The North Sea situation is making me increasingly worried. I'm going to be a sub 200 hour pilot, with an IR, yet no jobs available.
I find it hard to be sympathetic to this view, anyone who has done any research knows that going the IR route is/was a high risk. and you can mitigate that risk by also getting the FI to ensure you keep flying.
in the 3 years before I joined my former company on the north sea they hired NOBODY, in the year I joined I was just about the last of 40 to join in a year, then it shut down again completely for a while.
the North Sea has always been cyclical and right now we are just in another cycle, thats just how it is.