How’re we all doing?<\/p>\n
The year is halfway gone. I have gotten my paycheck, which gives me YTD totals…<\/p>\n
That gets my calculator finger itching. If present trends continue, I will have worked 560 hours of overtime in 2004. 32 of those hours will be counted as double time, because they were in excess of 12 hours in one day.<\/p>\n
Working hard. Getting paid.<\/p>\n
That’s what the 30s are about, aren’t they?<\/p>\n
“Prime of your life”<\/p>\n
Maybe. So, subtracting the 2 weeks and 2.5 days I was out on vacation and illness, I have worked 9.88 hours every day I was at work.<\/p>\n
That’s sort of interesting to know.<\/p>\n
Also, for the 6 months of this year, my company has paid out 1590 bucks in health & life insurance and stuff for this single, prime-of-her-life healthy person. That’s going be 3180 for the year. Holy smokes.<\/p>\n
Naturally, though, that’s not my <\/em>money. It’s benefits<\/em>. I could get a better deal on my health insurance if I paid Kaiser directly, but the company won’t give me back the money if I said I would bargain shop.<\/p>\n Of course, the minute anything went wrong with me, Kaiser would no longer offer the $125 a month deal they’d give me now. If I suddenly got diabetes or some wierd disease, forget me! “That will be $900 a month please, and you understand we won’t cover the treatments for the illness you’ve disclosed to us.”<\/p>\n I once was denied Kaiser coverage, on a personal plan, because I told them I had back problems when I was 18 and worked at a bagger for Safeway. Groceries are heavy if you don’t carry them right.<\/p>\n Lesson learned: These sorts of things roll around in my head as I consider other ways to spend the hours of my life’s prime. I can think of some alternatives to the current routine of 9.88 work hours plus commute time. But I have to say, insurance considerations put a big damper on my entrepenuerial and creative plans.<\/p>\n Anyway, just some thoughts on the half-year mark. Happy summer everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How’re we all doing? The year is halfway gone. I have gotten my paycheck, which gives me YTD totals… That gets my calculator finger itching. If present trends continue, I will have worked 560 hours of overtime in 2004. 32 … Continue reading
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