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Re:What happens when your career becomes your whole identity by kerng on Saturday December 28, 2019 @06:45PM (#21902668)
What I struggle with is the issue of health insurance. What are really the options of safety when chasing your post-tech dreams? That risk and uncertainty is what keeps me from moving on with just taking a few years to try something else.

Just the other day I met an artist, 50 years old, he currently plans take multiple years of to travel the world and make and display art - just like that.

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Re:What happens when your career becomes your whole identity by war1025 on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:01PM (#21902757)
If you have very little income, health insurance actually becomes affordable. The trouble comes when you make enough not to qualify for subsidies but work for an employer that isn't large enough to negotiate good rates.
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