Mo Ving Ou T

Hmm. I guess that could go in the Traveling section of ThingsToDiscuss. After all, it is getting out of the house. So yeah, I might be moving out soon and I want some advice and experiences from other people. So share! -wanderlust

• When it comes to moveing day do your boots up tight. It helps you be brave..well for me at least..oh..and pack your teadybear too they always help you be brave

• Keep your savings, especially a month's rent... it's an almost neccesarty safety net. I know this from expreience with the contrary. Ari.

if your looking for a job DON'T BE PICKY. money helps you live.heehee

-knuteboy

• and just because you have a job, dose not meen that you can not look for another one, or have more then one job, and who knows, maybe you will find something better, and if not, you will at least have some idea what else you could be doing, or not doing.

Moving out is probably one of the top and foremost ideas in my mind. ~Jasmine

Okay, this I will contribute to, since I've been "out of the nest" for almost exactly three years now. And it's probably taken this long to figure everything (mostly) out.

   Actually, do be picky about a job. Ideally you want a job that will
satisfy you as far as coworkers, pay, and actual tasks. Health insurance is
also a very good thing to have, if you want to make a clean(ish) break from
your parents or whomever. The trick is finding a cool job that pays enough
to support yourself and also provides the standard benefits like health and
dental. 

 On the health note, find out  about free or sliding-scale clinics and
low-cost insurance plans in your intended city/neighborhood. I've heard that
in Washington there's an insurance plan for people who make less than 1300
dollars a month that only cost 10 dollars a month and covers alternative
health treatments like massage therapy. I quit the job I had that provided
health insurance, since I'm young and healthy, and earn a small enough
income to take advantage of sliding-scale clinics.

More later.

  Hannah

Ditto to Hannah. Health insurance is really important. I've been out of the nest for four months, and I've already rung up around $2000 in medical bills. Luckily I have health insurance payed for by my great grandmother's trust, because I havn't found a job.

Hannah mentioned low cost health insurance options. I recomend that you look carfully at these before you buy. My (not low cost) insurance has a $1000 deductible (sp?), which means that I have to pay $1000 before the insurance pays a cent. After that I have to pay 40% untill I've payed another thousand. If I was at home using one of my insurance companys Prefered Providers, those numbers would be lower, but even a $50 0 deductible is a big chunk when unemployed. I am definatly looking in to getting a lower deductible (i.e. paying more) as long as somone else is paying for it.

Deductibles work on an annual basis, meaning that at new years (or some other date) your tally drops back to zero.-Lorin, running off to get his catheter removed.