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Of course, if both people WANT to work...

Submitted by Denise on September 10, 2007 - 05:37.

I am the one who earns the second income (no health insurance, also the smaller income) in our household. I definitely would rather do what I do, and spend a little more on eating out, have someone come in every other week to clean, etc., than to do those things myself. But I also think that I'm in that rare 5-10% of people who enjoys what they do, and I'm self-employed.

It's definitely the health insurance issue, though, that drives me to work and save. I cannot find work I like that would provide health insurance, and so if anything happens to my husband's job, we'll be paying for his health insurance out of unemployment and my smaller income until he finds a new job.

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