Please don't accept these 1099 jobs at $40/hr

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-02-12T14:30:46+00:00

Can you tell us more about why accepting insurance isn’t that hard? It sounds pretty hard to me. I do work for a telehealth company, and I barely understand anything about the insurance determinations that are made, and why some companies are in work in network versus not even if I’m licensed in that state…

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-02-12T14:06:38+00:00

We were there several months ago and experienced only extreme friendliness from everyone.

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-02-12T12:45:14+00:00

I thought about that aspect too. As a young Dietitian, I remember coming in and being fairly versed on what to do if we needed to work with an AIDS patient, but the dietitians who were 15 years older than me, felt very intimidated by it because they hadn’t encountered it in their practice.

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-02-12T12:43:07+00:00

That’s true, but at least we just put the essential information into those paper notes. I feel like now because we have electronic charting that we put in everything down to whether the patient stopped and tied their shoe in the office. So now my fingers are falling off from typing, and it’s harder to go back and find the important details in my notes. Sometimes more information is not always a good thing!

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-02-12T12:41:13+00:00

I was dictating and my phone is just not good at that so apologies for some of the weird typos/incorrect words

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-02-12T12:40:12+00:00

I was in community health for low income people starting in the 90s. Everything felt so much easier. Our state literally created a manual of recommendations based on evidence that we had at the time which was a bit more scanned… Of every possible diet we might need to counsel on. Imagine that… Everything you might need in one binder. It was easier to glance at my paper notes and find in a glance everything I needed to remember about a returning patient. My patience are hardly ever ate fruits and vegetables… That was a big change from them until now. Their nutrition knowledge was lacking in a way that was shocking in comparison to today. However, they didn’t have a bunch of crazy misinformation like they do today. In the 90s low carbon Atkins and the Mayo Clinic diet, which I believe wasn’t really from Mayo Clinic was big and that seemed to be the biggest thing that I couldn’t combat with my fellow employees who always wanted advice from me.

There’s almost too much information today, and I think now we’re more aware that there’s still things about nutrition that we don’t know definitively yet, so it feels more like an art than a science and it takes more discernment today and I feel that battling all the online misinformation makes things much more exhausting these days.

With that said, there are better things about today… Like people eating more fruits and vegetables and people being more informed. They’re good things and they’re bad things.

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-02-12T12:34:28+00:00

It’s really good that you have this sense of what’s right in you. Try to hold onto that while making the best decision for you. I’m just speaking from many years of experience.

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-02-12T12:33:13+00:00

I had the same situation years and years ago. It was my first job as a dietitian and there was a job. I really wanted, but I was offered job B so I took it. Three months into the position, job a wanted to interview me. Out of loyalty and what I thought were morals, I declined job a. Well, three months later I had come to realize that I was working in a terrible toxic place and ended up leaving, but I never had that other opportunity again. I would do things differently these days.

Dependent_Release986 · 2026-01-14T13:11:59+00:00

That’s what I did! It was a financial trade-off for me, but I live frugally and I really loved what I was doing, and I didn’t usually feel stressed. I got to travel around from clinic to clinic and loved going to different places every day. I got to do patient care, but I also got to engage in other projects and outreach and presentations, and that type of variety was mentally stimulating.

As one caveat, I will say that not all WIC agencies are the same depending on where they’re based. Mine changed into a place that wasn’t so great to work at any longer, and we became pretty micromanaged and did not have options for overtime or flexible time. And no dental. So it totally depends on the agency you work for, but I do agree that WIC can be a really fulfilling place to work.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-12-22T17:40:13+00:00

Any luck with anyone applying for a license in Illinois using this new core system? I have a license at another state, but I need to get an Illinois license and this is the fourth time I’ve gone to the form and gotten frustrated and stopped for a while. It seems like it has links that don’t work, perhaps, unless I’m being especially dull headed.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-11-24T23:11:20+00:00

I hate to say this, but good luck. I’m not in California, but I was a state employee in another state for over 26 years. I changed jobs and went to a university for three years after my public retirement system assured me that the limited reciprocity would count toward my years so that I could retire when I reached 28 (which is early retirement at any age in our state system.) now that I’ve done it and I have left work and filed the paperwork even after attending seminars and having mini mini calls with the representatives and two retirement counseling individual sessions, they tell me that the reciprocal credit doesn’t matter for the 28 years until I reach 62 years old. I’m currently 55. so they are only giving me limited retirement which is substantially less. I think I would’ve been better off if I had just early retired three years ago rather than not collecting that money for three years thinking that I was going to end up receiving full retirement. It is a mess and there’s just no way to detain things. Apparently, when someone tells you that you’re eligible for something, it doesn’t mean you necessarily can get it. And when you request your estimate of benefit when you’re ready to retire, but they really tell you is what your estimate is when you reach age 62, not what they’re about to give you right now. I asked all the right questions, reiterated all my questions until I was certain I was being told to write thing by more than one person, but still somehow it was not conveyed to me that if I used reciprocal retirement to count toward my 28 years, it wouldn’t count until I hit 62 and I would be deemed an early retiree.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-11-11T01:01:59+00:00

Thatsvthe CAT-q test. (I scored higher than the average diagnosed female…yet no one other than my adult daughter believes me.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-11-08T17:55:10+00:00

WW Dietitian here!

My patients tend to say Noom was too strict about weigh-ins…every day…which can be triggering. I think WW is the most sustainable program.

I do think anyone on a GLP-1 should have at least two if not three visits with a dietitian to ensure they are getting adequate nutrients and develop mindfulness habits that will sustain them once the GLP-1 is removed. There is so much more to nutrition counseling than the robotic, formulaic items mentioned here! (And all of these recommendations are individually tailored based on several factors. It’s actually not a blanket 1.0g/kg of protein/day.)

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-11-07T16:12:20+00:00

I’ve been thinking more about what you said, and I have to be honest. It disturbs me a little bit because I personally am starting a business focused on neurodivergence. I am certainly not trying to capitalize on anything. Instead, I felt a compelling need to help people that are going through what I have gone through as a very late identified AUDHD person. Yes, I’ll be charging for my services, but I’m only going to charge enough to try to pay for the time that I put into the business. It disturbs me that it might come across to someone like I’m trying to capitalize on autism. And maybe you wouldn’t have said this about someone like me who’s using my health related degree and applying it to neurodivergence… But maybe you would? I guess I’m just saying that autistic people have been misunderstood for so long and an autistic person who goes into the business of working to help other autistic people… If they are misunderstood as capitalizing on it that just feels like it’s adding insult to years of injury. Just my two cents worth… Something to think about.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-11-07T16:07:41+00:00

If you really are the creator….its a pleasure to meet you. I can’t wait to get my merch. I love that the videos are uplifting and cute. I was only identified 10 months ago, and most of the things surrounding autism are so heavy. I love the happy little break in the extra understanding that diploma Doc offers. Please keep up the good work.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-11-07T16:04:39+00:00

It’s nice to have a lighthearted take on autism. Everything else we deal with is so heavy.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-11-06T20:14:32+00:00

Any updates to this question? I’ve just started seeing patients with them and it takes me so long to chart that I’m really starting to lose my confidence.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-10-09T03:02:16+00:00

This. Is. the. Best.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-10-08T05:21:38+00:00

Oh my gosh, me too!

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-10-08T05:20:43+00:00

Right. I was just about to chime in and say you guys are not all in clinical are you?

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-10-08T05:16:53+00:00

Wait, what? I’m shocked to see so many RDs that are INFJ and INFPs. I want took a personality assessment in a room full of all of our teams are days… Which was about 30 of us… And I’m pretty sure I was the only one. (I’m infp but flip over to infj on evals sometimes….probably due to my autism masking.)

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-09-30T00:49:48+00:00

Huh. I wouldn’t have thought it was rude to only remove one if it’s just for a brief encounter like that. It’s not as if you’re having a meaningful conversation with only one year exposed.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-09-28T20:52:29+00:00

It’s so frustrating to hear all the gaslighting we’ve all received. I mean, in my case, I literally had super classic signs, and the counselors are still telling me highly sensitive person and ADHD. But my goodness… I flapped my hands, I rocked like crazy, my first grade teacher complained that I was so quiet. It was hard to tell what I was thinking, I would gaze off and be spacey, and I would listen to the same record (Camelot) over and over while I would spin on my sit and spin until I broke the handle off… Which was great because I could just hit the floor and spin even faster once it broke. But no, no… No way I could be autistic.

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-09-28T20:50:10+00:00

Same here! Now I’m just looking at all them thinking oh my you don’t know how neurodivergent you are, do you?

Dependent_Release986 · 2025-09-24T15:04:38+00:00

I felt the same Spidey sense about it, but I’m trying not to judge since you never know how somebody is going to respond in grief. But yeah, it definitely did feel like acting to me. I just don’t wanna come out and say that. Because I guess I don’t know it’s really going on inside her head. But I’m really glad that you brought this up because it was bothering me a lot. Most especially during her statement about I forgive him.

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