Archive for the 'Career Development' Category
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 [...]
Take a minute to ask someone, anyone: “Do you know what the Americans with Disabilities Act is?” Most likely you’ll hear Yes. Now ask, “What does the ADA do?” Maybe you’ll hear that it protects people with disabilities from discrimination. Funny how many people, with and without disabilities, know about this Act but don’t [...]
Are you living with a chronic illness and under 40? If you’re saying, YES, regardless of how debilitating or not your symptoms are, now it the time to take stock of your future in the workplace. Don’t wait until your hand is forced and you have no choice. I know because that’s what I did. [...]
Rocco’s keys to job success
Last winter, I wrote about Rocco Baldelli (Rocco or the Ram), once touted as the next Joe Dimaggio. But his playing with the Tampa Ray Devils was erratic. They knew he had talent but they couldn’t rely on him to play. When his contract ran out, he wasn’t rehired – he became a free agent. [...]
I think I can, I think I can.
“If you think you can, you’re right. If you think you can’t, you’re right, too.” Henry Ford. Career and chronic illness. Not exactly 2 things that go together, like peanut butter and jelly? In fact, it’s my experience that most people who learn that they’re living with a chronic illness figure that career can no [...]
A New Way — living with RA
This week, a unique website, New Way RA, goes live. It explores in depth how people living with rheumatoid arthritis, RA, can live a healthy and well-rounded life-style while facing the challenges of this disease. New Way RA is an online talk show. It’s features Deborah Norville interviewing experts on career, fitness, nutrition, personal relationships [...]
The good news, confided my client, is that so many people are in the same boat I’m in – for the first time. The bad news? The boat is sinking. Was he joking? No doubt, one difficult aspect of living with chronic illness, especially if you’re under 50, is that you feel so alone. You [...]
Check out the very useful information in The New York Times, Patient Money column, Protecting Your Job When You Live with Chronic Illness by Lesley Alderman. And, yes, there are several quotes from me. On reading this, a client emailed to let me know that she’s worried that now that I’m famous, I wouldn’t have [...]
Diabetes should not be the reason that Sonia Sotomayor does not get approved for the Supreme Court. Sotomayor acknowledges that diabetes has informed the person she has become. But like all of us, there are a multitude factors that create her life story, including growing up poor, losing her father at a young age, being [...]
Happy Memorial Day! Whether or not you’re employed, there’s a 3 day “weekend” up ahead. Some will “parade’, others might picnic, or maybe you’re just taking it slow, resting up for the week ahead. Likely you’ll be on the internet, even a bit. So why not use that time to your advantage? Give some [...]
