Seems having pets is a major hassle when you are planning extensive or frequent travels. What do you do with them? Pet sitters? Kennels? Have a family member house sit? Bring them with you even internationally?
I think the easiest thing to do is have a pet free life or give up the months long travel dreams for shorter trips but curious what you all do with your pets. 🤷
Every year I think about quitting my low stress remote job with great health insurance and the ACA plans and premiums offered in comparison to what I have now make me physically ill.
This is a skinny network HMO plan for a family of 3 with a $1800 subsidy which would take some extreme income gymnastics to get AGI of $60k. Otherwise we would be paying $34k a year for this garbage.
Premium
$1,079.78/month
Including a $1,799 tax credit was $2,878.78
Deductible
$6,000
Family total
(health & drug combined)
Out-of-pocket maximum
$14,800
Family total
You pay
Primary care
$40 per visit from day 1
Specialist care
$80 per visit from day 1
Urgent care
$60 per visit from day 1
Emergency room
40% coinsurance after deductible
Outpatient mental health
$40 per visit from day 1
Generic drugs
$20
Sounds like this is going to be a huge growth industry. Every company is going to need AI consultants and engineers to automate their patchwork of back office systems to be replaced by AI agents and similar to replacing legacy financial software EPM's to something like SAP it will take many years and the complexity will create lots of jobs.
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-hire-hundreds-engineers-help-customers-adopt-ai
There used to be a program called SCEP (student career experience program). Pathways replaced it. I'm trying to confirm my retirement eligibility dates. Does this SCEP time count for retirement SCD even if you worked part time?
I have been successfully working for 8 years with a 100% telework RA because of my permanent medical disability. I can work but my physical disabilities require work from home. It is simply not an option for me to work in an office because of my disabilities. The issue is the agency is looking at a reorg that could involve me moving to a new position and having to apply for a new RA. I'm hopeful I would get approved again and continue working from home but if they move me to a job that requires in office work that can't be accommodated I'm screwed.
What are my options here?