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The Annual Enrollment Period for people who are on or want to join a Medicare Advantage Plan runs each year from October 15th thru December 7th for enrollment, disenrollment, or plan changes for the following calendar year. My day job is working for a Medicare Advantage Plan provider, a non-profit that I think provides excellent service, but that is personally just my opinion and not an endorsement.

Anyway, the point is this is the busy season for my job. We bring on contract workers and overtime is offered but usually the extra hours become available later in the cycle. People tend to wait and procrastinate about getting in that paperwork so late November is often when my particular team starts being offered that sweet sweet overtime money.

Not this year.

We aren’t a week into the period and already the call has gone out, ‘If you want to work overtime, it’s yours.’

I am up at 5:30 A.M. this morning and expect that to be standard for the next week; it’s going to be tiring.