Thank you for your support and for taking the time to write a lengthy comment. It seems my original comment looks like I'm complaining about my situation - that

Thank you for your support and for taking the time to write a lengthy comment. It seems my original comment looks like I'm complaining about my situation - that wasn't my intent. I wasn't trying to win sympathy or start a controversial thread to get fake gold or virtual likes; it isn't Reddit, Twitter, or Instagram. I just wanted to point out that the market dried up and even industries such as ours (where software engineers are usually in demand) suffering greatly from the economic downturn. > Open-source contributions, side projects, whatever you can do to further demonstrate your value to prospective future employers That's what I was talking about. Why can't we all as a community figure out some platform where we can help those developers who [temporarily] lost their jobs? We all use lots of open-source tools without paying a dime. Wouldn't it be great to have a platform where they can still contribute to open-source projects during a transitional period? Platforms like Patreon and Github Sponsors are aimed to help authors, but not contributors. That was the whole point of my comment. I wasn't asking for an advice and certainly wasn't ready for people telling me how incredibly lucky I am.