Requested Update

I thought with two weeks before we leave for our vacation, that I would update you all on my wife's status. For those who missed the last post, which was actually just a paragraph embedded in another post, my wife's clinic shut down and she joined the ranks of the unemployed. After asking for her to retire and her saying no, she began a job search. 

As a seasoned veteran of job searching, I thought I could be of help but really wasn't. I was used to searching. Because she has an excellent reputation, she never really searched. She had to fend off offers near and far. Also not in my skill set, I helped her set up a matrix to review all of her many offers to narrow them down and eventually she chose the one that just felt like the right amount of cultural, benefits and gut feeling. My gut also agreed with her.

After verbally agreeing to work with the new place, what happened next was a week of waiting before they sent us a contract to sign. Of course there were a couple of changes that needed to be made to make my wife happy and they were agreeable to every single one, but it still took a couple weeks to return the revised contract to her for signing. My wife, not trusting my ability to read, understand and explain in plain English lawyer-ese, probably made the correct decision in hiring a local lawyer who regularly reads similar contracts to review hers. There wasn't anything earth shattering found but there were mention of two sections that didn't exist. So it went back to the employers attorneys to review and after two weeks of waiting, they simply removed the references to the phantom sections and sent it back.

My wife signed it as did her new employer so the contract is now binding.

Although not as stressful as my past experiences where I felt like I was almost begging to be hired and there were no negotiations before I signed a contract lest they just give the job to someone else, it still was a relief to both of us to have it signed and a future someone set.

My wife won't start working until July and even then has to go through some period of time for orientation and getting new accreditation to dispense medicine with this new outfit. It also means that any benefits won't start until August, including health insurance. Fortunately, we do have a federal law (COBRA) which allows us to continue health insurance through her previous employer for up to 18 months as long as we pay all the premiums and so we opted to take advantage of that over going through the painful process of setting up an ACA account and plan for the three months in-between plans. If I remember right, it took nearly three months to set up my MIL's account with all the required denials one must get first before being accepted. That was under Obama. No telling how difficult it is now under Trump.

So there is now a job lined up. My wife has let down all the other potential suitors and we are just waiting for her new employer to make the official announcement before we follow suit. Judging from the 100's of inquiries I have fielded in the last two months, once word is out there will be a flood of people jockeying for position to create appointments with my wife before her panel fills up and closes.  While that chaos unfolds, we plan to spend the next two weeks preparing for our trip and then disappear for a month. When we return, my wife will start her new job 3 days later.