My dh is an IT contracter. His contract was due to be extended at the end of this month. This had already been agreed but now with everything going on they have asked him to take a "holiday" until they know what is going happen. We knew there is always a risk that he will be asked to leave so we have some reserves. We can carry on as normal for 3 months or we can cut everything right back and "survive" for about 8 months. But longer than that and we're screwed. My children's lives are about to change massively. I have started to cull all unnecessary expenses: milkman, cleaner, kids activities etc as we have literally no idea how this will pan out. It's not like there will be other work out there available , he already tried a couple of places and all of them had withdrawn the jobs they advertised.
I work part-time but have requested to go full-time although the additional salary will only add one days equivalent of his wage to our monthly income. I also work somewhere where there is no certainty that we'll be allowed to continue. We can't remote work so if we get asked to leave I'm not sure how/if my wages will get covered. The dc will be off now for the foreseeable and dh will be working from home and then taking care of them after March in a reversal of our normal roles.
I can't compute all of this. Our worst case scenario is that we lose our house and at the end of the day that isnt that bad. I know we'll survive. We have friends and family who won't see us go homeless. I just hate the uncertainty and the complete inability to control our own circumstances. Anyone else facing this?