Lol, I don't know that I would consider it humiliating, what an odd thing for you to say.

Its a corporation. Once you work for a corporation, at work you are not a person, you are a cog. They will work you to max corporate benefit and you will get as much money and QOL from them as you can. That's how it is. Its not the same as working for a privately owned small business but the only exit strategy for the guy who owned our practice was to sell to a corporation, no one else would be able to afford it. So of course I was eventually going to work for a corporation and as these things go, we were sold to one of the more benign corporations out there.

The guy who used to own our practice is true gold. I knew what I could earn in this market (my pay is completely tied to my production) and that he would not mess with the my compensation structure. With the corporation, I can't be sure of anything to do with compensation, except that I know they will try to do whatever they think they can get away with to minimize my pay as a hospital expense. Do I think that's "right"? Nope. But that's they way it is, not exactly humiliating for me to be working for a company that does something I consider "wrong". All of us specialists that work here are very fortunate people. If we get squeezed too hard, we just walk. There are way more available jobs than there are veterinary specialists to fill them.

The boat is a Jeanneau 42i. Lovely thing. 3 cabins, 2 heads. Very classy and elegant. We imagined we'd go world cruising but then some friends got killed off the coast of Africa near the Red Sea by pirates on a sail passage they'd invited us to join them on (obviously we declined). I lost my taste for difficult sailing then and became mostly interested in local coastal cruising, then eventually I was only interested in heading out to Catalina Island, then I became more interested in bikes than sailing. Mr. H was really the sailor out of the two of us, and I thought he'd be disappointed when we decided to sell. But truthfully, he's owned sail boats off and on his whole life and he's fine with going into an off phase right now. Boats are a lot of work and all of it falls on him. He's pretty jazzed about the idea of getting a camping sprinter van after we sell the boat. More mountain biking trips with the van.