It can be really easy to get down on yourself and assume that life is never going to get better.
If you’re basing your future expectations on how things have gone in the past, it’s quite likely that you’ll feel pessimistic about everything.
At least, that’s the case in my life. Things have never been very easy and I often assume that that’s an indication of the future. However, it helps to recognize that there are always new opportunities coming your way if you’re open to them. This has been the case in my own personal experience as a recently fired heating and cooling technician. When the pandemic began, the air quality control shop had a steep decline in business. People didn’t want to invite strange heating and cooling workers into their home which would increase the chances of transmitting the virus to their families. They wanted to increase their air purification measures, but obviously they were afraid of the HVAC technicians transferring germs from one residential HVAC repair to the next. Unfortunately, this meant that half of the heating and cooling technicians on staff were laid off. I honestly started panicking right away, thinking that I would never find another air quality control job that could pay my bills. Well, you never know when opportunity will knock. Shortly after losing my job, I was contacted by a local trade school who wanted to hire more remote professors for their HVAC certification program. They said I could teach the professional HVAC repair courses from the safety of my own home and transmit all of my expertise to up-and-coming air quality control specialists. Best of all, I make twice as much as I did at my old job.