After Being Unemployed For Almost 4 Years, I Finally Got A Job This Week

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38. In my case, things aligned correctly.

First off, the people I interviewed with for the job are my age or older. That certainly helped immensely - no ageism! I have also been the victim of overt and covert ageism in the past 4 years.

Second, the job is in my field, which is nice. My previous job was in a related field, but not my actual field. Hopefully, this will be better = long term.

Third, yes, they will pay for my health insurance, and I will be able to add my family if I want. We are currently on the ACA Medicaid expansion here in CA. It has been excellent for us. I spoke with the Medi-cal people who informed me that I can stay on Medical until my household has earned $32,000, at which point we will need to pay for insurance. That means that I will be able to stay on Medi-cal through December, at which time their income-earned clock resets to $0, and we can stay on Medical until we've earned $32,000 sometime in 2015.

The tool I used to find the job? Believe it or not, Craigslist...which also happens to be where I found my last job as well.

BTW - 4 years of fruitless interviews etc, yet the time elapsed between when I sent my resume and the day I was hired for this job was 12 days. Twelve days!