Archive for the 'Career Development' Category
Good grief, charley brown.
Do you live with debilitating chronic illness that has led to significant life changes? If you’re nodding “yes”, most likely you’ve felt a strong sense loss. But have you experienced grief? I thought about the importance of grieving after reading two articles recently. The first was a news article about James Levine, the Metropolitan Opera [...]
This month’s career collective topic is “foolishness’ and job search/career (it is April 1!). I won’t offer specific tactics to avoid making a fool of yourself (I’ll leave that up to the other creative bloggers). But in my coaching practice, I get to see how people fool themselves and I’ll share my thoughts on that. [...]
Living with chronic illness can leave even the toughest person feeling vulnerable. You just wish that other people could “get it”, don’t you? I know from personal experience how hard this is in a marriage (How a Marriage Survives When One Person Gets Sick, MORE Magazine) . And marriage is all about the relationship, where [...]
Dogs can do it, can you?
This is the monthly #Career Collective Bloggers post. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to see the list of other bloggers and click on the links to read their valuable thoughts on the following question. This month’s question is: What advice do you have to help job seekers transition and make the most [...]
A reporter was interviewing me about chronic illness and working. She was very surprised when I said, “The single most important factor that helps a chronically illl person continue to work is to work in a flexible environment.” She asked me what “evidence” I have to support this. (Have you noticed how popular that word [...]
Holidays and a New Year. It can be a time of reflection – if you’re not too busy just getting by. Or maybe, the problem is you don’t know what to reflect on? It’s all so overwhelming. You might start here. Ask yourself, “What can I do for myself, right now so I can [...]
This month’s Career Collective topic is: Specific tips to help job seekers ramp up their efforts for the holiday season and the new year. At the end of this post, check out the collective wisdom of the career bloggers in the collective. Are you living with chronic illness and looking at the holiday season with [...]
You live with a chronic illness – waxing/waning pain, fatigue, impairment – and you’re determined to keep working. But just living in your body makes each day a challenge. Leaving your house to go to work each day — the commute, the schedule, the exposure to germs, the face to face when you’re feeling less [...]
Here’s a question I get frequently but you wouldn’t have heard 20 or even 10 years ago: Is self employment the best option for people living with chronic illness? It seems that most employed people dream of working for themselves. It certainly sounds freeing and creative, doesn’t it? No one makes a more compelling case [...]
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, [...]
