• qarbone@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    If I’m understanding comments in other parts of this post, I don’t think Obamacare is cutting into his profit. His employer is making sure his hours are sub-full time, i.e. less than 40 hrs a week, to ensure they don’t have to provide him with healthcare, which is required by Obamacare.

    So getting a second job and qualifying for Obamacare are not part of the equation.

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      3 days ago

      My impression from the rest of the thread is that his current employer is the one that wants to avoid Obamacare.

      So if he just finds a second job with another employer, he can at least be earning more money, instead of being capped at 25 hours at his current one. And since he already is able to sustain himself on the first job, the 15 hours of working can significantly boost his savings from ~$100/month to 4 weeks *15 hours per week * 7.25 (fed min wage) ~$500/month. Doesn’t solve all problems, but just finding a full 40 hours of work quintuples how much financial slack they have, which is very significant.

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        A lot of part time jobs are inconsistent and demand full time availability so there’s no way to have 2 at once without them inevitably overlapping.

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          Yeah that’s fair. When I was working multiple jobs I was lucky enough that none of them demanded full time availability.

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          Don’t feel great dropping personal info online just to prove a point. I’ve had 3 concurrent part time jobs in the past, but one was tapering one off, so it was only 3 jobs for a few months, rest was 2 jobs. I was lucky that I had a regular schedule for all of them so I could make it work.

          I mean, yeah it sucked, but so does only being broke and I wanted out of it.

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              I’m going to guess that this comment beat you to the punch?

              So yeah, if you’re being scheduled for irregular shifts it’s not going to work out. Maybe something like Uber could help earn some extra income? But car wear and tear could cancel that out, unsure.

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                  Until I hear anything different from you, I’m just going to assume that comment already made the point you’re trying to make.

                  Given how much you’ve brought to the table for this conversation that seems to be a generous assumption. So far you have the charm of a power tripping cop, and the great thing about the internet is I don’t need to engage with that.

                  Have a good day!