There is consistently a silver lining in every situation.
My silver lining came when I still got to practice my profession even when the world was burning, and it so happened that when the pandemic broke, I had just graduated from the university of cooling technology.
I became a certified cooling specialist. My fellow graduates and I were not able to get jobs because most companies had shut down, others closed up. It was a frustrating and dampening period in my life, even though I got through it. I decided to change environments and head south to our home. I was welcomed by hot, heavy, stale air, then the cooling component at the home had since shut down. The caretaker had an emergency, so he had not reported to the home to have the issue fixed, and since I got to the home in the late morning, I had enough time to have the issue fixed. I looked up various cooling corporations and settled on one heating and A/C corporation that was running a sale to draw buyers while we were in the pandemic. I ordered an electric heat pump to help with indoor comfort at the house. The local repair provider was genuinely efficient as the cooling plan was delivered within a few minutes! By noon, I had the unit at the house, and I was trying to convince myself that I remembered all the steps involved in heating and A/C replacement, but with the help of one of my friends who is an heating and A/C company, I was able to fit the new unit but it took me quite a while, then for the temperature control unit, I fitted a WIFI control unit. The home now had a quality A/C repair and I had done most of it on my own. I was a qualified cooling company.