After Midway he became a salesman for a Ford dealer, then got on at MarkAir and was in the sim when they went bankrupt the first time in '92 and furloughed. He went out and bought his 737 type rating and then got on at a startup based in SLC called Morris Air, it was a refugee camp of furloughed airline pilots with guys from Midway, Eastern, PanAm, and America West. It was purchased by Southwest in late 1993 all of the pilots were stapled, treated as new hires, placed on probation, stripped of their Morris longevity and given dates of hire on 1/1/94. The only thing they did get was pay protection for the captains of which my dad was one, they kept their Morris captain rates even as FOs. He would upgrade there in four years and punch out early at 61 years old in 2012.
All that being said he still says it was the best thing that ever happened in his career. A career that spanned eight airlines*, two mergers, and three bankruptcy/furloughs.
In my opinion the early 90s was the absolute worst time to be an airline pilot. From the Eastern strike which started in March of '89 there was BN II that went under in September that year. Then after Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990 the wheels really came off. Midway, and PanAm would be bankrupt the next year and liquidate along with what was left of Eastern. Plus TWA, America West, and Continental were all operating in chapter 11 and shedding pilots as well.
@Richman did I miss any?
*you can make it 9 if you count a few weeks of training at UPS between BN and Midway in the fall of 1989 but UPS back then was a whole different animal and his friend there told him he would leave for Midway as well given the chance.