Comments on: Chronic illness making you think about a new job? http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2008/09/have-you-talked-to-a-virtual-assistant-today/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:30:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Shauna Harrelson http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2008/09/have-you-talked-to-a-virtual-assistant-today/comment-page-1/#comment-4545 Shauna Harrelson Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:41:03 +0000 http://workingwithchronicillness.com/?p=447#comment-4545 Thanks Rosalind! Your link on my blog is very popular btw, and I love to 'see you' in my inbox!! Every post of yours has such an inviting title, and so much information. Speaking on behalf of all those I know, and those that I don't, (yet), that suffer from the stigma of Chronic Illnesses/Pain in the workplace; thank you Rosalind. Thank you for devoting your life and your heart to those that need your help, to continue working, despite Chronic Illness/Chronic Pain. We need to feel as fulfilled as our co-worker, that skips into work, able to lift and bend and reach. We need to be a part of society just like those that do not deal with any physical/mental issues, that do not have to take breaks, and medications at certain times throughout the day-- while at work. Your positive attitude, suggestions, creative thinking, and pure love for what you do is a true gift to us all. You have touched many lives, and changed many too; with your help and coaching. Just to read what you have to say everyday is something that can pull us all together, the strong bond that Chronic Illness/Chronic Pain sufferers have with each other is amazing, and your information has touched us all. We need strong, devoted people speaking FOR us, representing the Hidden Illness community, experiencing her own hidden illnesses just like us; and Rosalind, your voice has reached so many. Thank You. Shauna Thanks Rosalind! Your link on my blog is very popular btw, and I love to ’see you’ in my inbox!! Every post of yours has such an inviting title, and so much information. Speaking on behalf of all those I know, and those that I don’t, (yet), that suffer from the stigma of Chronic Illnesses/Pain in the workplace; thank you Rosalind. Thank you for devoting your life and your heart to those that need your help, to continue working, despite Chronic Illness/Chronic Pain. We need to feel as fulfilled as our co-worker, that skips into work, able to lift and bend and reach. We need to be a part of society just like those that do not deal with any physical/mental issues, that do not have to take breaks, and medications at certain times throughout the day– while at work.

Your positive attitude, suggestions, creative thinking, and pure love for what you do is a true gift to us all. You have touched many lives, and changed many too; with your help and coaching. Just to read what you have to say everyday is something that can pull us all together, the strong bond that Chronic Illness/Chronic Pain sufferers have with each other is amazing, and your information has touched us all. We need strong, devoted people speaking FOR us, representing the Hidden Illness community, experiencing her own hidden illnesses just like us; and Rosalind, your voice has reached so many. Thank You.

Shauna

]]> By: Rosalind Joffe aka cicoach.com http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2008/09/have-you-talked-to-a-virtual-assistant-today/comment-page-1/#comment-4544 Rosalind Joffe aka cicoach.com Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:18:33 +0000 http://workingwithchronicillness.com/?p=447#comment-4544 I'm familiar with travel nursing - and contract nurses (nurses per diem). If you can make it work, more power to you! It's a difficult balance figuring out the short term with the long term. Best wishes for your success, Shauna. I’m familiar with travel nursing – and contract nurses (nurses per diem). If you can make it work, more power to you! It’s a difficult balance figuring out the short term with the long term. Best wishes for your success, Shauna.

]]> By: Shauna Harrelson http://workingwithchronicillness.com/2008/09/have-you-talked-to-a-virtual-assistant-today/comment-page-1/#comment-4540 Shauna Harrelson Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:03:18 +0000 http://workingwithchronicillness.com/?p=447#comment-4540 Rosalind, What a great article!! I am now embarking on being a free agent in the world of nursing. No more office politics, no more feelings of not being appreciated. Travel Nurses are covering for vacations, pregnancy leaves, and other staffing holes in the facility they are working in for 13, weeks, 26, or any combination you pick. The other nurses there are very happy to see the traveler there, picking up the open shifts. The travel nurses pick where they want to go, how long to stay, the assignment they are familiar with in their area of expertise, and many, many benefits. I am of course throwing myself into self-employment, although my first try was my own company started a few years ago. I still work through it, Clinical Micropigmentation. I thought a new way of 'still being a nurse', without the hard physical positions asked of us in a Hospital, etc.; may be the way to address my love of nursing with my daily pain. I went to school to learn this Profession, and I do anything do figure out things that will go 'with' my physical issues, rather than go 'against' them. I found being still and in one main position, (even if for just a bit), in a chair over a patient for hours at a time, was tough work. Although it didn't look it; kind of like us with our Invisible Illnesses! Only WE know the pain is there. I must do this, (Travel Nursing), or I will regret having never tried. That is how I have lived my life, and my pain will not stop me. Along with having to do this for the money, I beleive I can make up my 'wish list' to the recruiters, and find myself in Hawaii where I used to live, feeling every day as if it was the most beautiful one I had ever seen, smelling the ginger flowers....I can think of worse jobs. :-) And I am going to do it, I am now booked for Oct. through Dec. for flu shot clinics in different stores. My first free-agent Nursing assignment! And it will be as perfectly tailored to me physically, as I can ask for right now. I am 'testing' my DNA to see if this will continue, being a self-employed, self-driven and self-responsible for getting my own jobs. I wish you a day of no or low pain Rosalind, thank you for your always insightful writings! Shauna Rosalind,

What a great article!! I am now embarking on being a free agent in the world of nursing. No more office politics, no more feelings of not being appreciated. Travel Nurses are covering for vacations, pregnancy leaves, and other staffing holes in the facility they are working in for 13, weeks, 26, or any combination you pick. The other nurses there are very happy to see the traveler there, picking up the open shifts. The travel nurses pick where they want to go, how long to stay, the assignment they are familiar with in their area of expertise, and many, many benefits. I am of course throwing myself into self-employment, although my first try was my own company started a few years ago. I still work through it, Clinical Micropigmentation. I thought a new way of ’still being a nurse’, without the hard physical positions asked of us in a Hospital, etc.; may be the way to address my love of nursing with my daily pain. I went to school to learn this Profession, and I do anything do figure out things that will go ‘with’ my physical issues, rather than go ‘against’ them.

I found being still and in one main position, (even if for just a bit), in a chair over a patient for hours at a time, was tough work. Although it didn’t look it; kind of like us with our Invisible Illnesses! Only WE know the pain is there.

I must do this, (Travel Nursing), or I will regret having never tried. That is how I have lived my life, and my pain will not stop me. Along with having to do this for the money, I beleive I can make up my ‘wish list’ to the recruiters, and find myself in Hawaii where I used to live, feeling every day as if it was the most beautiful one I had ever seen, smelling the ginger flowers….I can think of worse jobs. :-) And I am going to do it, I am now booked for Oct. through Dec. for flu shot clinics in different stores. My first free-agent Nursing assignment! And it will be as perfectly tailored to me physically, as I can ask for right now. I am ‘testing’ my DNA to see if this will continue, being a self-employed, self-driven and self-responsible for getting my own jobs.

I wish you a day of no or low pain Rosalind, thank you for your always insightful writings!

Shauna

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