Topic: Would you be able to take an additional work if required? - page 7. (Read 1012 times)

Due to pandemic I have stop working since the company temporarily close for operation. I do online selling now and doing trading. There are many online jobs that we can apply with but these doesn't guarantee in long term so having back ups or side hustle will help to survive and paid our bills. We’re still lucky that we know crypto that we can trade or have jobs related in it.

I always make use of Wikipedia, 'list of countries by minimum wage' to check each countries minimum wage which I think is frequently updated if there is any changes in the minimum wage in any of the country listed. You can check Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria and many African countries, it will be easy to know how poor they are in Africa. It will surprise many people to know that a signature campaign on this forum pays more than minimum wage jobs in those countries, the hope many people from such countries have are online jobs, it may not be signature campaign, signature campaign may also just be as an extra income, but some people might be left with no option than even the signature campaign, some are just gathering some amount to start a legit business of their own. That is why citizens from such poor countries want to travel out to US (their main target), Canada and Australia.

I think the situation is almost the same in my country. People struggling to make money and they do many things to survive the hard situations. Some friends have positive Covid-19 and make us donate something to them and make sure that they can still survive and make their hearts stronger day by day.

It is a difficult situation for every people in all countries, but if we can try hard to survive and still help each other, I believe this pandemic will be over soon. We can help the government by following their suggestion and make their job is not too difficult and together, we will have a better situation than this.

I am grateful that I can still make money to survive and help some friends who needed. I wish I can still do more for them because I know how it feels to be in their position.

I used to do labor work, installing floors. Which isn't the type of work people usually enjoy. Hopefully I could find employment doing something similar if worse came to worse.

Strange things appear to be occurring in labor markets in the USA. Jobs are being lost at a record pace. Employees are blaming management and corporate execs for it. While the media blames employees. Everyone is pointing the finger at everyone else. There doesn't seem to be a clear consensus of what the cause and effect is. Many businesses admit they are understaffed while many unemployed applying for jobs are unable to find work. Its a parody of healthcare providers claiming they are overflowing to capacity with COVID-19 patients with one breath. While firing nurses and staff for refusing the COVID vaccine with the next.

Semiconductor shortages, HDD manufacturers saying warranties are void if the hardware is used to mine chia coin and now we have gigabyte exploding power units. There are so many strange things happening everywhere its hard to keep track.

I have a few sidelines which might be expanded into providing full time income. But TBH I wouldn't know until I tried. Hope everyone is doing well out there.

I wouldn't be able to do any of the above--and personally I detest most professional Youtubers, as I think they're just phonies who think they're "influencers".  I'm not sure what working with crypto means exactly, but if you're talking about starting up things like ICO-related projects or some other development, I don't have the technical knowledge to do that kind of work.

But yes, if I needed another job right now I'm sure I could find something easily.  Right now in the US, I think most people would rather stay home and collect government money than work for a living, which means that job vacancies are in abundance. 

I couldn't imagine that in the US, but in other countries where the cost of living is much less, sure.  But I don't know what country you're referring to, so a situation like that could be a complete disaster for most people.  And if you're making $75/month, I bet signature campaigns look very attractive and it's no wonder so many people have found this forum (which is both good and bad).

We are already required to take overtimes and take some other admin stuff that we usually don't handle given that we work in the more science-y part of the company.

It's kinda hard knowing that our company already laid off a lot of admin workers and distributed their workloads to us mere handlers of samples and whatnot. The increase in pay is already very minimal in proportion to what workload was added, but I can't really complain much given that I still have a stable job despite being our country struck hard by the pandemic.

I still keep some other things on the side for my additional income even if I don't really need it. I never know when I would be the next in line to be asked to leave. The medical industry is one of the top performing industries currently in this pandemic, but even us who handle bulk of the testing of samples here in the country is still in a very precarious position given the shortness of budget and economic difficulties of the country. Add to that the growing pains of corruption.

It is my country that the incumbent president says gratuates should learn how to provide for themselves with learning of skilled works, the government are not ready to provide employment, even if they are ready, they do not yet know how to provide enough job for citizens. When education just started in my country, people that went to school did not look for job, it was jobs that were looking for them, but the case is now different, most gratuates in my country now do not get employed, or do not have option than to be underemployed. Could you imagine  the minimum wage in my country is less than $75 monthly, less than $18 weekly for someone that left his home and resume work at 8 am and worked till 4 pm in the evening. Even some states are still complaining they can not meet that amount.

It always just paining me that some people do not just find themselves online and live a life they do not want offline as online works is far better than many jobs in my country. Yet, online jobs are better because you will have enough time for yourself, most of the work makes you feel bossy even if you are not the boss, unlike a boss controlling employees in the office. One thing I also still notice is that working online making someone to think smarter and also finding ways to more establish yourself. But yet, a lot of opportunities have evolved after the creation of Bitcoin that gives job opportunities to people.

A few of my friends are struggling to get a job. They are in their mid-lives and the country they live in is particularly difficult to find a job at a certain age. Also, when some recovery was being noticed after the 2008 - 2012 crisis, COVID struck hard on an economy with a strong tourism sector. Meanwhile, I made some choices that landed me an stable and reasonably paid job that also leaves enough time to do other stuff that generates income or reduces my costs if I wish to do so.

What is the situation in your country and for yourself? Would you be able to land additional work for example working with crypto, selling stuff on-line, youtubing or something else?