What if you walk into the job you've been working for the last 2, 4, 6, 8 years and tomorrow senior management told you that the direction the company is moving in is one that can’t accommodate you and that you should pack your things by noon, and someone will escort you off the premises?
Where would you go? What would you do? How prepared are you to move on? Do you depend on that check so much that if you had to live without a job for the next 1, 2, 5 years, you would be in the handout lines? The answer is probably a resounding yes.