You got fired and wound up with better pay and bennies? Damn, your good. Your best bet is to just continue to piss off your bosses, get fired, get that better job and then more money, get fired again, then repeat and repeat and repeat.
Many times people get fired because their bosses are idiots and fear the person they fired might get their jobs. Happens a lot.
“You got fired and wound up with better pay and bennies? “
The trick is being ready to move. The problem with many younger people today is they feel entitled to whatever level of pay they were at, but they don’t want to move. You have to go wherever the jobs are. (However, when I hit my late fifties the final time I got fired was it for regular employment. I did get eighteen months on contract doing a job that had become political poison for the company that had the contract. I loved the heck out of it, though.) But at the time during the Obama cluster fluck suddenly it was VERY hard to get any employment in my field. I ended up retired early.
What you can do and when and for how much is often a product of what your industry and the economy are doing at the time. A rising tide lifts all boats.