I’ve worked my way into one of those indespencible jobs. our product can’t be maintained if I’m not on staff. seemed to be an ideal position to be in. unfortunately, the venture capital firm that bought our company decided to eliminate our product a week before Christmas. about 1000 jobs destroyed, including mine. my last day will be in June.
took me awhile to wrestle with this reality. the job market is horrible in my field (overall economic uncertainty and AI). I could call in a few favours and do some consulting gigs in the near term. I’m very privileged, I won’t have access to Medicare or social security for many years, but I’m feeling over being soul-destroyed by corporate overseers.
I had a conversation that lead to a conversation that put me in touch with a particular family in my town. for various reasons they were looking for a new personal chef. I told them I’m not a chef, I’m just a guy that lives to eat and cook. fast forward: I cooked for them last night. they loved it.
if I can afford to do this job, and it will pay for my healthcare premiums, why would I not? it’s an interesting equation. defer money for joy.
I was at a “cross roads” about 8 years ago. I made extensive spreadsheets, checking and re-checking past expenditures, potential expenses, etc. In the end, I went with joy over money.
All in all, everything went according to plan – until it didn’t. For me, it seems health insurance is my nemesis. Please don’t underestimate outside factors affecting your monthly premium, deductibles, co-pays, charges above usual and customary and all the other gobbledygook that will drain your wallet/bank account.
I will have to make some tough decisions at the end of the year regarding health care, health insurance and my income. At this point, I’m still running numbers and collecting data so I can try to make the “correct” decision.
Thank you… Yes, I’ve been able to “make ends meet”.
I think I have an answer for my health insurance dilemma, but I need to check with one of my doctors. I may try to pay him (directly out of pocket) or see if he’ll be creating his own plan. I had one dentist that did that, but I didn’t like her plan, so I changed dentists.
Please feel free to PM me and I’ll be happy to share my research (health, prescription & dental), so far. Again, this project is still a “work in progress”.
CCE
(Keyrock the unfrozen caveman lawyer; your world frightens & confuses me)
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Very sad to hear. This is not even in the same ballpark as your experience… But from a legal standpoint, I followed a product from invention (wrote the patents, did the patent “freedom to operate” work), to naming (did the high-level TM clearances), to production (wrote the materials supply and manufacturing contracts), to licensing the product to an F100 corporation (wrote the patent license and supply agreements), watched it grow from about $10 million in revenues to about 70 million in year 3. It was a pretty big part of my workload for quite a while.
Year 4, an F50 company merged with (bought, actually) that first company. They looked at all their combined product lines, and decided anything not making at least 100 million would be canned or sold off.
No one else wanted “my baby” so it died an ignominious death.
But like I said, nothing like what happened to you, not on a personal level.
So sorry to hear that, @anaxgorous. There’s an overload of greed out there these days, and many of us have felt the consequences. I admire your perspective.
While I don’t have a magic answer about dealing with the bear that is health insurance, I know a little from the our household having had to obtain coverage after an employer plan, and then COBRA eligibility, ended. Feel free to DM if sharing might be helpful.
April 1st! This morning I cast an eye on Facebook to see several local food businesses posting various silly pranks. Could be a fun day to check out your own FB feed for potential amusement.
Me? I’m gonna pass on that ranch latte and chicken cordon blue (blue sauce).
Donated blood this morning, I was going to skip it as I took Sunshine to 3 medical appointments, yesterday. But I remember a post from @medgirl about how much blood is needed.
So I stopped being lazy, got up and went to the local blood drive. Probably won’t do too much until its time to make dinner. Sunshine can have a PB and J for lunch.
