Chronically Self-Employed
Freelancing and Self-Employment With Chronic Illness
Freelancing can offer chronically ill workers more control and freedom, but it also shifts the work of finding clients, managing pay, and securing benefits onto you.
Work & Money
Employment, self-employment, workplace accessibility, benefits, insurance, finances, work identity, and redefining contribution beyond conventional productivity.
Work & Money
12 Job boards and resources for disabled and chronically ill workers
Disabled and chronically ill people like us are criminally underemployed in the U.S. These job boards and resources can help change that.
Work & Money
7 Self-management techniques for disabled and chronically ill workers
Work-life balance doesn't always fit chronic illness. These practical techniques can help you work with fluctuating capacity without treating your body like the problem.
Work & Money
I've been a full-timer for 3 months now. Here's how it's going.
It's time to look back on the first quarter of my first full-time job.
Bodies & Health
Disabled needs are human needs. Why is that so hard to remember?
I've never been so scared as I was when I became a salaried worker. I'd spent over ten years (my entire professional life) freelancing, first off and on, then full-time. I'd never had PTO, employer-provided insurance, or a boss outside of my
Work & Money
Surviving my first (ever) week of full-time work
Dear readers, I've had a long week, so please forgive this shorter update. I might be a bit less wordy for the next month or so as I focused on this professional transition. I've never had a full-time job before. In college, I was a
Work & Money
Who knew working on internalized ableism was a full-time job?
It took applying for a full-time job to realize how much ableism I've internalized over the years. For one, we freelancers are a proud fucking group. We like our freedom, we don't like having to work to someone else's schedule (ironic, I know)
Work & Money
That *recent* time I had to accept that I'm chronically ill
*TW/CW: suicidal thoughts* Yes, despite having C-PTSD, depression, and anxiety for over two decades and PTSD for ten and-a-half years, it's taken me this long to come to terms with my conditions. After nearly 6 years in therapy, I took an extended break when
Systems & Equity
Why don't teletherapy platforms talk about location-restricted therapy?
All I need is affordable, mobile, professional therapy I can access from anywhere. Is that so much to ask? In my last post, I talked about realizing how difficult it is to find therapy as a digital nomad in the US due to location-based licensing restrictions. Naïve me thought
Work & Money
What do you mean, I can't get therapy as a digital nomad?
I haven't seen a therapist for over a year (by choice). But thanks to US therapy licensing laws, I'm no longer allowed to. My partner and I left the States in December 2021 on our first-ever adventure as digital nomads. And though I did have