I'm allergic to work!

[elspeth]

I've mentioned before in various posts that I've been going to my doctor over the last few weeks and he's been testing me for asthma... I got a diagnosis yesterday and it really amuses me!

I'm not asthmatic, I have officially normal lungs - but I am allergic to paint fumes, so considering one of the offices I work from backs onto an industrial garage where, among other things, the mechanics are currently repainting a fleet of coaches and I can't keep away from the fumes - I'm now officially allergic to my workplace! The nurse laughed at me when I cheered, I've no idea why...

Needless to say I'm now looking for another job...

[rach n bach]

 

This is the kind of "problem" you hate to love...

RnB

[pianistimo]

your health is worth much more than your current job.

[cmg]

your health is worth much more than your current job.

Not mine.  I have a mortgage, health insurance, liability insurance, office rental, malpractice insurance, car payments, car insurance, dental bills, food bills, piano technician bills, hookers, etc.

[cmg]

. . . Metropolitan opera subscription, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center chamber music subscriptions, cottage rental for vacation in May, annual 10 per cent income tithe to the Church of Satan . . .

[mad_max2024]

I'm a pharmacist and I once had a client that was severely allergic to shellfish yet said she worked at a shellfish restaurant.
She had severe burns all over her hands and arms that itched like hell

I told her gloves and creams would only get her so far and unless she looked for a new job she would eventually run into serious trouble.

I really doubt she will listen...
Stopped caring long ago... I just let people do whatever they want now...

[soliloquy]

hookers

cottage rental for vacation in May

Let's do something

[cmg]

Let's do something

The island of Kaua'i.  You're in charge of sunblock and booze.  Aloha spirit mandatory.  Be there or be square. 

Pierre Boulez, however, is soooo totally not invited.     Better suggestion:  the esteemed composer, Alistair Hinton.  Oh, yeah, and let's ask "ada" to drop by!  She's only about 10 hours away by air and has "total fun zone" stamped on her passport.  (She can't bring Rupert Murdoch, though.  I've never forgiven him for hiring Judith Regan, among a million other things.)

[ahinton]

Pierre Boulez, however, is soooo totally not invited.

Poor Pierre Boulez!

  Better suggestion:  the esteemed composer, Alistair Hinton.

Thank you very much for the kind invitation.

Oh, yeah, and let's ask "ada" to drop by!  She's only about 10 hours away by air and has "total fun zone" stamped on her passport.

Have you seen her passport, then?

(She can't bring Rupert Murdoch, though.  I've never forgiven him for hiring Judith Regan, among a million other things.)

But doesn't Rupert Murdoch own the island already? The Hawaiian one that you mention, that is - not Australia (or maybe even both - who knows?)...

Best,

Alistair

[Bob]

Isn't your employer responsible for cleaning up the air (air purifier) if it's got chemicals in it?

[elspeth]

We have got air con - although exactly where the conditioned air comes from considering there's the garage on one side and the motorway on the other is another matter... and I think they'd probably get past the legalities as everyone else in the office (who isn't allergic) is fine and I couldn't prove - and don't think - that working here has caused the allergy, merely set it off. It's a bit of a sticky point. But, I have reported it so I've done my bit, and in the meantime they're seeing if they can transfer me to another site, without a garage. But I'm job-hunting anyway!

[rc]

Are you going to look for a similar job or try something different?

My job has a few conflicts with learning piano - if I work too much my fingertips crack which takes a while to heal and means I have to play with a bandaid on my fingertip.  I can avoid damaging myself so long as I'm careful, but I still can't quite avoid the cracked fingers.

OTOH, my work is great for upper body strength.  Tired arms or a stiff back isn't something I experience much.

[thalbergmad]

Not mine.  I have a mortgage, health insurance, liability insurance, office rental, malpractice insurance, car payments, car insurance, dental bills, food bills, piano technician bills, hookers, etc.

You are lucky, I got 6 banjo's to support.

Thal

[ahinton]

You are lucky, I got 6 banjo's to support.

Thal

And a redundant apostrophe, too, it would seem (bet that's the straw that breaks the camel's bank...)

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

i hear they now charge to climb mt blanc, too.  or was that recinded.  seems it should be the other way around.  you know, pay the climbers.  'here's an experiment for you.  try to climb this mountain without a rock falling on your head.'  btw, you can attach a headlight quite easily to a helmet.  much harder to headbands.  and if you lose your headlight - then what?  i mean, when it gets dark and your clamoring for where to put your feet.

[elspeth]

I'm not really sure about what job to go for next. The job it'd be replacing is reasonably well paid, as secure as any job is these days, and I happen to be good at it. On the other hand... I've been doing it three years now and that seems to be about as long as my attention span lasts in any given job - theatre excepted which I've been doing for years and still adore. I quite fancy a change of direction... but unfortunately it could do with being a pretty quick change and I don't know what I want to change to. So I'll probably stay in the same industry for now in order to get a new job asap... but if this hadn't come up I'd probably have got itchy feet and left anyway this year. Hmm, choices!