Lots of knitting. Lots and lots of knitting. (If you’re on Ravelry, you can see my finished projects.) My hands ache from the knitting, particularly the left because I knit Continental. I think I may have to learn to knit English just to swap off on occasion. We’ve been going out to hear more live […]
The Benefits of Maturity
I’m an Older Woman. My 50th birthday is fast approaching. No matter what I do with my résumé, it is pretty obvious that I’m not a millennial. That is who is truly desired, it seems, by the tech startups that I prefer to work with. Oh, the job postings don’t come out and say that they […]
Big Update
Well, I owe you all an apology. This blog has been abandoned for four years, and a lot has happened in that time. Katie is married, about to finish college, and expecting her first child! I went back to work in 2013! I work from home, but I work full time doing technical support for Apple, Inc. as […]
Workshop Today
So today I attended a vocational rehabilitation workshop called Oasis. I don’t recall what that stands for, but they wanted to identify my interests, aptitudes, and abilities to help me go back to work. Yes, that’s what I’m aiming towards. It’s a slow process, though. They warned us yesterday that it will take three months […]
Donating My Time
Plinky asked, “Do you volunteer?” Not at the moment, unfortunately :-( I have in the past, with an online safety group, Girl Scouts, homeschooling groups, Freecycle, and other organizations. I’m looking for something to do again, since I find myself with time on my hands and a bit more energy than I had for a while. […]
Online Job Hunt — Heard of this place?
Yes, yes—I promise this is the last post for now. Probably for the weekend, but at least for a few hours! I continue to hope to find some kind of work that I can do from home despite my uncooperative body. Of course, most listings for “work at home” and “telecommute” jobs are complete rip-offs. I […]
Shouldn’t Be This Tired
The girl had an appointment at the doctor’s office today, then we had to go to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta to have an EKG and lab work done–just part of the normal monitoring for some of her meds. And that’s all we did today, other than trying to pick up my meds (which weren’t ready) […]
Review: Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease
I read Women, Work and Autoimmune Disease by Rosalind Joffe and Joan Friedlander a few months back, but for some reason, my review on Amazon took a while to show up, and I didn’t think to keep a copy for myself. It seems to finally be there now, so I’ll put it here, too (slightly […]
Semester Is Past the Half-way Point!
And so far, I’ve only lost one point in my Project Management class, none in the other class. That was due to a stupid mousing error—bad hands! Oh well, if that’s all my hands cost me this semester, I’ll be happy. The career course required us to do “long-term career planning” this week. I don’t know […]
Working?
I’m working on a new podcast episode. Really! And I’d like very much to hear from you. Are you working? Have you had to change anything about work since developing a chronic illness? Have any of you gone back to work after taking some time off? Is anybody willing to be interviewed? Thanks!