Lumpawarrump,
For some of us the severity of the risk can be too great...
Eighteen months ago I ended up high and dry with no job as a result of the Government's SDSR.
When you have been down to your last £200 and potentially facing bankruptcy - with everything you've worked for about to evaporate... Well, it tends to focus the priorities.
The price of financial security in my life has been thoroughly ingrained into me ever since as a result...
If it has made me 'financially risk averse' then so be it; but when you have debts from putting yourself through university and a 20k unsecured loan for your CPL/IR - then your job is booted from under you, it makes you look at temporary contracts on offer from the airlines with a slightly more cynical perspective.
I am speechless when I hear about the amount of debt that some of the Integrated blokes have found themselves in... I view their plight with genuine concern.
All I'm saying is 'buyer beware' - but it sounds like the Thomson pilots and BALPA really have tried to level the playing field somewhat.
Good effort!
