Rachel Rosenthal, Columnist

The Coronavirus Isn't the End of Your Career

If anything, it’s time to prove your value.

My boss is always looking over my shoulder.

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For the hotel chef who can’t afford his nine prescriptionsBloomberg Terminal, losing a job could be a matter of life and death. Even among the employed, fear of what’s around the corner is almost as paralyzing.

It’s enough to put the minor inconveniences of working from home – the unrealistic homeschooling curricula, the crick in your lower back, the maddeningly slow WiFi – into perspective. Just treading water seems like a victory, forget about actually doing your job well.