Originally Posted by Superbelt

Thought I'd dredge this up since I am again looking for a new job.

So here's the deal. I need to do a 240 hour internship for grad school. I also want to leave my current job. It's not taking me anywhere and the pay is wholly insufficient. I won't be able to do this internship plus maintain a required minimum of 40 hours a week there anyway (hours would conflict and I need to do my internship now)
My internship that I will most likely get needs me at least 30 hours, so I am going to have to go look for another job that I can work 30 hours a week that offers me access to a health care plan.
The alternative is to pay about 900 bucks a month for health insurance for my wife and myself.... or try and make it without health insurance.

The gap I am likely to see can range anywhere from 2 months, which will mean insurance kicks in at my new job right away (if my internship offers me an immediate position) or 5 months if a full time job from my internship requires me to wait 3 months first (like many jobs do).

So I am looking at 60-70 hours of work a week plus graduate classes in my life for a period of 2 to 5 months.
This will be really fun, but should be unnecessary fun if we had Universal Care.

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