“My leap of faith became a leap of death.” 29-year-old Daniel Tan was a Singapore Airlines cabin crew for 7 years before the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global aviation travel. As planes were grounded, he decided to make a pivot to digital and social media marketing. Daniel thought all was good when he got a job with Airbnb - but his dreams were quickly dashed when Brian Chesky, CEO and co-founder of the company, announced a layoff of nearly 1,900 employees. Daniel was retrenched one month into the job and he did not even complete his training. But as Singapore’s ‘circuit breaker’ created a new wave of home bakers, Daniel saw an opportunity and set up his own cake business - the BBC - selling basque burnt cheesecake and fudgy blackout brownies. As a retrenched worker, he also got help from the government’s COVID-19 Support Grant. His father, who is a Grab driver, also qualified for the Self-employed person Income Relief Scheme (SIRS) that gave him a total of $9,000 in payouts. (For more jobs and training opportunities, visit go.gov.sg/jobsgohere-cnai ) For more, SUBSCRIBE to CNA INSIDER! https://cna.asia/insideryoutubesub Follow CNA INSIDER on: Instagram: https://ift.tt/2C3sZiR Facebook: https://ift.tt/2PPEuNA Website: https://cna.asia/cnainsider
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