How to think about light reactions to buildings when looking for a job?

While I am happy for you for getting the interviews, I'm sorry for the challenges you face. I don't live with a mold infection, but I do live in the "upper South" and we have a ton of mold everywhere. People still have no clue how sick it can make people.

Is it possible for you to be "more aggressive" with the mold treatments to help you get to a better place so that you aren't quite so reactive? That would be really helpful, I would think - but I'm just throwing out an idea - as I said, I don't live with a mold infection, so I don't know.

I do wish you the best of luck in finding the job that suits your needs best.

Deep Sleep,

As you probably know, I face the same challenges.

“I can't go around and be afraid of buildings all the time.”
- I am sure that’s what observers think. If only it was that simple. Fear isn’t the problem. Mold/mycotoxin exposure is the problem, and the results can be devastating, especially when they occur repeatedly. Tolerance levels go way down. Pain, reactivity, and psych symptoms go way up. Endurance drops. Fatigue and brain fog worsen. Then it takes longer to recover.

If you were living in a mold safe environment, which you’re not if I recall correctly, then your ideal setup would be working from home.

Do you have an option of meeting up with clients at alternative locations of your choice - a park, a restaurant with outdoor seating, or a building that you feel good in?

Is traveling a requirement, or is it optional? Do you have to get on a plane? If so, have you traveled by plane since being affected by mold and chemicals? How did it affect you?

I want to live fully and not have to be avoiding things for fear of mold is what I mean by my comment. Of course, I wouldn’t want to live or work where there is a lot of mold, but my current sensitivity is a problem and something that I have to fix.

My home is now “fine” and we don’t notice any issues anymore after there were problems in an apartment in the same house. Working from home would work as it was I have been doing mostly since Covid started, but it's not a life that I want to have.

In general, I'm expected to be there full-time or hybrid in the beginning and then switch to hybrid. So for the interview on Monday, I will meet them at their office which hopefully works well. I then start working there but I might then later be sent to a customer for 6 months and have no idea how that situation will be.
The whole thing with being somewhere 100 %, in the beginning, is going to be an issue also and I have to really cut down on all treatment and flushing of toxins. I can't be going to the bathroom a lot where it would smell not that great because of the flushing of toxins……..

By travel, I meant more for private travel. Going somewhere and not knowing how our place will be. But we have to get stronger until we do that often and will have to contact them and check before I guess. Flights have in general not been a problem. I would not take any job that has a lot of travel at the moment and turned down an interview earlier because of that.

Garzie said...

similarly with mold - it seems logical that if you find yourself barely recovering from the last exposure before being exposed again - then the result is likely to be unsustainable in the long term.

i guess only you can gauge what's tolerable before this happens

good luck with the job hunt !

That seems reasonable. The place I was on yesterday was amazing in many ways, but there is definitely a risk of going somewhere and just hoping that my body adjusts and doesn’t have any problems from it soon.
Thanks for the good wishes.