Never letting bad things go to waste and always arguing for your programs on the backs of hard cases are joined at the hips.
Never letting bad things go to waste and always arguing for your programs on the backs of hard cases are joined at the hips.
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Lucky the guy had some form of insurance.
Let’s do the math. At some point in the last year, 80 million were unemployed. That meant loss of insurance or incredibly expensive COBRA insurance (mine was $5600 a month from BCBS. I declined).
Most new positions were at much lower pay rates and usually much worse insurance (I was offered personal insurance for $1000 a month for the part-time teaching gig I had, that’s 1/3 of my monthly gross, totally unaffordable, lucky the ObamaCare tax penalties are no longer in place - that’s pretty standard for most software engineering contractor positions - $200 to $250 a week for medical insurance (KForce, Collabra, Mondo, etc) - as I’m mid-50s, with pre-existing conditions.
I foresee an avalanche of medical and rent-induced bankruptcies in September when the last stimulus bill and protections expire.