Health Care
There’s a problem with me cleaning theaters as a job; it doesn’t provide health care. I have medications that I need to take to function at my job. As of right now, I’m still covered by my mom’s plan but in a few months, that will run out. What am I going to do when I need to get health care? I can’t even think of working a “real” job right now because of the stress level and my anxiety being as bad as it is. What am I going to do for my prescriptions? If I can’t get them, I’ll probably lose my job at the movie theater as well, because I can handle ZERO stress without my meds.
If I get into graduate school for art, maybe I can find some type of plan that will give me health care while I’m in grad school. I don’t know of any as of yet. But if not, what will I do? I have no clue.
It isn't just grad students who are concerned about health care coverage. Today's workers are struggling to figure that one out as well. You have two concerns going on here but I'm only going to address the obvious -- health care.
The graduate schools that I know of have some sort of student health care plan available. If you are not a local student, the school probably requires you to have health insurance in order to live on campus. It would be in your best interests to check with the Registrar's (or Financial Aid) Office of the schools to which you applied to find out what sort of coverage they offer.
The other thing you want to know is where to get affordable health care insurance for yourself whether a student or an employee. So the next thing you'll want to research is what health plans are out there. On online research of insurance providers and companies that provide a variety of plans should be easy and yield a good complement of research choices.
I would suggest that you start looking at want ads in the newspaper and online, and hit the streets looking for a job that offers benefits. It should not be that hard to find. It sounds as though you have a Bachelors, and many, many jobs that any college graduate could handle go wanting because the right candidate does not show up. BE THE RIGHT CANDIDATE. Also, there are breathing exercises and stress reduction techniques, which you should be employing along with your medication.