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I'm sorry cause such a circumstance. Unfortunately, the point is the only way to earn a stable income through online jobs, we'd need to be IT experts. As foreign companies are used to only hire these kinds of online workers. If our skills come from the arts and literature, we must rely on paid to tasks offered by platforms like publish0x, blurt, hive, steemit, PTP forums, online surveys (even if this latter task only favours people owning a good job position, especially if they live in a top tier country), pay to watch videos and similar.
The same here: COVID has stolen me almost all my students. A lot of times, online tasks are my only source of income. If I'm not starving despite my various superior qualifications (but I consider and understand none of them comes from the IT area, so I can't expect that much, especially considering in my geographic area, average people are so futile at the point their education and worse, their children's education, it their last worry in this world), I owe my discreet living (even a lot of time in downshifting mode) to my parents. They had left a small inheritance I rely on, as my small business (my online tasks constitute the biggest part of my small business) can't earn a monthly living. And my husband's income is smaller than mine. But I must be utterly careful toward each single cent I spend, as in my current country it's likely we won't see any public pension (or, at least, I and my husband could see a miserable pension, but only at 76 years old and I'm sure I won't be alive at that age cause my health is not that big deal). So the small inheritance must last during our third age all. If the Social Security in my country could last as it is (impossible, due to the tons of informality: half of the young and healthy people here, in their good condition to work, usually semi-illiterate, they prefer by far the informality to the legal jobs/VAT or they prefer to rely on their grandparents' income/pensions, charity and so on), we could live better than we do, spending more to live more comfortably and take care of our illnesses as we should do). Instead, I must leave into investments for the third age as much as possible. Well, I know my circumstances are very curious, compared with the majority of the people.
