Ashley Ross was overseeing content and search engine optimization for a health company when she and nearly half of her colleagues were laid off due to the COVID-19 shutdown on March 24. Battling sadness and navigating through the unemployment website made things tough, but Ross is finding her way back with daily gratitude meditation and some freelance work.
“Knowing I wasn’t alone in the frustrations of the backlog helped, but also made it worse because it’s so awful knowing how many people are affected by this,” Ross told The Epoch Times in an email.