I own a hair salon. Typically, November is my busiest season. It has been SO quiet. A lot of my colleagues are also saying the same thing and have had to close up shop because of it - or get a second job.

People keep saying it will get better and the economy will bounce back but I don’t know. I am so close from just throwing in the towel, closing up shop and getting a corporate gig.

    • Elmo_Chipshop@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      Well there was this thing that happened that paused a lot of the payments in the first place since a lot of people lost their entire incomes

      • Itchy_Passion_8165@alien.topB
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        10 months ago

        If you lost your job, you weren’t contributing to discretionary spending anyway because you were scrapping to stay alive. Thus, if your loans restarting is decreasing your monthly funko budget, you were just making bad choices and avoiding the inevitable reality