Archive for the 'Working with chronic illness' Category
Phyl Rubin is talking but not about furniture. Phyl and Bernie own a New England furniture store chain. No, Phyl is talking about a secret she’s kept for 40 years: living with multiple sclerosis.
40 years of silence? Why? She didn’t have to worry about losing her job or a demotion. Did she think it would [...]
Chronic illness, complicated as it is, leaves many searching for a simple answer.
Lately, a tantalizing headline has gotten much press in the social media ‘disease’ community (yes, I’m on twitter and you can tweet me @WorkWithIllness):
“Exercise can Quiet Anxiety that Comes With Illness”.
Help me, please. What’s the news here? That people who live with [...]
Finding opportunity in quicksand
Being a career collective blogger gives me a monthly reminder that people living with illness face the same issues as healthy people. This month’s questions are (you can find links to my fellow blogger posts at the end of this article):
What do you do when you’re really, really, really discouraged about your unsuccessful job search?
How [...]
After many hours spent filling out forms and dotting my ” i’s”, I’ve been awarded a contract as a vendor for the Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work program.
I tend to do poorly with forms and details (just ask my husband!) and I knew it would be torture. Yet another example of the devil is [...]
If you live with chronic illness, you’ve probably realized that:
Symptoms can come and go when you least expect it
The intensity and how it impacts you can vary
This can wreck havoc on your job
How do you explain the changes? Yesterday you were able to get to work and do your job just fine. But today you’ve [...]
This weekend, while preparing our taxes, my husband mentioned that he’d been paying a credit card expense. It was a small monthly fee and he’d assumed it was a business expense that I’d mistakenly put on our personal charge card. The unfortunate truth is, it’s not unusual that I make such mistakes.
But I didn’t recognize [...]
Living with chronic illness can leave even the toughest person feeling vulnerable. You just wish that other people could “get it”, don’t you?
I know from personal experience how hard this is in a marriage (How a Marriage Survives When One Person Gets Sick, MORE Magazine) . And marriage is all about the relationship, where two [...]
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 [...]
A reporter was interviewing me about chronic illness and working. She was very surprised when I said, “The single most important factor that helps a chronically illl person continue to work is to work in a flexible environment.”
She asked me what “evidence” I have to support this. (Have you noticed how popular that word [...]
Are you living by a coin toss?
At the end of each year, I take a few days off to develop my business plan for 2010. Why do this?
Because it lets me take charge even if I can’t control the outcomes. (Funny- it’s a good way to life when you’ve got chronic illness.)
Are you being proactive in living your life? What might [...]
