for jobs? Otherwise, if you wait for the good times to come you will still have to train anyway and then be stuck back in the next lull.
Sounds reasonable to me !