I could use a hug or some cute pet pictures
I got through the final file box today but in it was a) my medical licenses b) all my malpractice stuff c) my first teaching job's pay scale paperwork d) the source of my worst few years of life e) the lawsuit over my hand.
a) I'm keeping my licenses because I can't give them up (I mean yes they're expired but I want to keep them)
b) outside of a few pieces just in case, I put the malpractice in the shredder
c) This is why I will ALWAYS be against adjuncts because it's such a horrible exploitive system that benefits no one, not the students, not the adjunct, no one but the budget. I was paid 2950$ for 16 weeks of work (about 4K today) not per month. That was four months worth of money. You're reading it right. In 2004 I was being paid 740$ a month. I would have been homeless or living in a dorm if not for a friend who let me stay. My parents paid for my medical insurance and I was lucky to have that
d) Starting in 2004 I was no longer going back to school post injury and I am now responsible for my medical school loans plus all the new grad school loans. Needless to say no one cared I was making 700$ a month. As bad as student loans are now, they were worse 20 years ago. (You should see what's in the shredder pile for the last few days of ALL the bullshit I used to have to do to get an income based repayment. Now I just have to let them see my IRS filing) Eventually I was sued by one of them which in a way was good. The federal court saw my 700$ income and laughed them out of court. Eventually when I got the job I have now I was hit with a 500/month lien on my income which was doable.
But there was default paperwork coming daily. For each and every loan (over 6 years of schooling) so I would have a half dozen each week (not to mention all the calls on my answering machine) It got to the point I couldn't even open the letters. They all said the same thing anyhow. I wouldn't leave my office because if I came home I'd see them and have more panic attacks. When I was still in WI (making that 700$) I was nearly instituionalized over the severe impact on my mental health. In the first few years here in OH (especially 2004-2007) it was bad. they would call and threaten me, literally threaten me (I mean they DID send the police after me when I was in WI to serve a warrant on me for nonpayment before they sued me)
Finally they came up with the income based repayment plan (which they didn't have in the beginning) they'd threaten me with 'you can only have this for a year or two which was bullshit since 20 years later I still have this).
So finding all this paperwork still opened was HARD today. I had to open them all up so what could go in the recycler went there and what needs to be shredded/burned when in that pile.
e) my lawsuit. If you work with your hands or your back (nurses, looking at you) check your state's worker's comp. I didn't know that WI would only pay 10% of my salary for a hand even though I was a frakking surgeon. No lawyer would take my case because it would pay too little. Finally found a desperate small town one who did. got 2K for my career ending injury. I will never be over this. That grief, that loss doesn't heal.
so yeah it's been a rough day, made even rougher because someone trashed the washing machines here so I had to go to Jackson and use their much more expensive ones. Sigh.
So yeah if you have cute pet pics hit me up.
My only good news is I DID send in a story to an open call. I doubt it will get in (they were pretty clear they wanted things closer to the low end of their word count range but there was no way to get that story down to 3K, it is what it is).
Oh and I asked the library to get Lackadaisy. We'll see what happens
What I Just Finished Reading:
Who Cries from the Lost - C.S. Harris. Love this series. This was good
What I am Currently Reading:
Lies on the Serpent's tongue - sequel to Bittersweet in the Hollow (so very Appalachian and oddly the protagonist in this can tell lies just like in Twisted Shadows only she tastes them) it's an arc
Nightshade by John Saul. The library had a bunch of horror out for the season so I grabbed some
What I Plan to Read Next: more library horror
a) I'm keeping my licenses because I can't give them up (I mean yes they're expired but I want to keep them)
b) outside of a few pieces just in case, I put the malpractice in the shredder
c) This is why I will ALWAYS be against adjuncts because it's such a horrible exploitive system that benefits no one, not the students, not the adjunct, no one but the budget. I was paid 2950$ for 16 weeks of work (about 4K today) not per month. That was four months worth of money. You're reading it right. In 2004 I was being paid 740$ a month. I would have been homeless or living in a dorm if not for a friend who let me stay. My parents paid for my medical insurance and I was lucky to have that
d) Starting in 2004 I was no longer going back to school post injury and I am now responsible for my medical school loans plus all the new grad school loans. Needless to say no one cared I was making 700$ a month. As bad as student loans are now, they were worse 20 years ago. (You should see what's in the shredder pile for the last few days of ALL the bullshit I used to have to do to get an income based repayment. Now I just have to let them see my IRS filing) Eventually I was sued by one of them which in a way was good. The federal court saw my 700$ income and laughed them out of court. Eventually when I got the job I have now I was hit with a 500/month lien on my income which was doable.
But there was default paperwork coming daily. For each and every loan (over 6 years of schooling) so I would have a half dozen each week (not to mention all the calls on my answering machine) It got to the point I couldn't even open the letters. They all said the same thing anyhow. I wouldn't leave my office because if I came home I'd see them and have more panic attacks. When I was still in WI (making that 700$) I was nearly instituionalized over the severe impact on my mental health. In the first few years here in OH (especially 2004-2007) it was bad. they would call and threaten me, literally threaten me (I mean they DID send the police after me when I was in WI to serve a warrant on me for nonpayment before they sued me)
Finally they came up with the income based repayment plan (which they didn't have in the beginning) they'd threaten me with 'you can only have this for a year or two which was bullshit since 20 years later I still have this).
So finding all this paperwork still opened was HARD today. I had to open them all up so what could go in the recycler went there and what needs to be shredded/burned when in that pile.
e) my lawsuit. If you work with your hands or your back (nurses, looking at you) check your state's worker's comp. I didn't know that WI would only pay 10% of my salary for a hand even though I was a frakking surgeon. No lawyer would take my case because it would pay too little. Finally found a desperate small town one who did. got 2K for my career ending injury. I will never be over this. That grief, that loss doesn't heal.
so yeah it's been a rough day, made even rougher because someone trashed the washing machines here so I had to go to Jackson and use their much more expensive ones. Sigh.
So yeah if you have cute pet pics hit me up.
My only good news is I DID send in a story to an open call. I doubt it will get in (they were pretty clear they wanted things closer to the low end of their word count range but there was no way to get that story down to 3K, it is what it is).
Oh and I asked the library to get Lackadaisy. We'll see what happens
What I Just Finished Reading:
Who Cries from the Lost - C.S. Harris. Love this series. This was good
What I am Currently Reading:
Lies on the Serpent's tongue - sequel to Bittersweet in the Hollow (so very Appalachian and oddly the protagonist in this can tell lies just like in Twisted Shadows only she tastes them) it's an arc
Nightshade by John Saul. The library had a bunch of horror out for the season so I grabbed some
What I Plan to Read Next: more library horror