I am a QA consultant and manager with several positions and form 4s behind me, I agree that the industry is now on the low ebb but will come back I am presently in europe on the best deal I have ever had even better than when I was in a not so good middle east country for the last year and a half. Things have to get better because if not there will be a very sharp drop in available signed-off aircraft and the public will (hopefully) realise that they actually have to pay for our(and your) expertise knowledge and experience.