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Keep filling the bank
Chronic illness, unlike acute illness, isn’t static. It continues to reverberate.
I’ve been writing about Maestro James Levine’s (my post on grieving) cancer and the back injury/surgeries that have kept him from performing.
As it turns out, the man he replaced at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, will not be at the podium at Tanglewood this [...]
Is the health care reform bill a step toward ensuring that anyone living with chronic illness will receive “adequate” medical treatment?
Or is it just more help for the healthy?
I don’t have the answer. But I’m delighted that in the increased attention on the burden that chronic illness places on individuals and society when the chronically [...]
Since hanging my shingle as a “chronic illness career coach”, the question I get asked most often is: “Should I disclose my illness when interviewing for a job?”
Naturally, as a coach, I have more questions than answers. But there is one guideline I’ve found is worth following:
If symptoms get in the way of doing [...]
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 of [...]
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 for [...]
When my friend, June, called about driving together to a dinner party an old friend had invited us to, I was surprised. I’d already told her we weren’t going because we were out of town. No, she said, I’d said that we were going. I was as sure I’d told her I wasn’t going as [...]
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 really [...]
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.
When [...]
