I sacrificed my time to learn all about exchanges, depositing, and withdrawing from fiat to any of the currencies, as well as trading professionally on exchange platforms. After getting a hang of it and generating some funds from both blockchain and trading, I realized that indeed the lockdown helped out a lot.

I think it's excellent that you invested your time in this way. Especially as it is so hard to find work programming. I know that the main problem with programming work is that all the jobs go to experienced programmers. But you can't get experience until you get a job!

So well done for finding an alternative with Hive. I wish you every success.