Some Woman's Journal: I am so deliriously giddy!

I had a job interview on Tuesday.

And I didn't get the job! :^) *Happy dance of joy*

It sounded like a miserable job. Performing the same test on hundreds of samples each day. Essentially a fourth of the responsibility that I have at my current job. But for $8/hr more than I make now, I would be nearly obligated to accept it.

But now I don't have to make that choice! Because they have "elected to go with another candidate" but were "very impressed" with me. That's HR speak for Some Woman gets to continue liking her job! :^)

That, and I found out that I qualify as low-income, and, as such, can apply for health insurance through the state, which has better coverage in some regards than the insurance that I used to have. Back in the day.

:^)

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Re:I oughta look into that state health coverage

[Some Woman]

Yeah- it turns out that our tax dollars do some pretty nifty things.

They have something for everybody. The program I'm applying for (MN Care) is for low income adults without children and the premiums are based on income. You should really look around to see what Colorado offers.

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[TechnoLust]

Wow, that's one of the oddest posts I've seen in a while.

congratulations!

[dubiousdave]

I'm happy(?) for you.

I did the math once...

[Zarf]

and because of the tax structure there's this interesting ... er ... fluctuation(?) in income as your pay increases. If you're low income and this job would have knocked you out of low income it may have also knocked you up a tax bracket. And unless it knocked your pay up high enough you could actually bring home smaller paychecks even though you had a much higher salary.

I was quite ticked when I got a sizable pay raise and I actually took home less money! So, it sounds like the lower paying job may be w

So did I

[Spamalamadingdong]

I was quite ticked when I got a sizable pay raise and I actually took home less money! So, it sounds like the lower paying job may be worth it because you'll indirectly get better benefits.

See incentive, perverse.

(It's sad when people pay a penalty to take a job that's supposedly more valued.)

Congratulations on your failure! :^)

[eugene ts wong]

Now, if you could only fail in a way to get a pay increase while doing something you enjoy. ;^)