Robert Hajime Lanning <lann...@lanning.cc> writes: > I understand the want to use contract to hire, but I completely do not > like it from the hiree side. This is pretty much completely about > healthcare insurance for me. > > I am diabetic. To go two to three months without healthcare is > completely unacceptable. I would have to get considerably more money > during the contract portion, to even consider it.
You have a point, you are going to have a hard time hiring someone out of a safe, cushy job into a "maybe I'll hire you" contract position in any case, nevermind someone who can't go a few months without health insurance, though, CORBA and similar help a lot with the latter. (as an employer, in my case, I don't have to worry about that... nobody who can get a safe, high paying job is going to work for me at the wages I can afford to pay.) But yeah, it's generally assumed that if you don't go through a body shop (which captures most of the risk premium of contracting) one gets paid a pretty good premium for working contract rather than full time. I sympathize with the need for insurance; in fact, I'm currently looking for a gig with insurance right now, 'cause when my CORBA expired I was an idiot and I didn't get cal-corba while the window was open. (my trouble is not finding a gig; I have plenty of offers. My problem is that honestly, the chances of me sticking around for more than, say, three months approach zero, as prgmr.com pays my bills, and I don't really want to go tell someone I intend to stay when I really intend to use them for health insurance. I talk a lot of shit about body shops, but it looks like that's my best bet right now.) I'm not in horrible shape health wise, but I'm too far gone to even be considered for non-group coverage. I had a detached retna the other year (treated... I can see okay) and a history of ADD... nobody will touch me. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
