Mine, not his.
Am back in DC and have shifted over to administrative matters -- getting his bills paid, maintaining his account balances, trying to push on the law firm and the Visiting Nurse Service to close up his Medicaid application, trying to find out if they'll accept a letter from me instead of from the brokerage estimating a minimum IRA distribution for 2008. The compliance department of the brokerage doesn't want the broker to issue the letter, which is what the lawyers had requested. The brokerage feels that the decision to take a given distribution is mine, not theirs. Makes sense to me. But will the attorneys and the VNS Medicaid staff agree?
Another day in the life...
I'm a consultant, and at the moment that works out well for me -- it leaves me free to keep track of the home care establishment and to run my father's household and to visit once a week.
In some future life, things might change. And I can see a prospective employer saying, well, this is good up to a point, I can see what your consulting work is about but you were once a senior manager, too -- what happened with that?
And I'll talk about my second full-time job -- the one where I'm in charge of two law firms (two partners, an associate and a paralegal), a home care agency (case manager, social worker, Medicaid processing unit and a team of aides), a brokerage (financial advisor and two staffers), two accountants, a building maintenance staff, a medical alert firm, an animal hospital, utilities, communications services, and a hefty budget distributed across five accounts at two institutions.
That's apart from the nightly phone calls and the weekly visits and my third career as an amateur gerontologist.
They'll either get it or they won't.
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