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Posted 1/17/2014 9:18 PM (GMT 0)
I'm a 25 year old student (having restarted university several times) and feeling a bit disillusioned about my future. I have this dream to live in a tropical place with my girlfriend, maybe running a restaurant. However, I'm not sure I will be able to finish uni, let alone do that or have a normal job because of UC flares. I'm going about 4 times or so a day at the moment, but finding uni life difficult. I dunno how I will cope in a 9 to 5 job.

I was just wondering what jobs people with UC have and how they cope and how their bosses react?

Thanks!
Posted 1/17/2014 9:30 PM (GMT 0)
I did medical research for years. As long as I got my work done, nobody said anything to me. Now, I am a biology lab manager at the local university. All of my co-workers and all of my boss' know about my UC and they are all very supportive. I have 2 staff that work for me, and they both cover for me when I am sick, just like I cover for them when they are sick or want to go on vacation. I have been out of work for a week feeling lousy and the only e-mail I have gotten is to take my time and feel better. hang in there, there are good people out there that will value you and your work. You just have to find them.
Posted 1/17/2014 10:33 PM (GMT 0)

lemonhead said...
I did medical research for years. As long as I got my work done, nobody said anything to me. Now, I am a biology lab manager at the local university. All of my co-workers and all of my boss' know about my UC and they are all very supportive. I have 2 staff that work for me, and they both cover for me when I am sick, just like I cover for them when they are sick or want to go on vacation. I have been out of work for a week feeling lousy and the only e-mail I have gotten is to take my time and feel better. hang in there, there are good people out there that will value you and your work. You just have to find them.


Nice to know people are supportive of you so that gives me some hope! I suppose (not bringing down your profession in any way), research based work allows you to be less hands on and maybe even work from home?
Posted 1/17/2014 11:26 PM (GMT 0)
None of my jobs have I been able to work from home. Cells to feed, experiments to run. But after I worked there for a while, I let my boss' know what is going on with my health, and they (luckily for me) have been very supportive. My least supportive boss, ironically, his son had Crohns.
Posted 1/18/2014 2:16 AM (GMT 0)
I've only missed work when I was in the hospital. Otherwise my job isn't that much of a struggle. My boss knows I'm 'sick' and I qualify for FMLA, so I have some protection there. I don't know anything else. I was working full time when I got colitis. I guess you just get to be an expert at communal restrooms ;-)

I work in the financial industry. I mostly have a desk job, attend a lot of meetings, and train other employees individually or in groups.
Posted 1/18/2014 2:18 AM (GMT 0)
I was a program manager for a human services agency. My employers were good about allowing me to flex my hours as needed, and on infrequent occasions I did have to work from home. The vast majority of days I worked at my office, even when I had to run to the bathroom every hour or so.
Posted 1/18/2014 2:52 AM (GMT 0)
I'm a project manager, it involves mostly working in the office but often I visit location to monitor construction phase. I also attend a lot of meetings. I have capability of working from home for a few days if things get really rough. Everyone has been really understanding of my issues.
Posted 1/18/2014 3:00 AM (GMT 0)
I work at a small drop-in center for the mentally ill. My main problem has come from the fact that we only have 3 employees, so calling in (even with a doctors note) was tough cuz my boss was a jerk about it. And fairly high strung sob he'd make the other coworkers life hell with his freaking out.

What else sucks is that I do not have FMLA access because our location has so few employees. I've spent all my vacation and sick pay for my year. 4 more months until a get a few of each again.
I HAVE to have doctors notes to miss any work unless its scheduled ahead of time.

But at work I have access and freedom to bathroom pretty well. Even if im in the middle of leading an activity I can usually stop and run. I've only not made it once. :/
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