Like many other topics here, this is a very big subject, with different angles to look at it.  Have you ever wondered why so many people are obsessed with "benefits" at the workplace, or a carrot/stick approach to choosing a career?  That's because people wrongly think that you need benefits in the event that you get sick.  This is entirely true, but a big however is that did you know you can prevent nearly every sickness by mainly the proper supplementation regime.We should stop viewing the employer as the parent figure in the benefit relationship, nor let it sway you into a career field simply because it provides good pay and good benefits, because money won't buy health and drugs don't cure anything (chronic conditions anyway)!  Of course, these two things are useful in the current short-cycle, disposable 'system' we live in, but we should be looking at why you are choosing what you do.