The first time getting laid off or fired is always scary and stressful. I know this sounds trite and stupid, but try to _relax_. Now is the time to start thinking strategically, and you'll have a harder time doing that while pumped full of adrenaline.
Your full time job is now to find a job (or more specifically: ways to bring in money). That means 8h a day of concerted job search. The market is not favorable atm, but it's also not anywhere near impossible. I got laid off twice while living on a farm (30m from the nearest gas station), but always managed to find something remote, even if it was sometimes suboptimal (and this was before remote was really a thing).
Think of the different ways you can make money. Perhaps reach out to your network to see if any consulting gigs are coming up. One-off projects have a tendency to go over, or turn into other projects. Maybe something international will work, even if the work hours end up being a bit lopsided? Of course keep at the regular employment game as well, but now you need to be thinking creatively. Yeah, you could work at a pizza joint or something, but chances are also pretty high that these smallish businesses are having computer troubles that you could fix for a reasonable fee.
You have skills and knowledge, and those are valuable to businesses in the right context.
Next up is saving money. Most people can save an incredible amount of money on food by changing how they cook. Like cooking from base ingredients using an easy cooking method like a slow cooker or pressure cooker, in large batches that you can freeze, making your own bread, etc. Most of the kitchen tools you'd need are available at the nearest second hand shop for dirt cheap. There's a reddit for living frugally. I forget the exact name, but there's lots of good advice to be had.
>Next up is saving money. Most people can save an incredible amount of money on food by changing how they cook.
Fortunately we are fine on food. We have over a year of food in our pantry and make everything from scratch already :). We'll get food out for birthdays, valentines day, and our anniversary next month (we always get BW3 on our anniversary because we had it the night before we were married). We don't have to buy anything but just $10-15 of fresh produce a week makes a world of difference to our food storage. We were also lucky enough to already have all of our seeds for this year too and we always keep a few years of lids on hand.
Your full time job is now to find a job (or more specifically: ways to bring in money). That means 8h a day of concerted job search. The market is not favorable atm, but it's also not anywhere near impossible. I got laid off twice while living on a farm (30m from the nearest gas station), but always managed to find something remote, even if it was sometimes suboptimal (and this was before remote was really a thing).
Think of the different ways you can make money. Perhaps reach out to your network to see if any consulting gigs are coming up. One-off projects have a tendency to go over, or turn into other projects. Maybe something international will work, even if the work hours end up being a bit lopsided? Of course keep at the regular employment game as well, but now you need to be thinking creatively. Yeah, you could work at a pizza joint or something, but chances are also pretty high that these smallish businesses are having computer troubles that you could fix for a reasonable fee.
You have skills and knowledge, and those are valuable to businesses in the right context.
Next up is saving money. Most people can save an incredible amount of money on food by changing how they cook. Like cooking from base ingredients using an easy cooking method like a slow cooker or pressure cooker, in large batches that you can freeze, making your own bread, etc. Most of the kitchen tools you'd need are available at the nearest second hand shop for dirt cheap. There's a reddit for living frugally. I forget the exact name, but there's lots of good advice to be had.