Archive for February, 2011

Sue (my client, name and details changed) was having a bad time in a crohn’s disease “flare”.  For the first time, she couldn’t get to work reliably.  Luckily,  she had a job that could be done “virtually” and company policy allowed this.   After a a few weeks of struggling to get to the office, she [...]

 

Since becoming chronically ill over 30 years ago, I’ve held  the idea that wishing for better health wasn’t a good place to go.  It seemed like a slippery slope that could land me face down in the self-pity mud.  Instead, I’ve put my energy toward using distraction to keep me out of the pit and [...]

 

This month’s Career Blogging Collective Topic is: Job hunting rules to break. To read what the other bloggers have to say, scroll down. I wasn’t sure about this.  It’s not as if there are many “job hunting” rules in the chronic illness world.  But as I got started, I realized that over the years,   [...]