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A couple of months ago I met a young woman at a party. She’d been out on disability for most of the year, and was slowly healing from surgery for something I couldn’t even wrap my mind around. She was still feeling quite tender, but was out with her husband to celebrate the birthday of [...]
Are you STUCK when you think about the next job — now that you’re living with an invisible chronic illness? Then tune in to my radio seminar to get ideas about what you can do. Assess Yourself: Find the Job You Desire and Can Do Despite Limitations Tuesday Sept. 9 at 9:00a.m PT /11:00a.m.CT/12:00noon ET [...]
Last February, I posted a survey to find out more about the concerns of people, like you, living with chronic illness and working (or wanting to work). This is what I learned. Of those who responded: 2/3 or 66% worry about staying employed in the future 1/3 or 33% worry about finding employment 1/4 or [...]
My complimentary copies of our book, Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working Girlfriend! came today. (Unfortunately, Joan’s didn’t and she needs some for a speech she’s making next week so we’re scrambling.) It’s almost (but not quite) as exciting as coming home from the hospital with a newborn! The publisher gives us some free [...]
Have you heard about The Last Lecture? I had but because it sounded like another one of those “media” hypes — you know the ones where some guy gets his “Andy Warhol 10 seconds (or was it minutes …) of fame” — I ignored it. But when a client sent me the links to Pausch’s [...]
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You have to read my new report, Perspective. I’m quite proud of it because it’s different from anything I’ve written before. It’s a free download on my website. And, with that, you’ll get a free subscription to my new monthly eNewsletter, Words of Wisdom, the Chronic Illness at Work Newsletter. It’s actually the best post [...]
Living with chronic illness means living with the unpredictable — on so many fronts. My client emailed me with a distress signal: her boss told her that she had to come into work more frequently than she’d been doing. Six months earlier, she’d negotiated working from home two days a week – and she could [...]
Networking and building relationships with others, whether you work for a company or run your own business, is pretty darn important for long-term success. A viable business is built on relationships. Career growth and longevity is too. However, when you are living with in a fluctuating state of health, it’s not always possible to get [...]
My daughter, Lucy, 23, has been teaching in an urban school for two years. She plans to go to Law School in a year. Not to practice law but because she thinks it will give her the credentials she’ll need to do what she wants to do. And there’s where the story stops. She’s not [...]
Because I work from home and do 98% of my work on the telephone with the support of email communications, I spend a lot of time on my computer. A few weeks ago I was suddenly overwhelmed. I review marketing plans for people in my Get Clients Now! tele-class programs. With 2 programs running, I [...]
