Archive for October, 2009
This month the “Career Collective” collaborates with Quint’s Job Action Day. We’re asked to provide workers and job seekers with information, ideas and concrete steps to secure their futures in a changed economy. As always, I’ll do that with working with chronic illness in mind. When I graduated with a degree in photojournalism in 1973, [...]
Who needs a flexible workplace?
What do workers with chronic illness need to thrive in their jobs? When I was asked to speak to an audience of doctors and employers, I said that FLEXIBILITY RULES. It’s hard for healthy people to realize how important work/life balance is for those with chronic illness — when health demands impact a “normal” work [...]
When my friend, June, called about driving together to a dinner party an old friend had invited us to, I was surprised. I’d already told her we weren’t going because we were out of town. No, she said, I’d said that we were going. I was as sure I’d told her I wasn’t going as [...]
Although I focus on issues that come up working while living with chronic illness, I believe healthy & people with illness face the same issues. Just a different emphasis. As a member of a new community of resume writers and career coaches called the Career Collective, this post is one of many responses to the [...]
What happens if you’re a world class conductor and health problems prevent you from doing your job? James Levine, conductor of the Boston Symphony and the New York Metropolitan Opera is finding that out. He’s missed opening performances — and an indeterminate number hereafter — for surgery on a herniated disc. And this isn’t the [...]
