My current employer doesn't provide healthcare, which is pretty funny considering that I spend my days and nights using all manner of heavy construction machinery or on a scissor lift 20 feet in the air. It's all very mercenary, an independant contractor. It does afford me certain types of freedoms (and wow, the characters I rub elbows with), but alas, medical attention isn't one of them. Sometimes I miss being a union employee.

Kinda saving money to upgrade my digital art arsenal, so when I get hurt... I usually just throw some duct tape on it. Guess I have peculiar priorities.

You see, I have a stubborn resistance to playing the system... or even attempting to interact with the system. To me, the daily drudgery of life is a necessary evil, all I really care about is art and artists or whatever project I'm working on at the moment. Perhaps I'm a kook, or some other negative moniker, but it's set in stone.

Severely off topic here, don't really have the desire to upset the powers-that-be at 'rosity because I value this community.