I mean, it's the habit to go for a diagnosis even if you already know what it is, and it's nothing they can help with?

Yeah, a paid day off work is a big incentive. Last time I sat in the waiting room for an hour for a five-minute consultation: "Yes, I have a bad cold, no I can't take anything right now, please write me off work for the rest of the week". And that was that.

I can't believe Benno's almost three already! Seems like just yesterday he was being born.

Gosh, tell me about it.... What did I hear recently? The days are long but the years are short. I find that very true so far.

Got to go - dinnertime - I'll try and check in again later.

I just imagine getting a factory job plus a short-order cook job plus a maid job to be like winning the lottery three times instead of pretty easy like it is here.

What if your husband disappeared, cleaning out the checking account and leaving you $150K in debt, your kid needs braces and you have no dental insurance, one of your jobs is solely to pay for the daycare you need to pay for so you can work the other two, and so, you barely see your own children? What if the other two jobs will only put you in at 32 hours a week so they don't have to give you any benefits?

Not so much lottery at that point, as it is soul crushing pain, exhaustion, and terror that if anything should happen, should you get sick or hurt, that you'll be homeless.

You know, I only have the one paying job, and I scoff at the paltry sum of 1800 hours a year. Scoff, I say! t /deeply envious

I've never had a job that had vacation time or sick days. I get time off, I just don't get paid for it.

If I stay at the job I'm at now until sometime in June, I'll get vacation time, but I have no idea how much. I should find that out.

That sucks aurelia.

It's one of the drawbacks to the freelance thing.

So Jason Giambi made a heartfelt apology to Yankee fans the other day.

I saw this. His not explaining what he is apologizing for is worth $82 million, perhaps. I could be persuaded to not-explain for that sum.

Guy looked like he was waiting for his own execution, though. Which, I mean, this is New York -- he pretty much was.

Have nothing to say about jobs, people-hours, pay per people-hours, and benefits accrued therefrom. It is Friday and I am one meeting and one complicated email away from the weekend.

Sick Time Non-exempt (me) 10 days
Sick Time Exempt 2 months at the start up to 1 year after you have worked 10 years

Vacation Time Clerical (me) 15 days, and one extra day for every year worked after 4 years, up to 30 years. Vacation time Supervisory and Faculty starts at 25 days, but still maxes out at 30 days.

I would have thought that Vacation would be more of a contrast. I guest lower level people can't get sick?