To ask you the most suffering industries right now?

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Hi,
Trying to think of the industries and companies that are taking the most hit right now, so we can ensure to support afterwards. Trying to give dd an idea of how much this actually affects.

Family businesses

• theme parks
• Trains

What else would be really struggling right now and losing money?

It can be anything from holiday resorts, to parks, amusement parks, public transport, family businesses

DD has been put on 60% hours. This isn't enough to pay her mortgage and basic bills. She's in the fancy dress industry and orders have dropped like a stone when normally at this time of year the festival season is gearing up. Plus a lot of her materials come from China.

I’m a massage therapist. My sister is a hairdresser. We’re both up shit creek because of this, to be quit frank. Every single one of my appointments has cancelled this week.

Charities. I think that a lot of them won't be able to ride out the storm as they operate on a shoe string already.

My partner is a sound engineer. Tours and individual gigs cancelled (was going on a major tour) No studio work. Self employed . Have no idea what we are going to do. Tens of thousands lost already as loss of earnings. I'm part time in a non essential retailer

oil
mining
retail
leisure
advertising
transport
banking
insurance
property
construction and engineering
car manufacturing and retail

Be easier to say the industries not suffering to be honest.

I would imagine everything is suffering apart from the supermarkets and amazon right now!

Music teachers and other freelance musicians

My sons trumpet teacher (that we had to cut due to finances earlier in the year) is freelance. He does some work with the city symphony orchestra and teaches. He had about 45 kids on his teaching roster and is moving to online lessons. Last week he had 9 kids signed up. The max he can charge is $24.50 per lesson. I contemplated signing up DS again, but he doesn’t really want to.

His wife had a baby about 6mths ago.

Here in Korea, it's restaurants and hagwons (after school places for maths, English and everything else you can imagine.)

Delivery places and online shopping have gone through the roof though.

Charities are really going to suffer, especially small, local ones.

Taxi drivers without a doubt. I keep bleating on about this but my poor dad (black cab driver) is working 18 hour days in London at the minute and barely breaking even.
Nearly 60 and has 2 conditions which put him in the 'at risk' group - can't stop working though because that'll mean no money.

Fucking shit.

Photographers, artists, anyone who consults or provides services to small businesses. I am all three, though don't shoot weddings. All three have been decimated pretty much overnight.

The shops
Costs about the same as the bus if you walk there and taxi back

Sexworkers. But they don't matter to most people so it won't be noticed.

Well just near home, my son works for a city centre hotel that Currently has 2 guests, my daughter and her husband work in fashion design, and have just been laid off

Aviation, the job losses haven't really kicked in yet, and it's also going to be one of the slowest sectors to recover when we eventually start to come out of this.

My sons best friend is a well known D.J/ Musician, although his music sells..he has several platinum, his main income is playing live, he is literally somewhere in the world playing to mass audiences all the time. Plus he has a regular summer season in Ibiza and is in L.A. and Vegas regularly too, obviously this next few months are cancelled, he will lose loads and what's a shame on top of it all, he loves being with all the friends when hes home, but wont even be able to do that.

Hoping taxi drivers can find work delivering prescriptions and all the take-out that cafe/restaurants/pubs will hopefully be able to temporarily convert their ficus too.

The entertainment industry, what most people don't get is most of them are self employed.

Its a really bad time for them, everything is being cancelled, the big people like your Tom Hanks will be fine, but the cameraperson who shoots his films, is going to be struggling, along with the grips, lighting, sound, I could go on but so many rely on this industry and now cannot work and there is so little help for them

Car sales. A massive part of my DH salary is commission based which he only gets once a car is handed over and no one wants to come in to buy them or collect the cars they have bought.

Hospitality.
Hair and beauty.
TV and a film production.
Theatres.

Lots of freelancers and casual staff in all of those who will be virtually unemployed overnight.

@ChillinInMyBacta you'd think so. But, in London anyway, there's is 0 work.
And it would take more than a few which prescription/food delivery runs to keep a people like my dad afloat.
He needs to find £350 per week just to keep his taxi on the road before anything else; food, bills, rent...

DMum said she doesn't get why supermarkets aren't approaching taxi drivers to do home grocery deliveries considering in some places there is no available slots for 6 weeks.

Childminders. My whole income disappeared last night when Boris closed us. We’re self employed so entitled to nothing!

Aerospace

Creative sector - loads of freelance ad there will be redundancies across the board