The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess

Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by jacquesm on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:27AM (#13938603)

Excellent. Make sure you keep a sharp eye on that and the future developments, this is one of those little things that can really ruin your life. It's bad enough to have a serious health issue, if it gets compounded by a financial crisis then you can go from 'ok' to 'really bad' in a surprisingly short time when there is no safety net.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by cmdrfred on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:18AM (#13939450)

We keep one years expenses at all times as well as our mortgage payment is a little less than the cost of a two bedroom apartment so if a finical crisis hit that left us out on the street we would be there regardless.

The problem with the housing crisis was people had variable rate mortgages that made their payments quickly balloon up under them. We have a fixed rate so that can't happen.

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by anamoulous on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:39AM (#13938892)

What gives you the right to be so imperious about this?

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Re:The Gig Economy Celebrates Working To Excess by jacquesm on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:42AM (#13938905)

I think you are mis-understanding what I wrote. Having seen a couple of lives of states-side friends ruined by what would have been minor (but still serious from a medical perspective) issues in Europe I'm all too aware of the differences in the various health-care solutions.

I've also lived in enough places with various levels of health-care and insurance (and lack of insurance) to see this as a potential problem.

So, instead of reading imperiousness, how about worry?

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