This year, the UN's focus is on "decent work for persons with disabilities".
People with CFS/fibromyalgia want to work, but often are not able to work under standard office conditions. You may need to work lying down, or have instant access to a restroom (not one that's a hundred feet away or requires you to wait your turn), or need to take naps. Or, as happened to me repeatedly, some symptom may become obvious during interviews, leading interviewers to question whether you can do the job as well as someone who doesn't have obvious symptoms, and, eventually, they choose to hire the healthy person instead.
Here are some legitimate work-at-home options for those of you who aren't inclined to become self-employed as I did.
• Alpine Access: A call center company that uses home-based customer service representatives to handle calls for a variety of companies, including J. Crew and 1-800-Flowers.
• Arise: Matches work-from-home agents with open positions in sales, technical support and customer service.
• Convergys: Hires home-based agents to serve as customer service, technical assistance or sales agents for clients.
• Liveops: Customer service calls for a variety of major corporations are routed through this center and answered by people who work from home.
• Staffcentrix: Finds virtual assistants who perform a variety of administrative and other business tasks from their home for CEOs and other clients.
• VirtuServe: A call center that hires home agents for various services, such as telemarketing, help desk support and survey research.
• VIPdesk: Home-based concierge and customer service agents are hired to work with various companies.
• West Corporation: Finds customer service agents based out of their homes for a variety of industries, including pharmaceutical, retail and hospitality.
Use search terms on job boards like "home office," "telecommute" and "work from home."
Get in touch with your State Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, and see whether they can be persuaded to buy you whatever equipment you need to work at home: a newer computer with whatever programs are required for employment, dictation equipment, fax, second phone line, high-speed internet, etc.
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