Archive for April, 2008
Dropping the ball and chain
If I had a dime for every time someone said to me,”I’d like to be self employed”, I’d be rich (well maybe my pockets would jingle). You don’t have to have a chronic illness to dream about self employment. But I can tell you from personal experience, it was a huge motivator for me. If [...]
QUESTION: What do a farmer and a job hunting person have in common? ANSWER: They both have to spread more seeds than they can ever use in the hope that some will sprout. A client, L, emailed me asking my opinion if she should go to a career expo, sponsored by Women for Hire. L [...]
How hard is it for you to regulate your own environment? How well do manage your resources? Forget it – you can’t look to the United States government or most of the developing countries of the world for a role model – they stink at it. Why? My theory is because it’s just not sexy. [...]
If Andy Warhol was right, I’ve used up my 15 minutes of fame. That’s how long it took for me to read this article “Working While Chronically Ill” , forward it to my family and take a breath to revel in the press! It’s in the “Shifting Careers” column of the Small Business section of [...]
In the past few weeks, I’ve “traveled” out of town twice: a short business trip and a longer vacation. And again I was reminded of my disabilities and their affect on what I do and how I do it. The take away message? Gotta’ be clear with myself about what I can and can’t do [...]
Several emails asked me to post a picture from my trip to Argentina. This was Iguazu Falls. Impressed that a sign indicated wheelchair accessibility — but disappointed no rating for “people with bad balance that gets worse in intense heat!” But we know that chronic illness symptoms are difficult to rate, don’t we? Which leads [...]
I recently discovered the website, celebrating uc success where I read about Joshua Reineke who is doing remarkable things — while living with a chronic illness, ulcerative colitis (UC) . I wrote Josh and asked him if I could interview him so you could hear his story. By the way, Josh is a graduate student [...]
If you don’t want to get all these emails in this blog, subscribe to my monthly, Words of Wisdom, the Chronic Illness at Work Newsletter) and unsubscribe (below) I sat down to write my usual post — about chronic illness, career, issues that move me. But, I’m distracted by my “to do” list: Work (did [...]
