Annie in wonderland

 In deciding that I wanted to go back to some level of paid work, I am working on some basic skills. As I have been out of the workforce for some time, I have done some casual work but it’s not enough to have on my resume and it does show me what I hadn’t realized about working when you have a disability and a chronic illness and I now know why there is so many of us in the online world as content creators. It’s that we can work at our own pace. One thing I hadn’t considered is, emotional intelligence at work as I am completely retaining as I can’t stand for long periods so I need an industry where I am not standing all the time. Sleeping through the night is still a challenge for me as  I have seizure-related events called Parasomnias and I get up to eat or drink throughout the night, leading to poor quality sleep, so it's again before I even put a resume together I am looking at the skills I need to be work ready. So that to me is an ongoing list of emotional intellige...

 This seems to be a topic I constantly come back to as it is the backbone of the NDIS, and I am updating the blog as I learn more about support and I am not learning about it from a book or other “academic” sources. I am living it. So I am judging it by my own lived experience and this seems to be a good thing due to the fact that there is a definite difference between good and bad support and to go even further good and bad support workers. To put it in perspective basically those who understand the assignment at a deep level and for those who it is just a job, I see that some people have a unique combination of both of these, being that they understand the job is more than taking people out for coffees and are able to bog in and get the hard yards done so getting the house work done, getting a person into a good routine, keeping them in touch with family, friends and helping them to navigate these relationships with others and in a respectful ways. We also see that the genera...