When Tejal Rives was laid off from Amazon in October 2025, she and her husband had a plan. They had bought a career-coaching and résumé-writing business, Do My Resume LLC, in 2024. Rives used some smart time management hacks to turn it into a side hustle alongside her job at Amazon, hoping she could one day quit and make it a full-time venture. After witnessing other layoffs at Amazon, the couple agreed that if her product marketing role were to be eliminated, she'd become the primary parent to