A couple of years ago, the company I worked for abruptly went out of business (like, I came into work on Monday and they said, “we’re closed effectively immediately, go home, we’ll e-mail you severance details”). I sent out about a dozen resumes, got two interviews, flunked the first and got an offer at the second - the whole process took about two weeks and I was no longer unemployed. I was on good terms with one of the VP’s at that company, who also lives close to me - I ran into him about a year later and I asked him how things were and he said, “well, I’m still looking for a job…” We were both around the same age (over 40, anyway) - I’m not so sure management is as unemployment-proof as some of us have been led to believe.