Archive for the 'Working with chronic illness' Category
Employee with chronic illness?
The other evening, we were out with friends and discussing some of the people we all know who are experiencing health issues – how they were managing and how it had changed lives. Bobby looked thoughtful. He said that one of the guys in the group of 50 he manages, (I’ll call him P), has [...]
Are you aching to write?
I saw the book title, “What Is It and How Did I Get It? Early Stage Chronic Kidney Disease “ by Gail Rae on Twitter (do we follow each other there? – I’m @WorkWithIllness) and thought her story might spark the creative juices in some readers. ROSALIND: What made you decide to write on [...]
Tools that change your world
This month’s Career Collective Topic is Social media – how to use it in a job search, how to get started, do’s and don’ts. As always, my fellow bloggers have tips and ideas that are worth your time. Scroll down to see their contributions and click on the link to read it on the [...]
Why I write
Why do I write these posts? It’s time consuming and there’s the pressure to post consistently to keep readers engaged. Every so often, someone asks me why I do it — and every so often I ask myself. After all when you have limited energy, you have to be strategic and use it wisely. Isn’t [...]
Periodically, I get approached by others to write a guest blog. I think this piece, written by Mariana Ashley, is really valuable. I hope you do, too. I’ve known my friend Phil for almost seven years. When I first met him, I remember thinking he was such a walking art student cliché with his messy hair, five [...]
Is this Duo Doable?
Recently I was asked: Do you really believe that continuing to work is really harder when you live with a chronic illness? I answered, Yes, naturally. Soon after, several times during our call, a client asked if other people struggle as she does at working with an illness. That’s when I realized that my knee [...]
Is career change for you?
Although I focus on the issues people with chronic illness face, healthy people face many of the same issues. And everyone can benefit from the expertise and insights of my fellow career collective bloggers. Scroll down to read what my fellow bloggers have included in this month’s topic: “Best advice for career changers“. At a [...]
How do you adjust to new normal?
Following several performance cancellations, James Levine, maestro conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, is “…looking very carefully at his work schedule to stay healthier.” . I wish him luck with that. Maestro Levine is 67 years old and has survived two bouts with cancer. In the past few [...]
Sue (my client, name and details changed) was having a bad time in a crohn’s disease “flare”. For the first time, she couldn’t get to work reliably. Luckily, she had a job that could be done “virtually” and company policy allowed this. After a a few weeks of struggling to get to the office, she [...]
This month’s Career Blogging Collective Topic is: Job hunting rules to break. To read what the other bloggers have to say, scroll down. I wasn’t sure about this. It’s not as if there are many “job hunting” rules in the chronic illness world. But as I got started, I realized that over the years, [...]
