I DOOOOO love throwing in the trusty "a week later" time skip, because I'll tell you right now, when it's done right it saves you from a bunch of filler chapters. I like to have at least one in every story after...let's say 5 or 6 chapters, because then you have a good amount of pivotal events set up. In reality, some things just take a certain amount of time to unfold, but when you're writing, I just think it's pointless to spend 4 more chapters writing all of it out when you can time-skip and have your characters fill your audience in on what happened.
Like let's say you have a character that needs to do a list of things in order to get a job...I don't know, but my point is, it's gonna be REALLLLL taxing to sit there and write that all out in real time.
This is obviously just my opinion that you didn't ask for, but if anyone's ever scrambling to write aftermaths of pivotal events...don't be ashamed of a time skip hahahaha, plan it right and it works right out
