The hit jobAs people face job loss, pay cuts, crashing businesses, fear, and uncertainty around their work, they are increasingly looking at diversifying income opportunities. As founder-director at Vernssage Gallery, she had been in business six years, when the pandemic forced her to turn “from curator to supplier”. “It meant my work wouldn’t change, but I just needed to go in thrice a week.” Then the pandemic began, and she saw her orders going up by 50%. When the pandemic broke, it was 50%, and now that I am doing it full time, it’s 80%,” she says. Urvija Ghurye’s online dance classes fall in the latter category.

Source: The Hindu December 26, 2020 10:40 UTC