[speaker001:] Brian in Plano Texas how are you doing today
[speaker002:] hi fine I'm Nancy how are you
[speaker001:] great Nancy
[speaker002:] I'm in Plano also yes we're not too long distance today
[speaker001:] you're in Plano also uh  well good to hear I was just talking to someone the other day from Pennsylvania
[speaker002:] oh that was good Utah I've had a couple of but that was it
[speaker001:] really
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] all right well good to hear good to hear
[speaker002:] learned about their basketball team
[speaker001:] which one
[speaker002:] uh Jazz
[speaker001:] oh yeah the Utah Jazz
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] yeah they're they're pretty good they got some
[speaker002:] that's what I heard yeah
[speaker001:] good good some good uh good players out there
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] well you ready for New Year's Eve
[speaker002:] I am
[speaker001:] good should we uh start this so we can what was your name again Nancy that's right and I'm Brian just a moment
[speaker002:] okay Nancy right right
[speaker001:] okay Nancy the I guess the today's subject is benefits in a job other than salary what uh what do you feel are important to you or other people as as crucial benefits
[speaker002:] right uh-huh well I'm a little different than other people because I don't have benefits with my job
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] I'm a nurse and I work I float
[speaker001:] oh uh-huh
[speaker002:] so that I have no benefits except higher pay for doing that
[speaker001:] right uh-huh
[speaker002:] so I find that it makes up for what I pay for insurance and I I make enough money by the hour to make up for that
[speaker001:] to to compensate for some of the benefits oh
[speaker002:] right uh-huh yeah it's cheaper for me to buy insurance by the month than to work staff someplace
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] and then I have my freedom I can work seven days in a row and take a week off or whatever I want to do
[speaker001:] well that's that's an excellent so actually that is a benefit uh
[speaker002:] well it is to me most people prefer the security of nine to five and weekends off and
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] knowing that their insurance is paid and their retirement and I'm just really not interested in all that
[speaker001:] right right well I guess that's a good point uh I do belong to a a large corporation or my that where I'm currently employed
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and there's uh there's some different things uh one that you've already mentioned is is health insurance I think through our health insurance that I can get better rates as a through a group plan
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] as opposed to going out and getting health insurance on an individual basis because I had to do that at one time when I wasn't employed with a large corporation and that got to be somewhat expensive and so I I think one of the benefits I I see is the uh is the group uh group discount
[speaker002:] yeah right and especially if you have a family then I think it makes a big difference
[speaker001:] yeah and yes and that's that's one thing I do have
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] if I didn't have a family I don't think I would have as as a male or as a as an individual of in this stage of my life I don't think I would have insurance uh other
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] I don't think I would go through that expense one other benefit that you mentioned is the flexible work hours and in my previous job I really enjoyed because they had what was called a flex schedule where I could go and I could work uh nine hour days and have like Friday only work four hours or I could do uh work four days a week at ten hours a day and have a four you know three week day weekend
[speaker002:] oh yeah right
[speaker001:] and make uh make my job flexible in that case
[speaker002:] could you change that as you felt like it or did you have to do it the same every week
[speaker001:] well basically yeah I had to do that uh the same uh for about every quarter of the year I mean
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh because I was in a in a position of management I had responsibilities over people that uh I needed to make my schedule uh so that if I was not there I would have coverage by some other management personnel so
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so I I think that uh that was a that was an excellent benefit that I really enjoyed and I don't currently have that in my current operation but uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] you mentioned uh flexible work schedule and that's that's good
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and uh what other benefits do you think are important
[speaker002:] oh well I guess retirement that kind of thing which I don't worry much about so
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that's true
[speaker002:] I just prefer to worry about today and probably not a practical attitude but that's who I am so
[speaker001:] well and that's an individual thing
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] yeah with uh with our current uh organization we do have a nice retirement package and also a a nice thing that that we have in our corporation is a uh is a profit sharing plan where we can uh participate in the the profits of the company if we're you know if we've been there a while and we're vested uh which means that you know we have a an interest uh in the company that we can
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] uh get some of the benefits of the either the profit high times or or in a sense suffer during the low times and uh also uh in one of my wife's uh companies where she worked they'd had a real nice profit sharing plan that that effectively they made a certain