Archive for February, 2010
Finding opportunity in quicksand
Being a career collective blogger gives me a monthly reminder that people living with illness face the same issues as healthy people. This month’s questions are (you can find links to my fellow blogger posts at the end of this article): What do you do when you’re really, really, really discouraged about your unsuccessful job [...]
After many hours spent filling out forms and dotting my ” i’s”, I’ve been awarded a contract as a vendor for the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work program. I tend to do poorly with forms and details (just ask my husband!) and I knew it would be torture. Yet another example of the devil [...]
If you live with chronic illness, you’ve probably realized that: Symptoms can come and go when you least expect it The intensity and how it impacts you can vary This can wreck havoc on your job How do you explain the changes? Yesterday you were able to get to work and do your job just [...]
This weekend, while preparing our taxes, my husband mentioned that he’d been paying a credit card expense. It was a small monthly fee and he’d assumed it was a business expense that I’d mistakenly put on our personal charge card. The unfortunate truth is, it’s not unusual that I make such mistakes. But I didn’t [...]
