I recently got laid off for my job, I worked in finance. Luckily, I was very prudent and saved a lot of money, so I have a huge savings, I got major severance, and I got EI for the next year. However, I know that money will run out eventually, and I am already freaking out about it. I have a kid, a two-year-old and they need food and water and to pay rent.I was thinking of enrolling in clinical trials. For $5000 all you have to do is get injected with something that has already been tested on apes. You’re the first humans they test these new chemicals on or these new vaccines but you’re paid handsomely for it. I think I’ll try and find some jobs first, but I’ve heard from people that it takes years and years to find jobs these days, so I’m not too optimistic.
>>34205947If you need the money then why not?
>>34205947You saved a lot of money, got major severance and will have unemployment insurance money for one year on top of all that.What is the purpose of all that when you are already freaking out despite all that.I understand you have a child to worry about. And money will run out eventually if you don't get new income. But what exactly is "eventually"? How many years or months are we speaking? If it's a year or more then just calm the fuck down first, even if it takes you half a year to accomplish only that.You have been prudent to save a lot of money. So you should be even more prudent now to make the best of what you have. The most important thing you probably have, it seems to me, to an extent that not many can afford, is time, from having money."Time is money" some people say. And what they think usually while saying that is that they could make so and so much money in that time, not even asking whether they need it or not.I think it's more reasonable to think the other way around: Don't maximize the money you make but the time you have (which of course money can help you with, to some extent). Not needing much money is superior to making much money. So I think it is more prudent in your situation, while you can afford it, to maximize your potential there: being content with using less money for whatever you usually spent much for, and producing those useful things you got from that by yourself, by just using your time instead. That is the also a highly monetizable skill, especially in the times to come where AI has already eaten everyone's soul. No one seems to have much time anymore that they can spend beneficially, because they have for a long time already outsourced their intelligence to whatever or whoever gives them money instead of using it for themselves.You worked in finance. A job that does not create any real value for anyone. Now you have time to do something useful instead.But your title question is impossible to answer in such generality.
>>34206143Not OP but finance and A.I are the only jobs that add any real value to the economy. Data proves this
>>34205947Terrible idea
>>34205947https://www.kentspharmacy.co.uk/the-most-infamous-stories-of-clinical-trials-going-wrong/
>>34205947Lmao that kirk
>>34208667But it’s better than family starving
>>34206170Whos data anon? Data produced by economists? You're telling me data produced by economists show that their industry is the only one that adds real value to the economy?
