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Yes, speaking from a hell of a lot of experience, being both employed and unemployed.

I used to have a lot of appointments with the dentist when I was looking for a new job.

More recently, I just made them meet me outside office hours.

In fact, in a lot of professional companies they really would understand, "yeah, but I have a job to cover the bills so do you mind if I meet you at 6pm?"

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You had dental insurance and "a lot of appointments with the dentist" while looking for a job? This was paid for by scrubbing toilets at McDonalds, or while on unemployment/just unemployed? Forgive me for being skeptical, but this doesn't match with my experience, nor the experience of anyone I know.

He claimed to have appointments with the dentists, but really he was meeting prospective employers.

I see. That still doesn't make sense while on break from a shift of cleaning toilets - that type of work makes it fairly difficult to break away from for any reason, and you're not going to be in the shape to meet up with a prospective desirable employer. Even low-level call center work, which I suppose you could call the lowest of white collar work, won't let you off for much - you'll get fired after accumulating a certain number of attendance points. Not to mention that someone in the position to ask for and accept these types of jobs can't really afford missing out on those hours of pay that come with.

Yes, the point is that I managed it.

And, no, I have never had dental insurance. I paid myself. I had a guy drill a tooth out raw (sans painkiller) for a much lower price once. That was quite the experience.

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