Archive for the 'Working with chronic illness' Category
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This is a guest post written by Carolyn Matheson, MCC , President of PeopleWorkBest.com
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out”. Robert Collier
Continuing to working with cancer or a chronic illness is very important for many people.
It is one of the few parts [...]
Do you tell yourself your chronic illness would be more manageable if you had more control over the rest of your life?
Do you believe that if you could find a job, influence your boss or be more effective at work, you’d feel better?
Yet, do you feel powerless to take action, worried it might not be [...]
Can You Make Work Work For You?
Even when the economy was thriving and there were more jobs than workers (remember those days?), most people described work as stressful. It meant fewer people doing more work, tighter deadlines. And worst of all, blurry lines between time at work and personal life.
The demands have only gotten worse in this recession.
A young woman, in [...]
If chronic illness impacts your work life, a job interview can feel like a massive hurdle you can’t climb over. But I’ve seen how much easier this becomes when you normalize your situation.
What’s normal about chronic illness you ask? Nothing, really. But isn’t there more to you than just this illness? Here are two examples [...]
I’ve noticed a trend. Over the past few years, the number of inquiries that I get from people looking for help with their career has increased. But until recently the mix was pretty equal between the currently employed and unemployed.
Over the past year, the requests I get are overwhelmingly from the unemployed. I’m wondering: what’s [...]
A new client, I’ll call her Judy, is in the 3rd “flare” of Hashimoto’s disease in 5 years. She told me that she learned about me when a friend forwarded my article, 5 Things I Want You to Know About Working While Living with Chronic Illness. Judy told me in our initial conversation that she [...]
What follows is an interview of Therese Borchard, blogger and author of Beyond Blue. This interview was done by Christina Gombar.
Therese Borchard struggled with manic depression during college, earned a master’s degree and established a stellar career in journalism and book publishing. But the hormonal shifts of motherhood, a geographic move, as [...]
Do you harbor deep envy for those who work at home? Do you think all your problems would be solved because now you could take care of your health and still work?
Easy to understand. I work from home and I can tell you that it does make it easier to navigate — in some ways. [...]
This month’s career collective bloggers question is: “What should job seekers do now to prepare for interviews?” Scroll down for thoughtful ideas and useful tips from my fellow bloggers.
MY FANTASY: With every chronic illness diagnosis comes a toolkit filled with all you need to prepare for the unpredictable (more on this in my [...]
Living with chronic illness can make life unpredictable – and unnerving. I’ve been at this for 30 years and I’m still surprised by how it can throw me.
We have season tickets to the Boston Lyric Opera. I love the idea of these things but the reality is that I’m physically challenged. A few months ago, [...]
