I was making $50,000 a year when my spine tried to kill me and I ended up taking 10 vicodin a day just to survive. 2 to get out of bed, 2 when I got to work, 2 at lunch, 2 when I got home, and 2 to be able to sleep. I didn’t miss work. I made my rent payments.
False consensus says what?
Now let’s add chaos:
That’s a thousand- to a million-dollar hit. What’s the plan for absorbing that?
Teachers in Canada make less, but don’t have the spectre of financial ruin from injury or illness hanging over them.
I was making $50,000 a year when my spine tried to kill me and I ended up taking 10 vicodin a day just to survive. 2 to get out of bed, 2 when I got to work, 2 at lunch, 2 when I got home, and 2 to be able to sleep. I didn’t miss work. I made my rent payments.
I was miserable, but I figured it out.