In some countries where there are avaliable jobs, we have people working on 1, 2, 3 jobs so for such a person he already have an alternative and can easily switch for a better offer no problem.
What is a problem is when you quite your job, without any alternative, i mean you enrolled yourself into the unemployed academy, also is important to develop some skills amd training, that way when youare out of job, you have something to fall back to.
Ops can you include a link to your quote as a form of reference.