Jobs without Benefits better than UE? (interviewed, degree, paycheck, companies)
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Yes -- and I know a guy who had a DVT many years ago who they tried to put on coumadin, he told them keep their rat poison, he didn't want it and instead he takes an aspirin daily and if he nicks himself shaving and bleeds too long or thinks he's bruising too easily he cuts back to a half for a few days. A true do-it-yourselfer -- even in the monitoring of his anticoagulant levels. I would not recommend this to anyone although it's probably what I would do myself if I had a DVT. He said he can eat all the salad he wants doing it his way.
If you get the generic brand coumadin it's only $10 a month.
But why would someone want to do something like that when they can focus on jobs that offer medical insurance?
Because holding out = no increase in income, no opportunity, life is basically on hold, and we have millions of 99rs. How'd holding out work out for them?
Unless they have just recently changed the unemployment compensation rules here in Florida, you can collect a lot longer than 24 weeks. I know two people who got it for 2 years, and that just was very recently.......like 6 months ago.
I'm thinking she is on UE and 4 weeks in so the clock is ticking to the point where she will have no income if she doesn't find a position at all. She has no insurance now. It is difficult to find a position that offers insurance and a lot of the employment is becoming temporary now. So, if she takes this job, she'll at least have some cash to pay toward her medical needs versus chancing running out of UE and ending up with neither insurance or income.
Unless they have just recently changed the unemployment compensation rules here in Florida, you can collect a lot longer than 24 weeks. I know two people who got it for 2 years, and that just was very recently.......like 6 months ago.
Don
I can get benefits past 24 weeks; there's two more tiers to exhaust following the 24 week mark. However, it's in my best interests to get re-employed ASAP. Gaps on the resume are not beneficial. Three years ago, when I was laid off, I was back to work within 6 months. As far as the health insurance issue, like I mentioned previously, the norm has certainly changed in regards to benefits being offered, even with a 40+ hour work week. With the increase in income (this position pays more right off the bat than my previous job), I can get my own health insurance due to better income. Hoping for interview appointment tomorrow & see how it goes.
Would education help? If you are on unemployment, you may qualify for department approved training and training extension benefits. I decided to do that and went to the cheapest community college I could find because the unemployment amount from a previous job was about equal to what the other jobs in the area were paying. (Yeah, they sucked)
While I was there I became friends with the head of the finance department. You can have a Bachelor's and still take community college courses in department approved training, so it turned out I wasn't the only student in that situation. He disclosed to me, laughingly, that his best two students were both just there to collect training extension benefits. He found a great deal of irony in that. We came for the pay, not the learning, but we studied harder than our classmates. I took the projects seriously, and decided to enroll in a Master's program after that experience. Of course, my training extension benefits ran out long ago, but it was the lift I needed to really get after my education.
So if you are considering additional training to enhance your skills or become more marketable, this may be the best opportunity.
Because holding out = no increase in income, no opportunity, life is basically on hold, and we have millions of 99rs. How'd holding out work out for them?
I'm a 99r and thoroughly enjoying my Master's program, thank you
Well, technically the state didn't qualify for 99, but I did go 70 or so before running out of ways to extend.
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