Insurance

So I have been freaking out because I am now too old to be on my parents insurance and have quit my job that gave me insurance. Right before I moved back to NM I decided to have one last check up...and shocker they found pre-cancerous cells!! They want me to get checked again in a few months but whaddyaknow my insurance is up as of 9/1! Now I can apply for COBRA and pay A LOT of money a month or I can apply for BCBS...I went for this option since it was cheaper. Now I have had several nurses call me and ask me the same questions over and over trying to catch me in a web of lies about whether I smoke/drink, how much I weigh, and if my previous conditions have been "resolved"...I say no and their tone immediately sounds disheartening...I sure hope I get some insurance and don't have to hang out at the free clinics or even worse become one of those toothless bag ladies (that might be a little dramatic) but just another lovely part of getting older!
*Alanna

Hey guys... so Olivia pointed out to me that other people can't post anything on this thing and that totally defeats the purpose. So we are going to figure out what to do about that. Anyway I tried to go out for a little while last night with some friends then realized, Oh yeah I have to wake up at 5:30 in the morning and it sucks. My job is for sure ruining my life. However, I did hear an interesting thought the other day. A job allows you to have the money to do the things that you do enjoy, so that is how I am trying to look at things. We'll see if that helps but my guess is no.
*Erin

Here I am... 25 and nothing too exciting to show for it. I'm not complaining or feeling sorry for myself, I just wish someone would have sat me down and told me what the "real world" was going to be like. You graduate from college with all these big ideas in your head about this big important fancy job your gonna get and how everything will just fall in place. Then BAM you're out there in the world and that big corner office you thought you were going to get is really just a cubicle in an office filled with a bunch of other people who thought their lives were going to go in a totally different direction too. Not to mention that when you graduate you have some sort of debt to pay off, whether it be loans or credit cards and that's there greeting you with a big F U! So do I keep this job I just got and deal with it and become a grown up or do I keep looking for what really makes me happy?

*Erin

First Post

Well, I am here in Albuquerque and still trying to figure out what to do. I have about a million ideas floating through my head with deadlines fast approaching and still no clear idea of what to do. I know I can't live with my dad forever so I better get my a$$ in gear and figure this next step out. Here are my ideas so far... 1. grad school (but which program, I don't want to be in grad school forever but I don't really want to go the next logical step of an MBA either), 2. get a TESOL degree and apply to teach in a foreign country, 3. apply to teach for america ( do I really want to sign my life to them for 2 years?), 4. apply to americorps (I like community service and this is only a 9-12 month committment), 5. move to Vegas in the summer and cocktail (will I end up an old wrinkly cocktail waitress with a smokers cough and bunions?)...can you see my dilemma? Can my sister please be a model already so I can be her bag lady...or can I please win that lotto!
* Alanna