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> a good insurance plan

Can be purchased with money.

> flexibility in hours

Hard to not get flexibility if remote is on the table, which it usually is for these jobs.




When I was a consultant, I could not find a health insurance plan that was even vaguely the equal of my current job's health insurance. Not too expensive, but simply not offered.

That's not to say that job insurance is automatically good -- the job I had before being a consultant had worse health insurance that was a little worse than the plans I had as a consultant.


My plan next time I'm doing any kind of c2c type work will be to setup with trinet or another similar company to handle payroll benefits, even if it is just me.


You'd still have GP's problem of not finding any decent health insurance offered for a single-employee business. Google "adverse selection."


The health insurance would be from TriNet (not a single-employee business). There are similar collective businesses.


Good luck with that... I don't know what your definition of "good" is, but in looking around when my cobra policy ran out, there were definitely limited options, none of which came close to what most of the worker policies offered, and none covered my retina doctor. The eye injections I get would be more out of pocket than my net income right now... and after 7 months out of work, I was seriously considering jobs paying roughly half of where I'd been the past few years just to maintain a good insurance plan.

I had about 12 months of buffer, but several unplanned home and auto repairs ate into that.




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