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This is optimal finance daily episode, the high cost of working sick, by

Alyssa Bass with Get Rich slowly.org.

And I'm Dan, your host and narrator, bringing you

welcome to the best blogs on personal finance in audio form and happy Friday to you welcome also to yet another milestone here on optimal finance daily episode 500

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The high cost of working sick by Alyssa Bass with Get Rich Slowly.org

It was big news recently when Hillary Clinton tried to go to work sick with pneumonia

and was forced to leave a 9-11 memorial event. It became even bigger news when every woman in America pointed out

she always works sick because there's always something or someone who needs you. Heck, I remember that time when I had a brutal

flu and was bedridden, but had to haul myself up and go pick up my six-year-old at her tennis lesson.

I had to stop the car twice on the way over and three times on the way back to vomit.

Good times.

But I digress.

Let's talk about the going-to-work sick part of this story, and not just for women, for everyone.

Especially in this day and age when so many of us are part-timers or contractors or self-employed. In the new gig economy we recently explored on this page,

there's often little or no paid sick time.

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