I was visiting Central America when things started getting bad. I was told I could work from here, but now I'm told I either have to travel home (US) or lose my job. Based off this thread, I might take that risk of traveling home.
Ask HN: Who has been laid off?
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#102I got laid off last Friday in the middle of going over the test scenarios for a product launch this coming week. As a relatively new product manager, I'm curious to see how the prospects are against much more senior PMs.
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I'm sorry to hear that dude. Haskell is a demanding language, so you're almost certainly a pretty senior dev. If so, consider volunteering to help organizations during the downtime. Worst case, if you can't get that dream gig back it will certainly make your resume stand out when you're looking for your next thing. Best of luck.
Where can people volunteer with tech skills? Is there a demand for it?
https://crowdfightcovid19.org/
This is aimed at scientists, but my wife is on the list and tells me that they are looking for UX designers and software developers.
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#104I woke up today with a nice surprise from HR. I got laid off. It was the most impersonal and robotic email I received. 20 minutes later all my accounts got disabled, not a chance to even say farewell to my nice co-workers. It sucks. I don't have a ton of savings. Luckily my car is paid off, and I only have student loans left. I was very tempted to inflate my lifestyle after I got a big raise. I didn't do it, otherwis…
I'm not sure if you are in the US, but if you are apply for unemployment and apply now. The sooner you do it the longer your savings will last. And having gone through this before, you need to cut spending to the bone. Beyond not going out to eat since that is handled, but see if you can reduce your car insurance, drop online recurring services, etc.
That's a great advice.
Yes I am in the US.I will start that application right now.
I panic paid off my car insurance just in case things get worse. I'll shop for a cheaper phone plan.
Gym memberships, online streaming and frivolous stuff will go.
Capitalism for the win.
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#105[UK] Not me but my partner—classical music. Almost everyone is freelance, and everyone has had all their gigs cancelled for the next few months, leaving a lot of people for whom strings were tight to begin with in complete limbo. Performers obviously but also all the events, management, publicity, everything. The scale of it is almost incomprehensible, unless massive investment is made in the sector to keep it alive,…
Or severely deflate. The instruments and people and equipment will still be there, just much much cheaper to get. Companies will be owned by defaulted bonds rather than stocks.
These aren't companies. Most are charities. The Royal Opera House will be fine, the hundreds of smaller music organisations will not.
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#106I woke up today with a nice surprise from HR. I got laid off. It was the most impersonal and robotic email I received. 20 minutes later all my accounts got disabled, not a chance to even say farewell to my nice co-workers. It sucks. I don't have a ton of savings. Luckily my car is paid off, and I only have student loans left. I was very tempted to inflate my lifestyle after I got a big raise. I didn't do it, otherwis…
You can stop your student loans completely. I went a very long time without paying them when I was unemployed.
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#108I was supposed to intern at Shopify Canada this summer. I'm free for next three months and would love to work on some interesting projects or remotely. https://github.com/shashanoid
Did shopify cancel co-ops?
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#109[UK] Not me but my partner—classical music. Almost everyone is freelance, and everyone has had all their gigs cancelled for the next few months, leaving a lot of people for whom strings were tight to begin with in complete limbo. Performers obviously but also all the events, management, publicity, everything. The scale of it is almost incomprehensible, unless massive investment is made in the sector to keep it alive,…
Yeah, I've seen this too from the perspective of some friends in classical music. I don't think it will die in the sense that noone will put on or attend classical music performances anymore, but longtime institutions that were homes for it will go away, and performers will go into other work, so when all's said and done I imagine it will quite a smaller field than it was, fewer people in it, less money in it for anyone to make a living off of, fewer opportunities and performances. But who knows.
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#110My wife, who was doing office admin and CRM management for a lawyer/marketer couple. Their work has dried up a bit, and they moved a young adult son back home to help deal with isolation and his own layoff.
She's looking for remote work in CRM operations, part-time. Or local to the Philadelphia suburbs.