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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 [...]
Recently I experienced, yet again, how hard it is to work and live with waxing/waning chronic illness. And this just reinforces why I think that that working is the smartest thing I can do for myself. When we traveled to California to visit friends, I knew it would tire me. The time change and long [...]
Over at GL Hoffman’s blog, WhatWouldDadSay, author/speaker/guru guest, Seth Godin, explains why: “Don’t Get a Job Now”. Only Godin could come up with that direct a message. Even better, he’s got great points. If this guy doesn’t motivate you, who can? Speaking of chronic illness – do you think you should spend your time [...]
Avis had it right
Wouldn’t you know it would take “March Madness” to show us that coming from behind can make you a winner? Two guys at Wharton Behavioral Lab explored the idea that losing can lead to winning because of the strong motivational effects of being close to your goal (When Losing Leads to a Win). They applied [...]
Randy Duermyer writes, How Working At Home Found Me. This is a useful blog about working at home – check it out. People email me asking about starting their own home businesses as I did. They’re say they’re tired of showing up when they’re so sick. What does it take, they want to know. [...]
Are you thinking: it’s got to be easier to work for myself rather than dragging myself into work every day? A reader asked me to write about this: I would really like to see more profiles with people who own their own business like you. I am so demanding on myself, that when I am [...]
Have you talked to a virtual assistant today? If you live with chronic illness, you probably dream about two things — (other than becoming healthy): working for yourself and working virtually. Do you know about the Virtual Assistant? It’s a new career – – part of the “new marketplace” of solo entrepreneurs and web-based business. [...]
Have you asked for flex time because of invisible chronic illness symptoms – and not gotten it? Emily, who blogs on Finding Equilibrium, did so and when she couldn’t get what she needed, she quit her job to work on her own in a virtual capacity. That was a big move for her. She regretted [...]
Last February, I posted a survey to find out what more about your concerns. This is what I learned from your responses: 2/3 or 66% worry about staying employed in the future 1/3 or 33% worry about finding employment 1/4 or 25% worry about advancing in their current job Does that sound like you? I [...]
