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Why Lying May Help You Find A Remote Job During Coronavirus
I have been off the job market for at least 2 years, because I have been focusing on my SEO Tech Startup and what was a successful event business. I work everyday, but on smaller consulting gigs and small businesses, not big corporate projects.
As you know the physical in-person events business is done for 2020. Even though I am the tech guy in the event business, which was booming right up till March 1st, 2020 I am impacted. There are little to no sales. And there won’t be in-person sales for a quite a while. I still have to do work and there is no pay at least for a couple months.
We are working on an online version of this event, but that will still take some time. My other startup business takes time to develop, so sales are pretty crappy on that side of my work. So for me, there is a bit of a gap in my income this year that I need to fill.
And if this situation continues for the rest of the 2020, I will be losing $40k to $60k in earnings this year, and I really don’t make much than that. But there could be a silver lining to this coronavirus craziness.
I was looking around at job sites and realized that the one big thing that kept me from getting a decent full-time job back two or three years ago was the fact that very few companies would hire me remote. My…
