|
pedanterast
|
 |
« on: October 25, 2011, 07:48:20 PM » |
|
I just read this:
"I'm too young to die, too old to work, and too broke to do anything else."
The character who said this was a hit man, but perhaps the analogy still holds.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
inexile
New member
Posts: 19
|
|
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2011, 05:09:05 PM » |
|
Why haven't I left? Fear and inertia.
I don't loathe my life, on the whole, even if it rarely makes me happy and is in some ways making me ill. I'm old enough that I need health insurance, and retirement funds would be nice as well, although I will probably never be able to retire. My current job provides both, although I'm not counting on getting the state-funded retirement, since I'm sure it will be insolvent before I can use it.
Also, I've made the jump before, and wound up worse off than I was before I left. So I usually manage to convince myself that I have no options other than what I have, and that it could be a lot worse, and it'd be so much trouble to find another job/create my own opportunity, so I stay.
I don't think this is going to work any more; I heard that "click" in my head that means I'm going. But I'm going to keep an escape clause open, by not quitting my job: I'll be taking a leave of absence, and hopefully can COBRA my health insurance, and decide once I've made the jump if it's worth it.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
farm_boy
losers are underrated
Distinguished Senior Member
Posts: 1,455
recalcitrant and trollish
|
|
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2011, 07:58:29 AM » |
|
I can relate to both posts. In fact, I thought maybe I was the one who pedanterast quoted.
I'm interested in what happens to a 50-something guy (who has had one major medical expense recently) after COBRA quits (1 year?). Does "Obamacare" mean that we can't be turned down for a private policy?
Keep us posted, inexile.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Screw you... You're not a troll. You're just posting pathetic jerkish, troll-wannabe, crap. (mystictechgal, Member-Moderator)
|
|
|
inexile
New member
Posts: 19
|
|
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2011, 09:28:52 AM » |
|
Well, when I leap, I hope to land in Massachusetts, where thanks to Romneycare I should be able to find insurance. How affordable it will be, I don't know, but hopefully I'll be able to swing it. As a woman in my late 40's, I'll lose the "will we have to pay for pregnancy" price bump, which will hopefully counteract the "needs cholesterol meds" price bump. Hopefully I also won't need the antidepressants and (potentially) high blood pressure meds anymore, since neither is a problem when I'm not here or teaching.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
pedanterast
|
|
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2011, 09:05:40 PM » |
|
I can relate to both posts. In fact, I thought maybe I was the one who pedanterast quoted.
I'm interested in what happens to a 50-something guy (who has had one major medical expense recently) after COBRA quits (1 year?). Does "Obamacare" mean that we can't be turned down for a private policy?
Keep us posted, inexile.
18 months for COBRA. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
mclower
New member
Posts: 29
|
|
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2011, 05:01:23 PM » |
|
My income now is much better than it would be if I were doing what I would like. Nevertheless, I am taking steps to get the heck out of dodge:
I am meeting with a good friend and head of the academic department within which the line of work I want falls. Because my level of education is much higher than required for the field, she will be able to help me earn the degree or certificate I need with much less coursework than if I were just starting out.
I am working hard to pay down some debt and get in a much better place, financially, so I can afford to take a cut in pay.
I am talking with people in the field who supervise the kinds of positions I want, asking them how I can best present myself for openings down the road when I am ready to jump.
Life is too dang short to continuing doing a job which I loathe on bad days and tolerate on others.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
