When is Your Busy Season at Work?

I work in Medicare. October 1 means we can start talking about next year's plans. October 15 we can start writing applications. That means 9 weeks of mostly 12-hour days. It's like tax season for a tax preparer.

Do you have a busy season in your work? When does it hit?

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

No, never did. Apart from the occasional few days overtime to deal with something genuinely unexpected I worked eight hours or fewer per day and five days a week for all my career.

Weeks of 12 hour days sounds like a combination of bad planning and exploitation.

ShadowSister · 46-50, F

@ninalanyon It does sound that way, haha. But it's not. We have a limited window of time to sell Medicare plans based on government regulations. Outside of that time, my company basically pays to keep me employed so they have me during this time. I am not required to work quite this much OT, but they I have to do some.

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@ShadowSister It's still bad planning, just at a higher level and outside the control of the company.

ShadowSister · 46-50, F

@ninalanyon Well there isn't really any better alternative. If they let people choose plans all year long, the prices would skyrocket. Everyone would take the least expensive plan and just switch to the plans with better coverage when they needed it.