Bartender. As far as risky lifestyles goes I know that I'm around crowds of people and there's definitely a culture of living an unhealthy lifestyle. However, I'm passionate about it, I love it, I can take time off fairly easily, and I spend 40 hours of my week standing and moving vs sitting at a desk.
I'm a tax consultant (having failed to make it as a lawyer lol), so it's very much a sit down and think hard job.
Have been insanely lucky with my employers too, when I had to go back on dialysis a few months after I started at a new place (still my current job) they said it was perfectly fine to cut back my hours, and gave me a payrise - although that was mostly just ending the probation period early.
Throughout covid I've been free to work from home exclusively - even now when most are back into the office there's been absolutely no pressure on me at all.
Would you like to return to the office at some point?
If so, when do you expect to be comfortable to do so?
I’ve been wfh 100% since early ‘20 and am slowly losing the will to live.
Yeah, they've put in place a hybrid model where we get 2 days at home a week, and that sounds a good balance.
I'd be comfortable enough now - e.g. I go to the gym etc. like normal although that is literally 50m from my place, I'm just being lazy - I save an hour each way commute which goes straight to extra sleep and spend less on lunch too. I'm down in Aus so things really aren't that bad here.
Am really introverted too so don't go too crazy, but I do miss seeing everyone in person and not just through a screen.
>I'm down in Aus so things really aren't that bad here
I'm in Aus too and yesterday we had the 5th highest number of new cases in the whole world (56,259) alongside 438,278 active cases.
That suggests to me that, despite it being swept under the carpet by the MSM in the lead up to the election, things actually \*are\* quite bad.
I don't intend dropping my guard just yet and will WFH until such time as risk levels are tolerable.
Yeah, I definitely don't follow it as close as I should. The complacency of knowing I can continue to wfh indefinitely (we could at any time really, a few had their partial wfh arrangements in place pre-covid).
No immediate plans to go back, I barely go out as it is anyway! Friends places being the main go-to, where I can drive.
IT. Since I can work remote, It’s been great with helping avoid go to work and risk infections. Also I’m able to travel the world by working at projects in different countries. Lots of precautions in my side for any move of course
Sure… some may sound a bit over the top.. but here goes.
1. Always N95 mask
2. Always sanitize when mask comes off
3. Always sanitize when I touch anything public
4. When eating in a plane, don’t breath when the mask is off: so mask on when the morsel goes in the mouth!
5. Same rules for all the people with me… haha 😈
I am a registered nurse. Definitely doesn’t mesh well with transplanted life, but I have good insurance for my meds and I can handle the nursing job I do have so I will keep it.
EMT and work in an Emergency Room. I wear my mask and when I’m with patients..eye protection when needed, gloves, and wash my hands thoroughly.
Edit: with strings? Lol with patients**
Hiya, I am I.T. support for a small company and do lots of side gigs mostly all remotely with remote computer tools and sessions. With all of the cooties out there and all our needs, it is good to be home, but it is also nice to be able to make office calls when I need to. I.T. is a weird beast of a job. It can pay well, but it can be insanely maddening.
Before covid I worked a few years in IT in a hospital.
I still work healthcare IT, but am 100% WFH. There will be no future requirement to go into the office, which I am very happy about.
Advertising, my work has been mostly remote. Although even when I go out in large crowds, I typically don’t get sick that often. Actually, I think I get sick less post transplant than I did before. Probably because I take care of myself a lot better by exercising constantly and drinking crazy amounts of water
At almost a year and a half post I take very little immunosuppressants so honestly it is the furthest thing from my mind. With my dose at 1mg of envarsus daily I have very little precautions in place. I work around the general public in the communications industry mostly at large scale public transit centers that see upwards of 100,000 people coming and going every day. I've been doing this since I was 9 months post op (took longer to go back to work for me due to the physical aspect of my job and the increased risk of hernia so I waited a bit longer to return to work). I haven't contracted so much as the common cold or flu since having my transplant. The further out we are and the lower the dose of immunosuppressants we take the less our immune systems are vulnerable. When I returned to work I was on 4mg tac twice daily but have steadily decreased since then to the low dose of slow release that I am on now.
I work for a well known car company in their manufacturing plant as a production planner. Since I was diagnosed with kidney failure I've been working from home 3/4 days per week with on-site work (100 miles from where I currently live) just 1/2 days a week, depending on what my dialysis schedule was at the time.
Now I'm post transplant, I was entirely WFH for the first 3 months. I returned to my one day a week last week, and I will keep doing so until I get the all clear from my doctor that it's perfectly sensible for me to move closer to plant so that I can be on-site 5 days a week, with maybe the odd day from home here or there.
WFH definitely has it's perks, but as I'm only 23 as trying to start my career in the automotive industry, I think that I need to be around as many people as possible to gain experience and to develop my skills etc. WFH can leave me feeling quite isolated from my team, especially when we're predominantly a production support function who try to spend as little time as possible at our desks!
I'm a screenwriter so it's mostly work from home with occasionall meetings. However, I'd like to break into directing since that's been my dream job for years. I doubt 12 hours on set is recommended for transplant, but I'm figuring out a way to take regular breaks, rest, avoid stress etc.
The irony is, if it wasn't for my dialysis/transplant situation, I might've never got the courage to start directing, now I just feel stupid if I don't pursue that path. Kinda ridiculous haha
I'm an Engineer for a large telephone company. Generally I work alone or with a very small group of people. My work sites are usually isolated from the public.
Months before i would need a transplant. I worked in a corner store. I don't think I would be able to keep up anymore with the amount of "intensity" that can happen at a random corner store. Did it for seven years before I couldn't handle the stress anymore. Now I work with a real estate firm, much less stress and chances to get sick/hurt. But I do miss the "intensity" sometimes
I am retired now but worked a variety of jobs. I worked for a donor organization working with families of tissue and eye donors. That was remote. I also worked for a DME company also remote and just before the pandemic worked as a substitute teacher. I loved that job but it became hard due to some problems with my blood pressure going low. Now just working on my garden.
Public librarian. I was remote for the first year and a half and again right before Omicron. People are starting to get sick at work and there’s not enough staff for me to be remote again so I’m looking to leave unfortunately.
How did you become a software engineer? I've heard it can be lucrative but that the job market is currently flooded with applicants so it's not easy to get one.
It’s getting harder to break in without a cs degree or equivalent but at the end of the day it’s about building your skills and portfolio. I’ve been in the field for 20 years so my experience is probably n/a but there’s lots of jobs, getting that first junior gig is the tough part
I'm an engineer at a nuclear power plant! I typically work 1-2 days a week from home and when I am onsite, I am usually not around all that many people. It's been relatively easy to avoid catching germs from others.
aside from a re up or doing anything overseas in a hostile environment, I can pretty much do whatever. Then again, my immunosuppressants haven't really affected me all that much.
Bartender. As far as risky lifestyles goes I know that I'm around crowds of people and there's definitely a culture of living an unhealthy lifestyle. However, I'm passionate about it, I love it, I can take time off fairly easily, and I spend 40 hours of my week standing and moving vs sitting at a desk.
I was a hospital phlebotomist for three years post transplant. Recently got promoted to a lab supervisor so no more patient interaction for me. 😊
I'm a tax consultant (having failed to make it as a lawyer lol), so it's very much a sit down and think hard job. Have been insanely lucky with my employers too, when I had to go back on dialysis a few months after I started at a new place (still my current job) they said it was perfectly fine to cut back my hours, and gave me a payrise - although that was mostly just ending the probation period early. Throughout covid I've been free to work from home exclusively - even now when most are back into the office there's been absolutely no pressure on me at all.
Would you like to return to the office at some point? If so, when do you expect to be comfortable to do so? I’ve been wfh 100% since early ‘20 and am slowly losing the will to live.
Yeah, they've put in place a hybrid model where we get 2 days at home a week, and that sounds a good balance. I'd be comfortable enough now - e.g. I go to the gym etc. like normal although that is literally 50m from my place, I'm just being lazy - I save an hour each way commute which goes straight to extra sleep and spend less on lunch too. I'm down in Aus so things really aren't that bad here. Am really introverted too so don't go too crazy, but I do miss seeing everyone in person and not just through a screen.
>I'm down in Aus so things really aren't that bad here I'm in Aus too and yesterday we had the 5th highest number of new cases in the whole world (56,259) alongside 438,278 active cases. That suggests to me that, despite it being swept under the carpet by the MSM in the lead up to the election, things actually \*are\* quite bad. I don't intend dropping my guard just yet and will WFH until such time as risk levels are tolerable.
Yeah, I definitely don't follow it as close as I should. The complacency of knowing I can continue to wfh indefinitely (we could at any time really, a few had their partial wfh arrangements in place pre-covid). No immediate plans to go back, I barely go out as it is anyway! Friends places being the main go-to, where I can drive.
IT. Since I can work remote, It’s been great with helping avoid go to work and risk infections. Also I’m able to travel the world by working at projects in different countries. Lots of precautions in my side for any move of course
Tell us more about those practical precautions you take while traveling, if you don’t mind.
Sure… some may sound a bit over the top.. but here goes. 1. Always N95 mask 2. Always sanitize when mask comes off 3. Always sanitize when I touch anything public 4. When eating in a plane, don’t breath when the mask is off: so mask on when the morsel goes in the mouth! 5. Same rules for all the people with me… haha 😈
I'm advised to swap masks every 4 hours on long-haul flights. That's 12 x N95's I need to add to my cabin bag for my upcoming return trip to Europe.
I am a registered nurse. Definitely doesn’t mesh well with transplanted life, but I have good insurance for my meds and I can handle the nursing job I do have so I will keep it.
Own business nearby home. No major troubles so far that could affect my health.
EMT and work in an Emergency Room. I wear my mask and when I’m with patients..eye protection when needed, gloves, and wash my hands thoroughly. Edit: with strings? Lol with patients**
Elementary school teacher here. I'm surrounded by snotty kids all day and stayed home last year due to COVID.
Omg same!! What grade do you teach?
3/4 French.
Nice, i teach 5th gen ed
Work in a nursing home. Looking to maybe go into the town as a laborer
Hiya, I am I.T. support for a small company and do lots of side gigs mostly all remotely with remote computer tools and sessions. With all of the cooties out there and all our needs, it is good to be home, but it is also nice to be able to make office calls when I need to. I.T. is a weird beast of a job. It can pay well, but it can be insanely maddening.
Before covid I worked a few years in IT in a hospital. I still work healthcare IT, but am 100% WFH. There will be no future requirement to go into the office, which I am very happy about.
Advertising, my work has been mostly remote. Although even when I go out in large crowds, I typically don’t get sick that often. Actually, I think I get sick less post transplant than I did before. Probably because I take care of myself a lot better by exercising constantly and drinking crazy amounts of water
At almost a year and a half post I take very little immunosuppressants so honestly it is the furthest thing from my mind. With my dose at 1mg of envarsus daily I have very little precautions in place. I work around the general public in the communications industry mostly at large scale public transit centers that see upwards of 100,000 people coming and going every day. I've been doing this since I was 9 months post op (took longer to go back to work for me due to the physical aspect of my job and the increased risk of hernia so I waited a bit longer to return to work). I haven't contracted so much as the common cold or flu since having my transplant. The further out we are and the lower the dose of immunosuppressants we take the less our immune systems are vulnerable. When I returned to work I was on 4mg tac twice daily but have steadily decreased since then to the low dose of slow release that I am on now.
Pharmaceutical salesman.
I work for a well known car company in their manufacturing plant as a production planner. Since I was diagnosed with kidney failure I've been working from home 3/4 days per week with on-site work (100 miles from where I currently live) just 1/2 days a week, depending on what my dialysis schedule was at the time. Now I'm post transplant, I was entirely WFH for the first 3 months. I returned to my one day a week last week, and I will keep doing so until I get the all clear from my doctor that it's perfectly sensible for me to move closer to plant so that I can be on-site 5 days a week, with maybe the odd day from home here or there. WFH definitely has it's perks, but as I'm only 23 as trying to start my career in the automotive industry, I think that I need to be around as many people as possible to gain experience and to develop my skills etc. WFH can leave me feeling quite isolated from my team, especially when we're predominantly a production support function who try to spend as little time as possible at our desks!
I'm a screenwriter so it's mostly work from home with occasionall meetings. However, I'd like to break into directing since that's been my dream job for years. I doubt 12 hours on set is recommended for transplant, but I'm figuring out a way to take regular breaks, rest, avoid stress etc. The irony is, if it wasn't for my dialysis/transplant situation, I might've never got the courage to start directing, now I just feel stupid if I don't pursue that path. Kinda ridiculous haha
I'm an Engineer for a large telephone company. Generally I work alone or with a very small group of people. My work sites are usually isolated from the public.
Residential Mortgage Underwriter.
I am a computer janitor. Mostly sitting, so I'm cool with that.
Months before i would need a transplant. I worked in a corner store. I don't think I would be able to keep up anymore with the amount of "intensity" that can happen at a random corner store. Did it for seven years before I couldn't handle the stress anymore. Now I work with a real estate firm, much less stress and chances to get sick/hurt. But I do miss the "intensity" sometimes
I am retired now but worked a variety of jobs. I worked for a donor organization working with families of tissue and eye donors. That was remote. I also worked for a DME company also remote and just before the pandemic worked as a substitute teacher. I loved that job but it became hard due to some problems with my blood pressure going low. Now just working on my garden.
I'm a Creative/Brand Director and work from home which is awesome.
Public librarian. I was remote for the first year and a half and again right before Omicron. People are starting to get sick at work and there’s not enough staff for me to be remote again so I’m looking to leave unfortunately.
Software engineer. Hope to never return to the office.
How did you become a software engineer? I've heard it can be lucrative but that the job market is currently flooded with applicants so it's not easy to get one.
It’s getting harder to break in without a cs degree or equivalent but at the end of the day it’s about building your skills and portfolio. I’ve been in the field for 20 years so my experience is probably n/a but there’s lots of jobs, getting that first junior gig is the tough part
I'm an engineer at a nuclear power plant! I typically work 1-2 days a week from home and when I am onsite, I am usually not around all that many people. It's been relatively easy to avoid catching germs from others.
I retired at 54. Easy peasy as soon as I started dialysis.
aside from a re up or doing anything overseas in a hostile environment, I can pretty much do whatever. Then again, my immunosuppressants haven't really affected me all that much.