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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems I'm in the minority here, but given your circumstances, I'd quit. Especially if you think you can easily get a job again when you are ready. [/quote]

I would ONLY quit if you are very sure you can easily get a job again after a break in employment.  Otherwise, there's just too much economic uncertainty.  The economy likely isn't going to recover, and certainly not fully recover, until the pandemic is under control in some way (effective treatments, vaccine, a robust test/trace/isolate system) and I would not want to be relying on a single breadwinner.  If you are certain you could easily find a new job, and you can afford to forgo your income for some indefinite period of time, then quitting might make sense to solve the logistic problem.  Certainly my life would be easier if I were only handling childcare/distance learning/household tasks and not also trying to work full time.  But financially, it would be more precarious.  If my income were a small fraction of our household income, and not half of it, and if I weren't the one whose job provided our family's health insurance, the calculus would be different, and I might consider quitting, too.  [/quote]

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