If I had a dime for every time someone said to me,”I’d like to be self employed”, I’d be rich (well maybe my pockets would jingle). You don’t have to have a chronic illness to dream about self employment. But I can tell you from personal experience, it […]

Do you think about being self employed but are worried about the health insurance? A reporter recently asked me if that’s a stumbling block for people with chronic illness. You can read more about health insurance for the chronically ill in the Small Business Column, The New York Times, Finding […]

I discovered 2 gold nuggets today that you can use to plan and build your career:
This is from the career blog, Dilbert:
“If you want an average successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something […]

Career change is a hot topic. It’s the number one issue for most of my coaching clients . But they’re not thinking about this because they’re bored or don’t like their jobs. It’s because they CAN’T do their jobs as expected.
Diagnosed at 29 years old with multiple sclerosis (temporarily blind in one eye […]

Most of my clients need to make big changes in their work lives - given their illness challenges. This can mean finding a new job, developing a new career - or just changing long standing habits that are getting in your way now.
When you think about a change like […]

Can you have a “career” if you live with chronic illness?

The truth is that illness often leads to some kind of job change. Not that it’s the first thing people think about when they get a diagnosis. But from my work coaching people with chronic illness around their career […]

A question that inevitably comes up when I’m working with a client who is in a career shift (and needless to say, lives with chronic illness) : “Should I/ could I/ would I start my own business?”

Who hasn’t thought/dreamed about this? Especially us - the working and chronically […]