I've been lucky to experience this a few times. I graduated college in 1992 and decided to go to grad school partly because of the recession. When I got out o

I've been lucky to experience this a few times. I graduated college in 1992 and decided to go to grad school partly because of the recession. When I got out of grad school in 1994 I went into the defense industry (cool job building realtime control systems) which was hemorrhaging jobs because of the "Peace Dividend". We had folks with 20 years of hard core experience basically begging for jobs when they opened.