The first site collects good news every day it posts the good things that are happening around the world in the fight against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- It is great to see stories about things like:<\/li>
- After two full weeks of social isolation, doctors in the Bay Area in the United States are cautiously optimistic that the measures are working. The number of cases is lower than they expected by this time. Politico<\/li>
- The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation just announced they will be donating extra equipment to European hospitals, including 800 ventilators, 300,000 sets of protective gowns and 300,000 face shields. Twitter<\/li>
- Social media company TikTok is donating $10 million to the WHO\u2019s Solidarity Response Fund, which sends essential supplies to frontline healthcare workers, and accelerates efforts to develop treatments and vaccines. Ad Week<\/li>
- Chefs for America, led by celebrity chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, is now serving 350,000 free meals a week in New York, Oakland, New Orleans, Miami, Boston, and Madrid, and is ramping up to feed half a million in the next few weeks. Chefs for America<\/li>
- And dozens of more good news stories<\/li>
- Brooks Brothers is converting its New York, Massachusetts and North Carolina factories from making ties and shirts to making masks and gowns, and will start making 150,000 masks a day. NY Post<\/li>
- Airbnb says it will provide free or subsidized housing for 100,000 frontline healthcare workers and first response professionals. Tech Crunch<\/li>
- Google has announced a coronavirus package with $340 million in ad credits to small and medium-sized businesses, $250 million in ad grants to the WHO and other government agencies, and $15 million in cash grants for nonprofits to help bridge budgetary gaps.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
You can see a lot more good news here: https:\/\/futurecrun.ch\/coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
While some of that fear is real, most of it is sensationalized to get people addicted to following the news all day long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The result is you can spend too much time doing that rather than trying to do what you can to fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most important thing to do now is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FOCUS ON WHAT YOU CAN DO, NOT ON WHAT YOU CAN\u2019T.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
More good news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
LOTS OF JOB OPENINGS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The following site lists more than 900 companies that are hiring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A friend of mine just sent me a link to over 900 companies that are now hiring. It seems to get updated regularly so keep checking back in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can sort these on \u201cstatus\u201d from \u201cfirst to last\u201d to find all of the ones that are hiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nhttps:\/\/candor.co\/hiring-freezes\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI just spotted another article that shows more than 1 million job openings <\/strong>in \u201cessential\u201d businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/retailers-hiring-people-coronavirus-demand-2020-3\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI know many of these jobs don\u2019t pay what you were making but cash flow is better than nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can do these jobs while you spend your evenings and weekends looking for a more ideal job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just like an airline can\u2019t sell an empty seat on an airplane after it has taken off, you can\u2019t get paid for last week\u2019s time if you didn\u2019t work. That time is gone forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So some money is better than no money.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Care Act will pay some amount but not enough to live on or pay for your rent or house payment month after month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While there is hope the economy will turn around soon, you got to make contingency plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve mentored hundreds of unemployed people and getting them to take quick action has been the biggest challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Too many were in denial, hoping the economy would turn around and they\u2019d get their old jobs back. And they didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don\u2019t know the future, the length of this crisis, or what is on the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We can hope for the best but need to prepare for the worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take action now before you are in an overwhelming personal financial crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ALSO, DON\u2019T BE AFRAID TO PIVOT.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes you might need to change careers either for a while or permanently.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The average person changes careers (not just jobs) 5-7 times in their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
- I changed careers many times:<\/li>
- I started out as a manufacturing engineer<\/li>
- Then an entrepreneur<\/li>
- Then a programmer<\/li>
- Next a design engineer<\/li>
- then a computer retailer<\/li>
- After that a design engineer again<\/li>
- Then a telecom engineer<\/li>
- Then a management consultant<\/li>
- Then a marketing consultant<\/li>
- Now I\u2019m a mentor, product developer, and a writer<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
We will make it through this time as long as we take action quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Dan Swanson is an entrepreneur, design engineer, mentor, and writer. He has had 24 mentors over his long career and has mentored over 250 people one-on-one. He is the co-inventor of Wi-Fi hotspots. He\u2019s helped 6,000 people start their own businesses. He has created more than 50 products and 70 services. He also helped his clients generate more than $3.9 billion in new revenues and saved them more than $11 billion in operating costs. If you\u2019d like to see if Dan might be the right person to help you, email him at mentor@acresofdiamonds.net<\/a>.
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AuthorDan Swanson<\/a>Posted onApril 1, 2020<\/a>CategoriesSide Gigs<\/a>, Surviving the Crisis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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