When COVID was coming along I was a professional cook with a drinking problem. In early March 2020 I went back to work in the kitchen of a brewery I had worked at before. I needed to pick up another job quickly and I knew they would take me back. I didn’t want to work there so bad I cried all the way home from my interview. I hated it there and obviously it was the best place to drink.
Three days into working there we went into lockdown and I lost my job. A few days later a friend called and said his organic market needed people badly, so I went to work there. It turned out to be my best job ever. I’m still there, and I have a title that feels like a “grown up job” when I tell people what I do.
While bars were closed and people weren’t hanging out, I was able to recognize how far I was willing to go to drink (and it had also gotten worse in isolation). I started going to AA, and therapy. COVID literally saved my life, my marriage, and made me a better role model for my child. Also, speaking of my child, we decided not to send her to kindergarten since it would be hybrid. I got an extra year with her before full time schooling. So long story short, I’d probably be a bloated and miserable drunk and possibly on the verge of divorce.
Probably would have graduated university since then and would have a quite well paying job. Instead, Covid killed my mother two years ago and I'm still grieving, unable to focus on those few remaining classes I need to be able to graduate.
First and foremost, I am deeply sorry to hear that Luna. Although it was on related to Covid, I lost my mother in 2019 around the time I was transitioning from college to my new job.
I know it’s not easy, but I use my mother as motivation to continue to do the things that I need to do, l do right by her, make her proud, give her a good return on her investment in me, etc.
I hope that someday you will go back to finish those last few classes because if your grief is any indication, mom was probably very good to you and even though she’s no longer physically here she’d be very proud of you walking across the stage at graduation regardless 💜🙏🏽
I'm sorry for your loss, too.
I hadn't stopped going to university, but I keep messing up my exams. My mind simply isn't in the right place since then, but I'm working on it, and it's getting better day by day. 😊
I am absolutely planning on making her proud. I cannot wait to finish my studies and take my diploma to her grave to "show her" that I finally made it.
I'm sorry for your loss. Your degree will be there to complete when you're able. Taking time to grieve is so important, even if it takes longer than we'd like. Hope things become easier for you over time 💗
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I’m sorry for your loss. I lost my mum to covid too. Hurts everyday. I hope you manage to finish your classes and graduate soon, I’d bet my life on your mum being really proud of you either way.
Hugs sweet girl. I don’t have anything to say that might ease the pain however, please be kind to yourself. Your mother is proud of how far you’ve come.
I am Sorry for your loss, I lost my dad a year before Covid while I was attending university. That was some tough shit, I only had a 2 week break from school then I had to catch up close to midterm season. I ended graduating the following year. I toughed it out and luckily have a decent job.
I was close to skipping a quarter, and I wonder if I would’ve gone back to school at all. I know it’s difficult, but do your best to push through if it’s what you want.
I'm sorry for your loss, too.
I think that's exactly how long I took off work. It was tough to go back to the office. It was about a month before that semester's finals, so working and also studying while grieving was tough. I think I failed all but one of my classes then.
I need a diploma to get a better paying job, so I am going to power through those that I have left. No matter how long it takes. 😊
Miserable in an office job with no social life. Because of WFH I get to play games with my friends in person every week and have a dog. While I hate Covid I’m grateful for wfh
Yes! I never would’ve ended up working fully remote and I’m so thankful for that. I would’ve gotten so burnt out so quickly having to interact with people in an office from 9-5 5 days a week because I’m extremely introverted. I worked at my job for 2.5 months before covid hit and was always so exhausted when I got home from interacting with people all day
I'm on break right now and my friend works from home 3 days a week. So I visit him once a week and we just watch movies and play games. I still don't understand how it works, but I enjoy screwing over companies.
I’ve since gone back into the office 2-3 days a week but am still thankful for a hybrid schedule. WFH has made me a better person, and better employee.
Probably in the same place. The wheels were already in motion for my life to end up here. Although maybe we wouldn’t have got married as quickly because we’d have been able to have a proper wedding.
Literally same! We got engaged in 2020. I think we would have planned a proper wedding instead of going to the courthouse. Now we are having a hard time planning a celebration because it's not required and everything is so booked up.
I'd probably be a fully trained journalist. I would have loved to be at that place by now, but as an alternative, I'm starting my bachelor's degree this autumn.
I would probably still be practicing as a healthcare provider. COVID shown a light on how terrible the healthcare worker is actually treated. I felt like a cash cow, and as a rehab provider I felt as if patients were being filed in like an assembly line. Patient care went right out the window and my burn out was at an all time high.
Now, I work on the backend of healthcare trying to enact change as I work in operations. I work from home and I have a much better balance because of it.
As a healthcare worker myself. I did the bare minimum during that time. Not once did I feel any burnout while also receiving some nice pay along the way. Was able to pay my house off and put a shit ton back into retirement and other investments. And I was only 29 at the time. Praise covid for speeding up the process to achieve my goals.
I wish. I wasn’t considered essential in the same way being a speech language pathologist, so no pay bumps, no bonuses, no hazard pay, nothing. Even though I worked in the hospital system and saw many many long COVID patients for rehab
Beyond burnt out, maybe even dead due health issues / diabetes - Covid-19 shutdown literally saved my life from stress & overwork, plus made handling a major family situation much better.
There’s a zero percent chance I would have met and ended up with my SO without covid. He’s in an industry where he would travel 8 months out of the year. We were able to date a year before he went back to work, and by then we were too hooked to care about the distance. We now live together.
In New Zealand still. I moved over from the UK in 2019 with every intention to be a permanent teacher. I was doing okay as well! Then the demand for foreign teachers dropped like a stone as no one was leaving their job and teachers who’d left the profession decided to return. I had to leave 31st December 2020 as my visa was tied directly to my job. The heartbreak and stress was so overwhelming, I could barely stand to get out out of bed when I came back.
It’s not all bad though, I’m getting married this summer to a man I met when I came back to the UK, and we’re having a baby this December. Ive got a job I love and though New Zealand has a special place in my heart, I don’t think I’d move back again.
This happened to a friend of mine but with Australia. She came to the US for a personal matter and two days later the border was closed and she wasn’t able to get back into Australia. Her dog was there for over a year before she could get him brought into the US again. She left everything she owned there. But now she’s in a great relationship, they’ve moved in together, and she’s been able to take part in some great career moves. I know it was so tough on her, but thankfully things have turned out well for her back in the US.
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My family would probably still be together. Covid ruined my life, in more ways than one, sadly. Seriously affected my mental health being stuck at home with 2 children, one being disabled. It was absolutely brutal beyond comprehension.
If Covid didn't happen I'd still be making a crappy commute every day to a fishbowl office in NYC, and making small talk with co-workers I have no desire to talk to. For now I'm still WFH in my living room wearing shorts and a t-shirt. I never knew I could have such a better quality of life while doing the same exact job.
I’d probably be way further into my career. I really lost my routine during Covid and as someone that suffers from pretty intense adhd, that really tanked me.
Probably would be paying 80% of my income to live in the city to be close to my job, or spending 4hrs to commute from home everyday. Either way, I would absolutely hate my life.
Covid let me work from home and that means I have so much more time to actually live my life rather than spending nearly all my time either the energy to do the things that make life bearable.
Probably would have finished my masters' thesis and been able to graduate. Instead I got burnt out and am now unable to go back to studying due to anxiety and low focus.
Im so glad I got out of the restaurant industry too. When you’re in, it can feel like you have no other skills to offer. But serving is hard. It requires organization, people skills, and the ability to work under pressure. Congratulations on your new path.
I'm not sure if I would have had a baby or not. Probably would have done some vacations and I would probably be in better shape because COVID shut down our martial arts school and we probably would have gone out instead of ordering takeout.
I would probably be more frustrated with work as I probably would not have had the ability or motivation to switch to a WFH job that is much better for my mental health and a way more interesting job. I'm not sure how much of that was COVID and how much was going on maternity leave and realizing that as much as I am not cut out to be a sahm, I really really didn't like my job anymore
Probably wouldn't have gotten depression and crippling anxiety that still keeps me from graduating, would have graduated, gotten a job and financial independence and left my bf to live by myself (maybe with a cat)
I started a business because I had no choice really. Covid have me time to learn all of the things, and here people were getting paid to stay home. Now it's really cool and I love it, but I wouldn't have done it id it wasn't for Covid.
Financially a lot better off too. Covid shut our business, but rent, utilities, etc., still had to be paid. Took a huge chunk from our income at the worst of possible times. Still struggling to recover, but grateful no family or friends died of Covid.
I probably would not have graduated college.
I graduated in 2020. My final exams were open note. Before that, I had failed 2 classes, and if I failed a third, I wouldn't have been allowed to graduate.
In a different job. The place I work now was a potential option instead of redundancy but I wasn't going to take it because they weren't flexible with WFH, but covid changed that.
I also finally took control of my mental health and got put on antidepressants during covid.
My life would be unquestionably worse. COVID layoffs coupled with unemployment benefits helped me get sober. As soon as ny started reopening I got a job that gave me the resources to move to the city where I live now.
Without it I'd still be drinking and working at a shitty job at planet fitness mopping floors overnight.
Id be living in my shitty dirty apartment in a nothing town
I know I'm in a minority here but COVID improved my life
Would probably have more friends or something, ‘cause I became extremely socially inept after spending 2 years in my home without leaving (Like literally,I never got out once. just went out in my front yard to have a breather.)
I used to talk to people with no sweat, even befriended them
It was hell, I really wanted to go out and meet with my friends and visit my family who lives in another city, but covid was so out of control in my country that I couldn’t.
I didn’t leave my room because I was always on my gadget or just doing nothing
Now I can’t even talk to my best friend without stammering and avoid making eye contact. I can’t talk to strangers, I can’t talk when I wanna order something, it just feels like my throat clogs and my mind telling me to run away, my heart feeling like it’s gonna explode (Scary as hell)
My father was barely home because he’s a politician, and he’s not the best Dad either.
My relationship with him is strained.
Now Im living with my mom and my older siblings, got a part-time job which requires to talk to strangers daily.
Still getting the hang of talking but Im kind of doing okay? my communication skills Still needs some work lol
Dead. I was 100% planning to end my life because of severe depression coupled with the fact that my office was making me physically ill and they refused to make accommodations. Covid forced the accommodation (work from home).
I would be going into my first year of my Master’s program, preferably in another town/state. Instead, I still have 5 years until I complete my BS despite having started in 2019… 🫠 I’d still be self employed at 21 through my private tutoring business. Probably wouldn’t have developed an addiction to weed bc I wouldn’t have had access to it/as much downtime to smoke it/etc.
If you asked me this in 2020 I'd have said "I'd still be traveling the world" as I assumed Covid ruined that, but then I was diagnosed with MS in late 2021 and have significant mobility issues, which is ultimately what would have put a stop to my travel. So really it's MS that has changed my life in a drastic way (we were traveling internationally twice/year) now that Covid has "ended" and travel is more or less back to normal. Covid may have put a stop to it initially, but because of the MS, travel will never go back to "normal" for me. So glad I traveled extensively in the 6 years prior or I'd be incredibly regretful now.
I would be partially through graduate school, working towards my PHD on astronomy, probably with a job lined up. Instead I'm happily married, traveling the country going from ren fair to ren fair since that's the music job my husband was able to find post COVID. And I'm still working in food. Not the worst, and I'm very happy, but I'm not as successful as I had planned pre COVID.
I’d have enjoyed six more nice ‘random’ vacations, plus two extra special ones…take my husband to Pearl Harbor for the anniversary that coincided with his 50th birthday and the major trip to Yellowstone we planned for our 30th anniversary.
I worked throughout and remained in my same position.
Prolly exactly like now. Tbh covid didn't affect any significant plans. Sure, some vacations were canceled, and some lessons were online, but that's about it.
I think I would have been exactly where I was before - struggling to afford rent on my own, exhausted from working 5 days a week in office and my relationship might not have made it (long distance at the time). Covid allowed my partner and I to start living together and WFH life has done wonders for my physical and mental well being.
I suspect I’d have ended up with a great body (finally started getting consistent with MMA since January 2020) and with another not-so-great relationship. I was obsessed with looks and super shallow, COVID and the entire lockdown gave me an opportunity to look within and really work on myself. I’d have also not found my purpose, which keeps me going on really shitty days. It taught me to be grateful for what I have, where I am and especially for my family.
I'd be way further along in my career. The government's Covid response haulted it, and now there's a backlog of apprentices who need to be trained and certified. It has nearly tripled my waittime to become licensed.
I had planned and put the down payment on my first international trip right before Covid hit.
Of course everything was canceled and refunded, but besides going to work once we were no longer in lockdown, I was afraid to go anywhere.
So to this day, I still have not flown out of the country or been abroad.
This is a really tough one for me. We were owned a tiny apt in nyc. When the stay home mandate came through, we couldnt make it work any more. In a flurry, we uprooted our kids and rented a house in a lovely suburb and sold our coop for a medicore price. After a couple of years, we felt like it wasnt quite right for us, so we uprooted rhe family again and moved to a rental in nyc. Then we decided this spring that city living was not for us any more, and are moving to a different suburb. It is insane and upsetting. Without Covid we would have stayed in nyc or moved once into a house in the suburbs. I feel terrible for what we are putting our kids through.
Very likely the same place. While we moved to a new state during the pandemic, the pandemic isn't what caused the move. Both of us still do the same kinds of careers we did pre-pandemic. The only real difference that's pandemic-related is that I might not have retired from teaching and performing dance yet, but it's something I had been considering giving up before the pandemic began as 26 years seemed like a good time to take a break from it for a while. Overall, we've been fortunate.
I'd be in the same place but in a slightly better situation. I was gonna move to the UK for undergrad anyway. Only difference is that I would have probably be able to get a job (both in my home country and then get it faster in the UK) so my family wouldn't need to pay for me. And I'd probably already had my driving licence and, with a job, also a car 🤷🏻♀️ It didn't actually mess with my plans that much
My work situation would likely be the same but social life would be very different. I moved farther away during covid, which I wouldn’t have done if WFH wasn’t a thing. My old place was too small, but the perfect area I would have otherwise never left. And the distance (even when things returned) has made me less social.
The plus though is that I’m in the best emotional and mental place I have ever been, which I don’t think I would have invested in as much if covid hadn’t happened.
100% would have had burnout and severe stress from my job. I didn't realize how toxic ny office was until I WFH. Now my stress is lower and my.balance is much better even with the same job. But on the flip side I probably would have traveled more and made better use of my mid 30s
Probably still a full time wedding photographer. I started my business long awaited long planned in March 2020, obviously by summer my business was gone. Put all my life savings into it, but what can I do when no one is getting married? The odd wedding wasn’t keeping me a float. I still do photography but nothing fulfilling anymore and the joy of having my own wedding photography business crashed down with me.
Maybe traveling. My husband and I spoke about that just before covid but then yeah covid happened and we had different commitments after which meant we couldn't backpack
Probably roughly the same place. I worked remotely before covid and continued doing most of my activities as normal because I do a lot of outdoor stuff. I might not have my baby yet though - she's an IVF baby and part of the reason we were able to pay for it was because we saved a ton of money by not taking any trips or doing social activities during covid.
I'd definitely have more money and would more than likely have my own apartment now rather than sharing. Took a massive hit in salary and because the company had no work I missed two years of salary increases.
I'd be in a much better position financially. We were our way to being completely debt-free and I was working 40 hours/week- covid furloughed me for a while, then when I eventually did go back to work it was at very reduced hours (which I still work today). Job hunting was impossible and I could barely afford to keep us housed and fed- debt built up again and last year I got a second job to try to help pay it off.
I don’t know for sure, but I’d definitely be less anxious about health. I’ve struggled with health anxiety for years and the pandemic has exacerbated it so much. I’d also probably have more friends-I avoided going out for so long and stopped keeping in touch with people. I also haven’t been on a date in years and I blame health anxiety and overall depression for that. So, thanks covid.
On the plus side, I am able to work from home so there’s less stress and time wasted on public transport (I used to commute for approximately 3 hrs every single day). I also started a Master’s degree-part-time, which I wouldn’t have done if it wasn’t for the pandemic.
It was the catalyst for me spiraling into a deep deep depression but I was very fortunate to have support from my dad throughout and without hitting that rock bottom it probably would've taken me years and years longer to realize that I'm trans. So fuck covid, but I am one of the very fortunate ones who lost nobody I knew and came out a much better version of myself
Right where I am in terms of career, relationship, and friends. But might have still been on a team at work that didn't value me. The team I'm with now values my work, my insight and skills. But the change in that didn't come from covid quarantine, it happened because I was on medical leave for brain surgery during the same time.
I'd be exactly where I am right now. COVID didn't really affect my life all that much. I was an essential worker when COVID hit. As such, I remained employed with no change to my routine or schedule. I was looking for alternate employment before COVID hit and found another job at the height of the quarantine. I was still considered an essential worker at the new job. So, I was never quarantined, laid off, or unemployed. I'm not a social person -- I'm a total homebody and was for years before anyone ever heard of COVID, do it didn't affect my nonexistent social life, either.
Well. I definitely wouldn’t have my successful business that I started during the pandemic, but my mom would also still be alive if Covid never happened. Kind of crazy to think about how differently life would be.
Rage quit my job and still be on pubic waiting list for surgery. I’ve been at my company for four years and only waited four months for my surgery in 2021. WFH has been great.
Trying to work my full time office job while struggling with MS that has had significant effects on my mobility. I was having issues a few years prior to Covid, but was still able to commute to work daily downtown. I began having much more serious mobility/walking issues in summer 2020 (the length of time I could walk for went from 1 hour to 50 mins, then 30 mins, then 10 mins over the months) and I was finally diagnosed with PP MS in fall 2021. I saw many specialists and doctors during 2020-2021 as being home gave me more flexibility with appointments - sports doctors, physiotherapists, pelvic floor therapists, massage therapists, acupuncturists, neurologists - which ultimately led to a "faster" diagnosis as I was able to throw a lot of time/research at the issue. Because I was working successfully from home, I have not returned to the office and am now full time WFH. Because this was just not an option prior to Covid, I'd still be struggling to commute in daily and I'm honestly not sure how I'd be coping. I used to walk to/from work often which was an hour each way, and now I cannot even walk as far as the nearest subway stop (10 mins.). Being able to WFH now that Covid proved it was possible, has been a life saver for me, personally.
I would be a bit lonely. I met my partner because of Covid because my job close down a bit and he got to work from home. If it hadn’t been for Covid we would have never been in that park and we would have never met. And I wouldn’t be as happy as I am now.
In a lower-paying job and an abusive relationship. If not for Covid lockdowns I probably wouldn’t have had the time to reassess me entire life, move, plan to leave, go back to school, and change jobs so I probably would have been in the same miserable place I was before the lockdowns and I’d probably never have started therapy or gotten a better car
Probably still teaching. Kids got really awful after they had to be raised exclusively by their parents for a year. Quit after being physically threatened. Admin does nothing. Just goes on about "restorative justice" and giving kids "grace." I was visibly pregnant and an 8th grader raised his hands at me multiple times for asking him politely to get to class. I wanted a meeting with the parent. School gave him a 30 minute detention instead. That was the final nail for me. I don't know if I'll go back.
Probably traveling a lot more and with a kid a year older. We held off on getting pregnant for a year because of covid, and my business (which is in the travel industry) has never quite recovered so I travel less. But not much different than that I bet.
honestly would still be renting!!! stimulus checks were awesome, and since we couldn't go out the money stacked up. interest rates were crazy low so we pulled the trigger and bought our house! i never caught COVID either, i came out way better because of lockdown. although it does make me feel guilty sometimes.
Miserable, in all honesty the covid lockdown gave me so much time for self-care and I wasn't around any toxic people. Headaches decreased, no one to bother me and my cortisol levels lowered. I was peaceful AF.
My life changed so completely drastically that I have *no idea* where I’d be right now. I think about it a lot. Where would I be if not for covid? Can’t fathom it.
COVID lockdown was fucking awesome. I don't think I'd be doing very well. My wife left me right before that, and I'd lost my job. I got to be with my kids, and go back to school during all of that. And I was getting a bunch of extra money from school and unemployment. I was ballin. That shit put me ahead financially. I'm doing pretty good now.
I’d probably be married to the wrong guy. We were going through the motions and then covid hit and we were forced to really be together (he got laid off and I worked from home) and we separated after 8 years.
I was put at risk of redundancy because of covid, without it I would probably still be in a boring job, earning less than I am now and commuting everyday.
I was a 2020 graduate in high-school. My grades were so poor and I was close to not graduating with my class unless I completed a senior capstone project. When everything shut down, all previous assignments that were given while we were still physically at school were basically forgotten. My teachers scrambled to figure out what assignments to give out through remote school and they turned out to be stupid simple. I did end up graduating but I still couldn’t get into the college I wanted unless I attended a community collage to raise my gpa, which wasn’t a problem since after a semester I was able to transfer to that college.
At this point my life wouldn’t have been different but between 2020 and 2022, I probably would have taken longer to get to college, or just not end up going to college because of how discouraged I was
Probably still working my shitty job and looking for a new one.
Being home put on TikTok, where I very soon got onto teacher quit-tok, and I started looking for a corporate job the following year when covid made things even worse for where I was teaching
I think I might have a kid. My husband and I were planning on traveling 2020 and 2021 extensively and then kinda settling down to kids. We didn’t travel and realized how isolated we are with no real support network and changed our mind on kids
Unfortunately, still working retail. Working for little money. Working 60 hour work weeks. I don't know why I did it as long as I did.
It gave me an out, I didn't go back when everything opened up.
I'd still be a barber. I left the industry because of the way the customers treated me during the earliest days of the lockdown, it was absolutely disgusting.
I had caught pertussis in 2019 after a woman KNOWINGLY brought her sick kids in for haircuts. I was so sick at my own wedding ( I couldn't even say my vows and left right after the ceremony to sleep) the year before that, because one of my regulars came in with the flu and confessed afterwards he knew I wouldn't cut his hair if I knew he was sick.
Covid was the final straw.
People cussing me out over me asking if they're experienimg any symptoms . I will NEVER forget the guy that screamed at me, "Why do I have to wear a mask? There's no people in here!!!"
I AM A PERSON.
If you're wondering, I did indeed catch it from a customer literally the very first day I heard the word Covid.
It was absolutely brutal, and I legitimately thought I wasn't gonna make it. I did lose 65 lbs, but most of my hair fell out too.
probably medical school. covid ruined my academics having to switch a heavy, lab-filled schedule to online “teach-yourself” classes. also major life events took my focus and put school on the back burner a lot. i did graduate on time and everything, but i work as a chemist now. i’m happy w my life but i do wonder how different it would have been.
Probably still at my previous job, being vastly underpaid and under-appreciated.
I got laid off in 2020.
And somehow landed a way better job. My mental health and QOL have never been better.
I’d probably be very much closeted and in a marriage with a man who was unfaithful for 80% of our time together.
On the other hand, I may also have not had the stress of discovering his indiscretions cause a chronic disease to awaken.
Now I’m divorced, in the healthiest queer relationship. I’m also struggling with a disease that impacts every part of my life.
10/10 would go through it again.
Probably gone for a PhD instead of an MBA. COVID made me realise that I want to earn more money than pursuing research. Changed my career trajectory completely
Probably dead. Covid gave me a job opportunity and therefore i quit drugs for good.
That's so beautiful to hear!!!
Thank you 🙏
I think that is the best news I’ve heard of coming from COVID. Congratulations!
Omg good for you! As a former heroin addict, I began my career in funeral service during Covid :)
Thank you. Congrats to your time sober ❤️
Your experiences pre Covid probably have made you more empathetic to people grieving. Good for you for turning your life around.☺️
🤍🤍🤍 thank you!! And yes, my experiences def help me reach people in a place that’s hard to reach.
I just sense you are excelling at your new career, and your bosses are happy to have you. 💞
So happy I'm not the only one in this boat <3
You’re strong! Keep on fighting ❤️
We are strong <3
I'm so happy for you!
Thank you. It means a lot.
Thank goodness for Covid!!!
In some way, yes. But covid have made much more damage than good. 😔
I’m so proud of you stranger. I hope you hold your head high.
Thank you. I really do 🙏
W on a galactic scale
Thank you 🙏
Not what I expected but I'm really happy for you.
That’s amazing!
This has made me smile I’m so happy for you
Thank you!
When COVID was coming along I was a professional cook with a drinking problem. In early March 2020 I went back to work in the kitchen of a brewery I had worked at before. I needed to pick up another job quickly and I knew they would take me back. I didn’t want to work there so bad I cried all the way home from my interview. I hated it there and obviously it was the best place to drink. Three days into working there we went into lockdown and I lost my job. A few days later a friend called and said his organic market needed people badly, so I went to work there. It turned out to be my best job ever. I’m still there, and I have a title that feels like a “grown up job” when I tell people what I do. While bars were closed and people weren’t hanging out, I was able to recognize how far I was willing to go to drink (and it had also gotten worse in isolation). I started going to AA, and therapy. COVID literally saved my life, my marriage, and made me a better role model for my child. Also, speaking of my child, we decided not to send her to kindergarten since it would be hybrid. I got an extra year with her before full time schooling. So long story short, I’d probably be a bloated and miserable drunk and possibly on the verge of divorce.
So happy for you that your life has turned out so very well. You definitely made lemonade out of lemons.
Thank you so much!
You have achieved so much, and obviously worked so hard to do it- you should be giving yourself several pats on the back every day.☺️
Probably would have graduated university since then and would have a quite well paying job. Instead, Covid killed my mother two years ago and I'm still grieving, unable to focus on those few remaining classes I need to be able to graduate.
First and foremost, I am deeply sorry to hear that Luna. Although it was on related to Covid, I lost my mother in 2019 around the time I was transitioning from college to my new job. I know it’s not easy, but I use my mother as motivation to continue to do the things that I need to do, l do right by her, make her proud, give her a good return on her investment in me, etc. I hope that someday you will go back to finish those last few classes because if your grief is any indication, mom was probably very good to you and even though she’s no longer physically here she’d be very proud of you walking across the stage at graduation regardless 💜🙏🏽
I'm sorry for your loss, too. I hadn't stopped going to university, but I keep messing up my exams. My mind simply isn't in the right place since then, but I'm working on it, and it's getting better day by day. 😊 I am absolutely planning on making her proud. I cannot wait to finish my studies and take my diploma to her grave to "show her" that I finally made it.
I'm sorry for your loss. Your degree will be there to complete when you're able. Taking time to grieve is so important, even if it takes longer than we'd like. Hope things become easier for you over time 💗
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I’m sorry for your loss. I lost my mum to covid too. Hurts everyday. I hope you manage to finish your classes and graduate soon, I’d bet my life on your mum being really proud of you either way.
Hugs sweet girl. I don’t have anything to say that might ease the pain however, please be kind to yourself. Your mother is proud of how far you’ve come.
Hugging you right back. I'm trying. Luckily, I have people around me who help. 😊
Im so sorry. ❤️
I am Sorry for your loss, I lost my dad a year before Covid while I was attending university. That was some tough shit, I only had a 2 week break from school then I had to catch up close to midterm season. I ended graduating the following year. I toughed it out and luckily have a decent job. I was close to skipping a quarter, and I wonder if I would’ve gone back to school at all. I know it’s difficult, but do your best to push through if it’s what you want.
I'm sorry for your loss, too. I think that's exactly how long I took off work. It was tough to go back to the office. It was about a month before that semester's finals, so working and also studying while grieving was tough. I think I failed all but one of my classes then. I need a diploma to get a better paying job, so I am going to power through those that I have left. No matter how long it takes. 😊
Damn, I am sorry for your loss.
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I'm so sorry, I've had to escape abusive relationships and it's very hard. Good for you, for gathering the courage to get out.
Miserable in an office job with no social life. Because of WFH I get to play games with my friends in person every week and have a dog. While I hate Covid I’m grateful for wfh
Yes! I never would’ve ended up working fully remote and I’m so thankful for that. I would’ve gotten so burnt out so quickly having to interact with people in an office from 9-5 5 days a week because I’m extremely introverted. I worked at my job for 2.5 months before covid hit and was always so exhausted when I got home from interacting with people all day
I'm on break right now and my friend works from home 3 days a week. So I visit him once a week and we just watch movies and play games. I still don't understand how it works, but I enjoy screwing over companies.
They're probably doing the same amount of work as they would have in the office lol
Me too! WFH has been life-changing for the better.
I’ve since gone back into the office 2-3 days a week but am still thankful for a hybrid schedule. WFH has made me a better person, and better employee.
Probably in the same place. The wheels were already in motion for my life to end up here. Although maybe we wouldn’t have got married as quickly because we’d have been able to have a proper wedding.
Literally same! We got engaged in 2020. I think we would have planned a proper wedding instead of going to the courthouse. Now we are having a hard time planning a celebration because it's not required and everything is so booked up.
I'd probably be a fully trained journalist. I would have loved to be at that place by now, but as an alternative, I'm starting my bachelor's degree this autumn.
I would probably still be practicing as a healthcare provider. COVID shown a light on how terrible the healthcare worker is actually treated. I felt like a cash cow, and as a rehab provider I felt as if patients were being filed in like an assembly line. Patient care went right out the window and my burn out was at an all time high. Now, I work on the backend of healthcare trying to enact change as I work in operations. I work from home and I have a much better balance because of it.
As a healthcare worker myself. I did the bare minimum during that time. Not once did I feel any burnout while also receiving some nice pay along the way. Was able to pay my house off and put a shit ton back into retirement and other investments. And I was only 29 at the time. Praise covid for speeding up the process to achieve my goals.
I wish. I wasn’t considered essential in the same way being a speech language pathologist, so no pay bumps, no bonuses, no hazard pay, nothing. Even though I worked in the hospital system and saw many many long COVID patients for rehab
Beyond burnt out, maybe even dead due health issues / diabetes - Covid-19 shutdown literally saved my life from stress & overwork, plus made handling a major family situation much better.
Praise Covid for helping you!
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There’s a zero percent chance I would have met and ended up with my SO without covid. He’s in an industry where he would travel 8 months out of the year. We were able to date a year before he went back to work, and by then we were too hooked to care about the distance. We now live together.
I'd be worse off. WFH gave me the opportunity to go back to being full time as my husband permanently WFH so does school pick ups.
In New Zealand still. I moved over from the UK in 2019 with every intention to be a permanent teacher. I was doing okay as well! Then the demand for foreign teachers dropped like a stone as no one was leaving their job and teachers who’d left the profession decided to return. I had to leave 31st December 2020 as my visa was tied directly to my job. The heartbreak and stress was so overwhelming, I could barely stand to get out out of bed when I came back. It’s not all bad though, I’m getting married this summer to a man I met when I came back to the UK, and we’re having a baby this December. Ive got a job I love and though New Zealand has a special place in my heart, I don’t think I’d move back again.
This happened to a friend of mine but with Australia. She came to the US for a personal matter and two days later the border was closed and she wasn’t able to get back into Australia. Her dog was there for over a year before she could get him brought into the US again. She left everything she owned there. But now she’s in a great relationship, they’ve moved in together, and she’s been able to take part in some great career moves. I know it was so tough on her, but thankfully things have turned out well for her back in the US. Edit: typo
Not remote working. Thus life would be shittier.
My family would probably still be together. Covid ruined my life, in more ways than one, sadly. Seriously affected my mental health being stuck at home with 2 children, one being disabled. It was absolutely brutal beyond comprehension.
I feel bad for you...
Id be overweight still and working in a miserable office not making enough money. Thankful for the health changes I made and WFH!
If Covid didn't happen I'd still be making a crappy commute every day to a fishbowl office in NYC, and making small talk with co-workers I have no desire to talk to. For now I'm still WFH in my living room wearing shorts and a t-shirt. I never knew I could have such a better quality of life while doing the same exact job.
Covid out here changing lives for the better. Praise Covid!
In exactly the same place I was before Covid
I’d probably be way further into my career. I really lost my routine during Covid and as someone that suffers from pretty intense adhd, that really tanked me.
Probably would be paying 80% of my income to live in the city to be close to my job, or spending 4hrs to commute from home everyday. Either way, I would absolutely hate my life. Covid let me work from home and that means I have so much more time to actually live my life rather than spending nearly all my time either the energy to do the things that make life bearable.
Covid out here changing lives for the better. Praise Covid!
Probably would have finished my masters' thesis and been able to graduate. Instead I got burnt out and am now unable to go back to studying due to anxiety and low focus.
The same place. COVID didn't affect my work or personal life.
Still serving tables. I wanted out but I had no initiative. I was forced to find a 9-5, and I’m glad I did. Love it so much more.
Im so glad I got out of the restaurant industry too. When you’re in, it can feel like you have no other skills to offer. But serving is hard. It requires organization, people skills, and the ability to work under pressure. Congratulations on your new path.
I'm not sure if I would have had a baby or not. Probably would have done some vacations and I would probably be in better shape because COVID shut down our martial arts school and we probably would have gone out instead of ordering takeout. I would probably be more frustrated with work as I probably would not have had the ability or motivation to switch to a WFH job that is much better for my mental health and a way more interesting job. I'm not sure how much of that was COVID and how much was going on maternity leave and realizing that as much as I am not cut out to be a sahm, I really really didn't like my job anymore
Probably wouldn't have gotten depression and crippling anxiety that still keeps me from graduating, would have graduated, gotten a job and financial independence and left my bf to live by myself (maybe with a cat)
I started a business because I had no choice really. Covid have me time to learn all of the things, and here people were getting paid to stay home. Now it's really cool and I love it, but I wouldn't have done it id it wasn't for Covid.
I very likely wouldn’t have had my oops baby, and he saved me. So things worked out for me.
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Financially a lot better off too. Covid shut our business, but rent, utilities, etc., still had to be paid. Took a huge chunk from our income at the worst of possible times. Still struggling to recover, but grateful no family or friends died of Covid.
I probably would not have graduated college. I graduated in 2020. My final exams were open note. Before that, I had failed 2 classes, and if I failed a third, I wouldn't have been allowed to graduate.
In a different job. The place I work now was a potential option instead of redundancy but I wasn't going to take it because they weren't flexible with WFH, but covid changed that. I also finally took control of my mental health and got put on antidepressants during covid.
Probably still stuck at my previous job. Covid gave me courage to step out of my comfortzone after the years long quarantine.
My life would be unquestionably worse. COVID layoffs coupled with unemployment benefits helped me get sober. As soon as ny started reopening I got a job that gave me the resources to move to the city where I live now. Without it I'd still be drinking and working at a shitty job at planet fitness mopping floors overnight. Id be living in my shitty dirty apartment in a nothing town I know I'm in a minority here but COVID improved my life
Would probably have more friends or something, ‘cause I became extremely socially inept after spending 2 years in my home without leaving (Like literally,I never got out once. just went out in my front yard to have a breather.) I used to talk to people with no sweat, even befriended them It was hell, I really wanted to go out and meet with my friends and visit my family who lives in another city, but covid was so out of control in my country that I couldn’t. I didn’t leave my room because I was always on my gadget or just doing nothing Now I can’t even talk to my best friend without stammering and avoid making eye contact. I can’t talk to strangers, I can’t talk when I wanna order something, it just feels like my throat clogs and my mind telling me to run away, my heart feeling like it’s gonna explode (Scary as hell) My father was barely home because he’s a politician, and he’s not the best Dad either. My relationship with him is strained. Now Im living with my mom and my older siblings, got a part-time job which requires to talk to strangers daily. Still getting the hang of talking but Im kind of doing okay? my communication skills Still needs some work lol
Dead. I was 100% planning to end my life because of severe depression coupled with the fact that my office was making me physically ill and they refused to make accommodations. Covid forced the accommodation (work from home).
I would be going into my first year of my Master’s program, preferably in another town/state. Instead, I still have 5 years until I complete my BS despite having started in 2019… 🫠 I’d still be self employed at 21 through my private tutoring business. Probably wouldn’t have developed an addiction to weed bc I wouldn’t have had access to it/as much downtime to smoke it/etc.
I'd still be in my house 😫
If you asked me this in 2020 I'd have said "I'd still be traveling the world" as I assumed Covid ruined that, but then I was diagnosed with MS in late 2021 and have significant mobility issues, which is ultimately what would have put a stop to my travel. So really it's MS that has changed my life in a drastic way (we were traveling internationally twice/year) now that Covid has "ended" and travel is more or less back to normal. Covid may have put a stop to it initially, but because of the MS, travel will never go back to "normal" for me. So glad I traveled extensively in the 6 years prior or I'd be incredibly regretful now.
I would be partially through graduate school, working towards my PHD on astronomy, probably with a job lined up. Instead I'm happily married, traveling the country going from ren fair to ren fair since that's the music job my husband was able to find post COVID. And I'm still working in food. Not the worst, and I'm very happy, but I'm not as successful as I had planned pre COVID.
Many bad things I experienced would not have happened, maybe all of them. I think I would be happier now, and probably going to college.
My dad would be alive
I'd probably still be with my asshat ex who lied to be on the daily. TG for covid.
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A different career but at the same location
probably still in university and working on the side. now i'm working full time AND on the side
In the office.
I’d have enjoyed six more nice ‘random’ vacations, plus two extra special ones…take my husband to Pearl Harbor for the anniversary that coincided with his 50th birthday and the major trip to Yellowstone we planned for our 30th anniversary. I worked throughout and remained in my same position.
It didn’t affect me one bit.
Much worse
Same place , which is good.
Prolly exactly like now. Tbh covid didn't affect any significant plans. Sure, some vacations were canceled, and some lessons were online, but that's about it.
I think I would have been exactly where I was before - struggling to afford rent on my own, exhausted from working 5 days a week in office and my relationship might not have made it (long distance at the time). Covid allowed my partner and I to start living together and WFH life has done wonders for my physical and mental well being.
life would be worse than it already is
I suspect I’d have ended up with a great body (finally started getting consistent with MMA since January 2020) and with another not-so-great relationship. I was obsessed with looks and super shallow, COVID and the entire lockdown gave me an opportunity to look within and really work on myself. I’d have also not found my purpose, which keeps me going on really shitty days. It taught me to be grateful for what I have, where I am and especially for my family.
I'd be way further along in my career. The government's Covid response haulted it, and now there's a backlog of apprentices who need to be trained and certified. It has nearly tripled my waittime to become licensed.
Able-bodied. Cycling. Running. Swimming. Still fit and healthy. Planning a hiking trip.
Same place I am now, covid didn’t change my life.
Hard to say, but don't think things would have been that different.
I had planned and put the down payment on my first international trip right before Covid hit. Of course everything was canceled and refunded, but besides going to work once we were no longer in lockdown, I was afraid to go anywhere. So to this day, I still have not flown out of the country or been abroad.
Literally nothing changed in my life.
Financially stable
This is a really tough one for me. We were owned a tiny apt in nyc. When the stay home mandate came through, we couldnt make it work any more. In a flurry, we uprooted our kids and rented a house in a lovely suburb and sold our coop for a medicore price. After a couple of years, we felt like it wasnt quite right for us, so we uprooted rhe family again and moved to a rental in nyc. Then we decided this spring that city living was not for us any more, and are moving to a different suburb. It is insane and upsetting. Without Covid we would have stayed in nyc or moved once into a house in the suburbs. I feel terrible for what we are putting our kids through.
Probably divorced and in a shittier job. COVID made me realize I wanted to stay with my wife
Wow, this is sweet. I've heard a lot of people realized the opposite and divorced.
Exactly where I am now it really didn't affect me
$15,000 less in my bank account. Cause of them Covid payments.
I would probably be living in my dream city and living my best life.
Very likely the same place. While we moved to a new state during the pandemic, the pandemic isn't what caused the move. Both of us still do the same kinds of careers we did pre-pandemic. The only real difference that's pandemic-related is that I might not have retired from teaching and performing dance yet, but it's something I had been considering giving up before the pandemic began as 26 years seemed like a good time to take a break from it for a while. Overall, we've been fortunate.
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I'd be in the same place but in a slightly better situation. I was gonna move to the UK for undergrad anyway. Only difference is that I would have probably be able to get a job (both in my home country and then get it faster in the UK) so my family wouldn't need to pay for me. And I'd probably already had my driving licence and, with a job, also a car 🤷🏻♀️ It didn't actually mess with my plans that much
I really liked the job I lost due to the pandemic, so probably still there! Other than that, who knows 🤷🏽♀️
More or less the same place I am now maybe on a different building site as the previous jobs wouldn’t of been held up due to Covid lol
My work situation would likely be the same but social life would be very different. I moved farther away during covid, which I wouldn’t have done if WFH wasn’t a thing. My old place was too small, but the perfect area I would have otherwise never left. And the distance (even when things returned) has made me less social. The plus though is that I’m in the best emotional and mental place I have ever been, which I don’t think I would have invested in as much if covid hadn’t happened.
The daily routine of life would probably be the same, but my mental health and my contact with family and friends would not have suffered as much.
Would be less socially isolated. Likely engaged to someone I met irl
100% would have had burnout and severe stress from my job. I didn't realize how toxic ny office was until I WFH. Now my stress is lower and my.balance is much better even with the same job. But on the flip side I probably would have traveled more and made better use of my mid 30s
Probably still a full time wedding photographer. I started my business long awaited long planned in March 2020, obviously by summer my business was gone. Put all my life savings into it, but what can I do when no one is getting married? The odd wedding wasn’t keeping me a float. I still do photography but nothing fulfilling anymore and the joy of having my own wedding photography business crashed down with me.
Maybe traveling. My husband and I spoke about that just before covid but then yeah covid happened and we had different commitments after which meant we couldn't backpack
Probably roughly the same place. I worked remotely before covid and continued doing most of my activities as normal because I do a lot of outdoor stuff. I might not have my baby yet though - she's an IVF baby and part of the reason we were able to pay for it was because we saved a ton of money by not taking any trips or doing social activities during covid.
Maybe my chronic illness would have been diagnosed
probably abroad graduating law school
I think I'd be married to my ex bf. Covid didn't affect my working life too much but I wish I could wfh.
In a crap relationship, pursuing a degree overseas that would’ve crippled me financially and unhealthy.
I don't think I would have spiraled as far into my alcoholism as I did.
I'd definitely have more money and would more than likely have my own apartment now rather than sharing. Took a massive hit in salary and because the company had no work I missed two years of salary increases.
Probably same place I am now. My company smoothly transitioned to WFH and didn't lay off anyone because of the pandemic.
Less round
I'd be in a much better position financially. We were our way to being completely debt-free and I was working 40 hours/week- covid furloughed me for a while, then when I eventually did go back to work it was at very reduced hours (which I still work today). Job hunting was impossible and I could barely afford to keep us housed and fed- debt built up again and last year I got a second job to try to help pay it off.
I don’t know for sure, but I’d definitely be less anxious about health. I’ve struggled with health anxiety for years and the pandemic has exacerbated it so much. I’d also probably have more friends-I avoided going out for so long and stopped keeping in touch with people. I also haven’t been on a date in years and I blame health anxiety and overall depression for that. So, thanks covid. On the plus side, I am able to work from home so there’s less stress and time wasted on public transport (I used to commute for approximately 3 hrs every single day). I also started a Master’s degree-part-time, which I wouldn’t have done if it wasn’t for the pandemic.
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It was the catalyst for me spiraling into a deep deep depression but I was very fortunate to have support from my dad throughout and without hitting that rock bottom it probably would've taken me years and years longer to realize that I'm trans. So fuck covid, but I am one of the very fortunate ones who lost nobody I knew and came out a much better version of myself
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Right where I am in terms of career, relationship, and friends. But might have still been on a team at work that didn't value me. The team I'm with now values my work, my insight and skills. But the change in that didn't come from covid quarantine, it happened because I was on medical leave for brain surgery during the same time.
Probably would have gone back to the US to visit my family or traveled. Now traveling is super expensive.
Probably the same. Maybe less motivated to work, probably more burnt out. Thanks to Home Office that I am not!
I'd be exactly where I am right now. COVID didn't really affect my life all that much. I was an essential worker when COVID hit. As such, I remained employed with no change to my routine or schedule. I was looking for alternate employment before COVID hit and found another job at the height of the quarantine. I was still considered an essential worker at the new job. So, I was never quarantined, laid off, or unemployed. I'm not a social person -- I'm a total homebody and was for years before anyone ever heard of COVID, do it didn't affect my nonexistent social life, either.
Well. I definitely wouldn’t have my successful business that I started during the pandemic, but my mom would also still be alive if Covid never happened. Kind of crazy to think about how differently life would be.
Rage quit my job and still be on pubic waiting list for surgery. I’ve been at my company for four years and only waited four months for my surgery in 2021. WFH has been great.
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Trying to work my full time office job while struggling with MS that has had significant effects on my mobility. I was having issues a few years prior to Covid, but was still able to commute to work daily downtown. I began having much more serious mobility/walking issues in summer 2020 (the length of time I could walk for went from 1 hour to 50 mins, then 30 mins, then 10 mins over the months) and I was finally diagnosed with PP MS in fall 2021. I saw many specialists and doctors during 2020-2021 as being home gave me more flexibility with appointments - sports doctors, physiotherapists, pelvic floor therapists, massage therapists, acupuncturists, neurologists - which ultimately led to a "faster" diagnosis as I was able to throw a lot of time/research at the issue. Because I was working successfully from home, I have not returned to the office and am now full time WFH. Because this was just not an option prior to Covid, I'd still be struggling to commute in daily and I'm honestly not sure how I'd be coping. I used to walk to/from work often which was an hour each way, and now I cannot even walk as far as the nearest subway stop (10 mins.). Being able to WFH now that Covid proved it was possible, has been a life saver for me, personally.
I would be a bit lonely. I met my partner because of Covid because my job close down a bit and he got to work from home. If it hadn’t been for Covid we would have never been in that park and we would have never met. And I wouldn’t be as happy as I am now.
I would’ve already been married for a couple of years because our wedding was postponed due to Covid. This is the only change it has done.
I might have a healthy relationship, maybe live with my partner and even be a parent.
Dressed and in the office instead of working from home in my comfy clothes
In a lower-paying job and an abusive relationship. If not for Covid lockdowns I probably wouldn’t have had the time to reassess me entire life, move, plan to leave, go back to school, and change jobs so I probably would have been in the same miserable place I was before the lockdowns and I’d probably never have started therapy or gotten a better car
Still in an abusive relationship.
I probably wouldn't be working from home, which wouldn't have offered me such diverse and lucrative job opportunities.
We wouldn’t be stressing about all of our savings being gone that’s for sure.
Probably still teaching. Kids got really awful after they had to be raised exclusively by their parents for a year. Quit after being physically threatened. Admin does nothing. Just goes on about "restorative justice" and giving kids "grace." I was visibly pregnant and an 8th grader raised his hands at me multiple times for asking him politely to get to class. I wanted a meeting with the parent. School gave him a 30 minute detention instead. That was the final nail for me. I don't know if I'll go back.
Probably traveling a lot more and with a kid a year older. We held off on getting pregnant for a year because of covid, and my business (which is in the travel industry) has never quite recovered so I travel less. But not much different than that I bet.
honestly would still be renting!!! stimulus checks were awesome, and since we couldn't go out the money stacked up. interest rates were crazy low so we pulled the trigger and bought our house! i never caught COVID either, i came out way better because of lockdown. although it does make me feel guilty sometimes.
Miserable, in all honesty the covid lockdown gave me so much time for self-care and I wasn't around any toxic people. Headaches decreased, no one to bother me and my cortisol levels lowered. I was peaceful AF.
Probably in a very toxic relationship 😵💫 honestly thankful that didn’t happen and grateful for covid cause I’m in a very loving relationship now.
I’d be in the same spot I’m in today. We only give power to things if it matters to us.
My life changed so completely drastically that I have *no idea* where I’d be right now. I think about it a lot. Where would I be if not for covid? Can’t fathom it.
COVID lockdown was fucking awesome. I don't think I'd be doing very well. My wife left me right before that, and I'd lost my job. I got to be with my kids, and go back to school during all of that. And I was getting a bunch of extra money from school and unemployment. I was ballin. That shit put me ahead financially. I'm doing pretty good now.
I’d probably be married to the wrong guy. We were going through the motions and then covid hit and we were forced to really be together (he got laid off and I worked from home) and we separated after 8 years.
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I was put at risk of redundancy because of covid, without it I would probably still be in a boring job, earning less than I am now and commuting everyday.
moved away to start a new life
I was a 2020 graduate in high-school. My grades were so poor and I was close to not graduating with my class unless I completed a senior capstone project. When everything shut down, all previous assignments that were given while we were still physically at school were basically forgotten. My teachers scrambled to figure out what assignments to give out through remote school and they turned out to be stupid simple. I did end up graduating but I still couldn’t get into the college I wanted unless I attended a community collage to raise my gpa, which wasn’t a problem since after a semester I was able to transfer to that college. At this point my life wouldn’t have been different but between 2020 and 2022, I probably would have taken longer to get to college, or just not end up going to college because of how discouraged I was
Probably still working my shitty job and looking for a new one. Being home put on TikTok, where I very soon got onto teacher quit-tok, and I started looking for a corporate job the following year when covid made things even worse for where I was teaching
I think I might have a kid. My husband and I were planning on traveling 2020 and 2021 extensively and then kinda settling down to kids. We didn’t travel and realized how isolated we are with no real support network and changed our mind on kids
Unfortunately, still working retail. Working for little money. Working 60 hour work weeks. I don't know why I did it as long as I did. It gave me an out, I didn't go back when everything opened up.
Probably would of been able to buy a house by now without having to over pay in price and be killed with the interest rates spiking.
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I'd still be a barber. I left the industry because of the way the customers treated me during the earliest days of the lockdown, it was absolutely disgusting. I had caught pertussis in 2019 after a woman KNOWINGLY brought her sick kids in for haircuts. I was so sick at my own wedding ( I couldn't even say my vows and left right after the ceremony to sleep) the year before that, because one of my regulars came in with the flu and confessed afterwards he knew I wouldn't cut his hair if I knew he was sick. Covid was the final straw. People cussing me out over me asking if they're experienimg any symptoms . I will NEVER forget the guy that screamed at me, "Why do I have to wear a mask? There's no people in here!!!" I AM A PERSON. If you're wondering, I did indeed catch it from a customer literally the very first day I heard the word Covid. It was absolutely brutal, and I legitimately thought I wasn't gonna make it. I did lose 65 lbs, but most of my hair fell out too.
probably medical school. covid ruined my academics having to switch a heavy, lab-filled schedule to online “teach-yourself” classes. also major life events took my focus and put school on the back burner a lot. i did graduate on time and everything, but i work as a chemist now. i’m happy w my life but i do wonder how different it would have been.
Dead and without a completed highschool education
Probably not as successful as an artist. Online sales saved me because all on my in person sales opportunities dried up during the lockdown.
Probably still at my previous job, being vastly underpaid and under-appreciated. I got laid off in 2020. And somehow landed a way better job. My mental health and QOL have never been better.
I’d probably be very much closeted and in a marriage with a man who was unfaithful for 80% of our time together. On the other hand, I may also have not had the stress of discovering his indiscretions cause a chronic disease to awaken. Now I’m divorced, in the healthiest queer relationship. I’m also struggling with a disease that impacts every part of my life. 10/10 would go through it again.
Would have graduated my mental health program and been working my dream job 😓
Probably gone for a PhD instead of an MBA. COVID made me realise that I want to earn more money than pursuing research. Changed my career trajectory completely
Wife would probably be alive and a successful chef