tandemtuna

tandemtuna t1_j4tal9y wrote

Recent experience: the health care system in general, and Mass Health in particular, actively discourage advanced planning and won't meaningfully interact with you until you've had a qualifying event. We tried to arrange coverage in November/December to begin the 1st of January, and it was like talking to a brick wall.

Magically, January 3rd, the 1st business day after our previous coverage had expired and we were "qualified", all of the sudden folks were willing to talk to us. Somewhat miraculously, the customer service was actually pretty good once we were "qualified".

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tandemtuna t1_iuk0cgl wrote

You might look into things that are law-adjacent; I'm thinking particularly of "compliance" work. There's quite a lot of that in both universities (research) and finance and I know some non-practicing lawyers who are happy in the niche.

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