re: How do you get paid if you sell a ST book?

[TheAlmanac]

As a Canadian, I have to admit that I hadn't even considered the notion that health insurance coverage would factor into the question of whether to write full-time or not...

 

[Amy Sisson]

^I consider health insurance the biggest factor of all in that decision. After all, if one runs short of money, one can try temp work, or a short-term job. But you can't get health insurance that way since most jobs have 30-120 waiting periods on health insurance for new employees (and they often disallow pre-existing conditions), so sticking with a long-term job with benefits (or having a spouse or domestic partner who has them) is critical.

It's really unfortunate.

 

[Christopher]

You can get health insurance that isn't provided by an employer; it just costs more. But as I said, you can write it off as a business expense.

 

[David Mack]

As a Canadian, I have to admit that I hadn't even considered the notion that health insurance coverage would factor into the question of whether to write full-time or not...

Color me "envious in the extreme."

^I consider health insurance the biggest factor of all in that decision. [...snip...] sticking with a long-term job with benefits (or having a spouse or domestic partner who has them) is critical.

Absolutely. That's pretty much how I found myself in my current situation. I also have the added bonus of being the sole earner and provider of insurance while my wife attends graduate school full-time.

There are days that Canada looks really good to me, but my wife hates the cold, and her family would disown us if we became Canucks. Oh, well.

 

[Rosalind]

As a Canadian, I have to admit that I hadn't even considered the notion that health insurance coverage would factor into the question of whether to write full-time or not...

Color me "envious in the extreme."

There are days that Canada looks really good to me, but my wife hates the cold, and her family would disown us if we became Canucks. Oh, well.

you can always move to Australia.

 

[Amy Sisson]

Absolutely. That's pretty much how I found myself in my current situation. I also have the added bonus of being the sole earner and provider of insurance while my wife attends graduate school full-time.

And I have the added bonus of a husband who works for NASA, but not as a civil servant, not even as a contractor, but rather as some sort of mysterious ghost.... They give him a cubicle, and he gets to find his own grant funding. Benefits? Not so much. (To be fair, his grant organization does offer a minimal level of benefits, but if there's ever an interruption in the grant money -- which happens all the time -- away the benefits go. So we stick with my benefits, which are more stable and more lucrative.)

Oh well, it could be worse. When I switched jobs last September, I did snag a 4-day workweek. :thumbsup:

 

[JoeZhang]

As a brit, I've never really considered the effect health insurance has on people's career choices. It's...interesting.

 

[Lonemagpie]

As a brit, I've never really considered the effect health insurance has on people's career choices. It's...interesting.

Similarly, as a Brit, I don't have to.

But I have a private health insurance plan anyway.

 

[Scott Pearson]

Absolutely. That's pretty much how I found myself in my current situation. I also have the added bonus of being the sole earner and provider of insurance while my wife attends graduate school full-time.

And I have the added bonus of a husband who works for NASA, but not as a civil servant, not even as a contractor, but rather as some sort of mysterious ghost....

Well, NASA has to have plausible deniability if the true nature of Paul's black ops work is exposed to the public. If it came out that not only do we know that aliens exist, but that NASA has had its employees them for years, right there in the cubicle, well, things could get dicey.