Archive for the 'Working with chronic illness' Category
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, [...]
Does this sound like you? Living with chronic illness and thinking about changing your career. But haven’t a clue how or where to start. Then my article, “Career planning when you live with chronic illness”, is what you need to get started. ( No surprise here – I outline a strategic approach.) It’s published in [...]
Managing health takes up time
Have you noticed how big chunks of time, weeks and even months, become a blur because of chronic illness? It’s easy to see how living with pain, severe fatigue or body parts that don’t work is draining. Even healthy people can understand that. But there’s another aspect of living this life that gets overlooked [...]
This month’s Career Collective Blog Posts topic is: Things job seekers should keep an eye on in 2011. My fellow bloggers (scroll down for those links) share insights into trends and forecasts and I’m focusing on basics. We have an expression in New England: Don’t like the weather? Wait a minute and it’ll change. As [...]
Bullies are not news. Nor is it news that children or adults get bullied. But, of course, now that it looks like this behavior can lead to suicide, those in charge feel moved to legislate it. Who are they kidding? Do they really think that’s the way to change behavior? Now I found this interesting: [...]
This month’s CareerCollective Blogging Topic is: “How to avoid scary career mistakes”. As always, I’m writing through the lens of living with chronic illness and it’s impact on your career. But these ideas apply to healthy folks , too. Be sure to scroll down for the list of the other bloggers’ posts – there’s a [...]
Are you thinking: Work=Stress=Worse Health? If you’re saying yes, you’re not alone. In fact, I’ve found that not only people with chronic illness think this, many “healthy” people think it, too. The reality is that working when you’re unwell is difficult. Even more so when you’re symptomatic with unpredictable, waxing and waning illness. It’s no [...]
