If these frightening times find you young and unemployed, here’s some advice from a prior downturn: Do anything it takes to get experience, even if that entails accepting a low salary, relocating or taking a detour through Egypt.

San Francisco plaintiffs lawyer Doug Saeltzer, now at Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger, did all three after earning his J.D. from Hastings in the wake of the early 1990s recession.

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