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Getting out from under chronic
This week’s post is part of the Monthly Career Collective Bloggers. This month’s topic is: How to Heat Up Your Job Search. Scroll down to see what my fellow writer’s suggest!
Is being unemployed feeling like a chronic condition? Chronic — it’s not sexy, exciting or fun. Worse, chronic means it’s not changing and won’t go [...]
Lessons from your grandparents
Being young and living with a chronic illness – – whether it’s multiple sclerosis, ulcerative colitis, diabetes, cancer, you name it – means that you can have a lot more in common with your grandparents than your friends. At age 30, I could relate too easily to my 80 year old grandmother’s complaints about her [...]
You know that moment when the lightbulb goes on ? I know, too often it feels like it’s getting darker, not lighter (LOL).
But reading Laurie Edwards, achronicdose, describe a recent bout with illness (On Work and Chronic Illness), was such an “ah hah!“ moment.
In my zeal to encourage people to keep working [...]
There was a problem with the blog and I am resending yesterday’s email. My sincere apologies for sending two emails to subscribers — in a row!
Are you stuck on ONE ISSUE that keeps you up at night?
One issue, caused by chronic illness,
that keeps you from work success?
Working with chronic illness is difficult . . . [...]
Are you delegating enough?
Pain or fatigue, common symptoms when you live with a chronic illness, can make working difficult or nearly impossible.
My clients living with chronic illness have held jobs from one end of the employment spectrum to the other — people who work in call centers, secretaries, truckers, self employed, not employed but looking, teachers, lawyers, [...]
Sometimes you make mistakes
One of the tenets of blogging is to use real examples so people can see your experience and relate to what you’re saying. The thinking being that’s what brings and keeps readers. But there’s a fine line between using real life examples and lifting someone’s story. And I stepped over the line [...]
Plans can help you unstuck
Are you stuck when you think about getting a job? Because, when you do, it seems as if chronic illness shuts every door?
Or maybe you’re wondering if you should stay at your job or think about something else? But chronic illness makes it all seem too complicated?
While working with a client recently, a light bulb went off around [...]
For today’s post, I interviewed Diana Lee, Somebody Heal Me: The Musings of a Chronic Migraineur. Diana’s story of living with pain is typical for many of us who have had life altering chronic illness. She’s taken a highly creative and productive path to address it.
FYI: This month’s headache and migraine carnival hosted [...]
Are you using social media?
(I’m posting late this week because I’ve been struggling with wordpress to get an image in – sometimes this system just locks things out. So frustrating.)
You heard it here first: the meteoric rise of social media is the best breakthrough for working people with chronic illness since … the internet. It saves you time and [...]
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 know it’s true. I’ve been [...]
