I'm SELF EMPLOYED. There's no unemployment benefits for me. No "work from home". My job requires

[BamaRefugee]

Meeting total strangers, face to face, all day every day, 7 days a week.
No tax holiday will help me. There's no sick leave.

If I have to stop working (and I'm sure if testing ever actually begins, I'm living and working in a hotbed of positive testing people), I'll be facing an indefinite future with ZERO INCOME.

I'm sure others here are in a similar situation. What's your plan to cope?

[FirstLight]

1. No idea

It's going to get worse before it gets better 😵🥺😱

[beachbumbob]

2. always a downside when you aren't a W2 employee

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. I wouldn't go back for anything.

Not even an unemployment check.

[beachbumbob]

7. as long as you got efund and all. This situation with the virus will last for months, perhaps to

end of year

[Kind of Blue]

16. +1000 n/t

[RT Atlanta]

3. Similar to you in some respects

And dont really have a current plan.

[Ferrets are Cool]

4. I am pretty much in the same position. It's not a great feeling. nt

[Coventina]

6. This is why I get so mad at holier-than-thou DUers who chastise sick people who have to work.

They have no clue how many of us don't have that option.

[Vinca]

8. We're self-employed, too, but fortunately we also get Social Security because we're old.

Oh - wait - that's not good because old people might die anyway. You just can't win. LOL.

[BamaRefugee]

10. Me too!

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But my rent takes my ENTIRE Social Security check every month. The whole thing. Very small 1 bedroom apartment.

[BigmanPigman]

12. You must live in San Diego.

[BamaRefugee]

15. I wish. San Gabriel Valley.

[superpatriotman]

9. Same here

Maybe I’ll cash in a CD or sell one of my rental properties

[usaf-vet]

11. We are living on Social Security income.

[Woodwizard]

13. Self employed here

70 percent of my income is public art shows. Good chance I will be digging into savings this year.

[grantcart]

14. Same.

Bought sanitizer/wipes to use after each appointment.

The areas I work don't have many cases

The county I am working in has Only one case of someone who caught it in Florida and returned here. No cases yet of anyone transmitting a case here

[Sedona]

17. I'm a Realtor

Independent contractor. If I dont work, I dont eat.

Mr. Sedona is in the film biz here in Atlanta.

No shows shut down here (yet) .

He could get laid off any minute if the film and tv biz here shuts down.