Information Discussion for Gate Guards
Thought I'd start a new topic for Gate Guards to use for comments. Like the moderator suggested-keep technical stuff, recipes, mechanical, etc. where they belong. Lets hear from everyone sucking down ...
Forum Discussion
firedoc wrote:
Max,
Must not need medical insurance (but your young). Be thankful and don't look over your shoulder.:E
True! I naively had neglected that, and I should have factored that in since I did have it at my previous 'real job' ;) I think if it were an issue further near the forefront of my attention, I'd either get private insurance (although I hear that's pretty much a joke, or rather a false-security), or when the time came to consider spending some of the money in our savings I'd just say that we need to keep about half of it for possible emergencies. I know in the grand scheme of the medical machine that keeping $10-15k around may not offer much security for anything but the most trivial surgeries or normal doctor visits and medicine - but it's more a philosophical point to me. At some point, even if I was facing eminent death, I'd rather make my money in relative peace and spend that money to enjoy what time I have left rather than to endure the time I have left with one operation after another and no promise that I may wake up from the next one.
And this job allows just that - it's making connections with people, spending lots of time with a spouse that you presumably love (or else you'd probably drive each other nuts after about a month of this job!), and it's making a good amount of quick money that can be spent to continue travel or whatever else you may be after in life. With the number of jobs that offer medical insurance dwindling, non-existant as far as I know in the workamper world(?) - as well as the perpetually narrowing benefits of employer-provided insurance - my argument still remains that this job does pay quite well, even though some people get put off by equating it to be $5-something an hour. Try to find another job that for at least half of the year you can come and go at will, and at the end of 2 months, 3 months, 6 months of sitting around doing whatever you want 98% of the time and not working hard the other 2% - you can walk away with as much money as this job provides.
