Planning for Your Future During the Stressful COVID-19 Pandemic

Jacob Greene
Published Aug 23, 2024

Planning for Your Future During the Stressful COVID-19 Pandemic


Unemployment, school closings, health concerns, and the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic leaves you without access to basic goods and services. Domestic violence and murder suicides increased in response to stay at home orders. While you're in turmoil trying to start your unemployment claim and wondering what to do with your kids, you could be planning for your future and your children's future. Communicating well with significant people in your life and agreeing with others is in your best interest.

Your Financial Future


Household debt reached a record high of $13.95 trillion during the first quarter of 2020 compared to $12.68 trillion during the 2008 recession in the United States. Senior executives at the World Economic Forum expect that 7.1 million jobs will be lost through automation, and 2.1 million technology and multi-media jobs will be created during 2020. Mathematicians, engineers, analysts, and architects will flourish in the growing fields of biochemistry, nanotechnology, and robotics. Sales representatives familiar with multiple industries, technology, and the nuances of 3-D 5-G will also be in demand.

Your Children's Education


Children who are denied access to their free public education can use their free time to increase their standardized test scores. Promotion to the next grade in school is based on your child's mastery of three core subjects: mathematics, English, and social studies. Your child can learn and practice exercises in SAT ACT preparation workbooks to understand and master all types of reading comprehension, math problems, and social studies questions to earn a full college scholarship based on their standardized test scores. A good half-inch thick mathematics test preparation book contains all the types of mathematics problems your child will every find on a college entrance examination. With good reading comprehension and grammar test-prep books, your child can find every main idea, make analogies, order ideas, and increase their vocabulary.

Your Family's Health


The COVID-19 pandemic brought new health concerns, worries, and anxiety with doctors only available through telecommunications services. You may have to improvise to offer your family the same healthy nutritious meals with foods available on the nearly empty supermarket shelves. You still need to exercise, play actively with your children and pets, ride the exercise bike, and do aerobic dance. New York City emergency medical personnel attended 1081 cardiac arrest deaths from March 20, 2020, to April 5, 2020 and are ordered not to transport cardiac arrest patients that they can't revive to the hospital.

Amicable Relationships with Others


No one expects you to be able to totally change your life and your children's lives without a single argument or with immediate clarity, but a good relationship with each parent is best for you and your children. Communicating well with your family reduces stress, and stay at home time is a great time to think about what is working and what is not. Good people do make mistakes, especially in the emotional turmoil of the COVID-19 pandemic. An indiscretion, such as causing a traffic accident or hitting a child, stresses your entire family. You need to change the pattern of insults, lies, threats, and physical force before it leads to abuse.

Recognize Domestic Violence


The United States domestic violence hotline offers counseling and online resources to help domestic violence victims. Domestic violence is not sex, race, religion, or ethnic group related, and it's a difficult problem to solve. If your children are suddenly in foster care due to an arrest for driving while intoxicated, you may have to go to court to regain custody of your children. The ensuing custody battle can offer an opportunity for a biological or stepfather to petition the court for custody of your children. You can file a temporary restraining order and petition family court for custody and child support without a lawyer, deemed an unnecessary service during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Unemployment and Your New Job


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