It's great to be asked if you have extended health insurance before a medication or treatment is prescribed but also like devastating to be like "yes I have been un/der-employed for months and am trying to find work after leaving academia, no I don't have extended health"
I'm already on medication that I'm taking a lower dose of mostly so that I don't have to spend 100$ a week on it (it also seems that the lower dose is fine for now) but TROLOLOL what is life
"And hopefully next time we check in you will have full-time employment with benefits!" well actually that optimism about the job market is charming, I'm just considering going back to school so that I can have student extended health benefits, but okay
I mean if I go back to school then I can also re-train to do something else/get more skills but also I can get that sweet sweet Pacific Blue Cross or Greenshield life again
I'm currently doing some freelance work and am upgrading my skills so that I can do more research scientist work in health outcomes, but that's just taking time (including the time that is getting work experience at the moment)
Anyway, it's all good. I just had a moment of feeling very....something about academia, because honestly, a (theoretically) forever-job with benefits is a big fucking deal.
Healthcare access tied to employment is ableist garbage, that's the Tweet!
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