Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) and Career: a collection of ideas

Hands can do a lot

Hands can do a variety of different purposes.  Hands can welcome someone with a handshake, hold a door, write a story, type a story, play a computer game to save the cosmos from the evil alien invasion.  Hands can do a lot of stuff….when they are working.  People may have difficulties with their hands that may limit what a person can do.

One problem that may occur for people are Repetitive Wrist injuries (RSI).  Repetitive wrist injuries may make it difficult for people to do different things.

For myself

For myself, I had a case of Tendinitis many years ago for my wrists.  I found that doing many activities were difficult.  I am lucky that the wrists have for the most part recovered. I need to be aware of what I am doing and adjust my activities if I have to. If I spend to much time at a computer, I can go away from the computer and rest.

These are ideas that may help other people, just understand that each medical condition is different and the following ideas may not apply for you.  I am not a medical doctor.

A person with wrist problems may need to evaluate job positions by the physical activities involved in the job.  A person may have some job positions that may work physically and some job positions that do not work physically.  A person may risk having increased problems physically if they are in a job position that uses enough wrist activities that the wrist does not have enough time to heal.   The person physical condition could get worse.  If a person not careful, the physical condition can become worse each time you go off to work…the pain and money can be combined making it difficult.  You go off to work to make a living but the pain also increases.

YouTube Video

The problem I found is that it can be difficult to find out the physical requirements for job positions.  Sometime large organizations may list the physical requirements but sometimes the physical may not be listed.  Or the information is there but difficult to find.  For example, a YouTube video called:

YouTube Title: “What skills are essential for the Entry-Level Paralegal?”
YouTube Channel: Paralegal Career Mastermind
Published on October 18, 2020.”
The video talked about the importance of typing. (about 5:37 in the video).
Sometimes to consider if a person has difficulty with their wrists.

The following ideas may help people to find a career with wrist problems.
I hope the ideas are helpful.
If you have ideas that you think could be helpful, send them to me and I can look into adding an additional post.helpfulfeedback@yahoo.com

Interview

You may not be sure of a job position physically when looking at a job description.  You may still want to apply for the job and learn more about the job during a interview.  Sometimes during an interview, a person can ask additional questions at the end of the interview.  I have asked a question like “During a typical day, what would be the routine for this job?” Ideally, you want the potential employer to explain what the job activities of this job would be like.  What would be the typical routine people may have in this job? You may be able to gain information as to what the physical activities may be.  You may learn the routine of job that can help you evaluate the job.  If you learn you will be at a computer typing all day, then the job may not be for you.

Here are some career ideas that may work for you

(Type of job positions) Talking to people is the major work activity

Job position were talking to a person is the major work activity.
May be called by different names: some names may be

• Consulting, coach, advisor, consultant, trainer, facilitator, interviewer, instructor, guide, sales or something like that.

The talking to people is the “break” from the typing activity.
(Be careful of job position where you may be typing as you are talking; like customer service telephone positions)

Own your own business

You may be able to own your own business.
The advantage of owning your own business is that you can control how activities are done.

Here are some ideas, hope people find it helpful.

Thanks for reading.

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Phone Messages

Imagine that you are in the job search; and a potential employer has been impressed with your resume, cover letter, application and anything else you may have sent to your potential employer. Your potential employer decides to give you a phone call, you are not able to pick you the phone, so the phone call goes to voice mail and the potential employer hears the following possible responses:

• “Mailbox is currently full – not able to leave a message.”
• “Mailbox is currently not set up – not able to leave message.”
• “Hey you, where the party? Leave a message.”
• “Why are you bothering me, if you must leave a message then do so?”
• “You know what to do, so do it?”
• “Hey you, if you want to support my early retirement fund please leave message, I will call you back to give you details on how you can support my early retirement.”
• “This is Great Grand Glorious Genius, if you like to leave message you small being then do so?”
• “So, you decide to leave a message, why?”
• “Hello, this is space station A453546, did not get message, please leave message?”
• “Hello” (nothing else)
• “Welcome to untitled masterpiece.” (nothing else)”
• “Ok, finish the story, you are…” (nothing else)

(messages are created messages not actual messages)

Your voice mail message may determine if you hear back from potential employers.  Make sure your phone system able to accept voice-mail messages and make the voice mail message professional so that you do not miss on opportunity.

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Job position in different Internet locations may give more details about the job position

You found a job description on the Internet; you found all the details of the job right?  Well Maybe?

Sometimes when an organization is recruiting for a job position; that organization will post the job position on many different locations on the Internet; you may find many places where that job position is placed on the Internet

Sometimes if you find the job position on the different places on the Internet; you may find a job position will have more job details in one location rather than a job position at another location.  For example, where you might find a job position on a general job site and then find the same job position with more job details on a organization web site.  You then may be able to use these additional details to your advantage in your job search.

A job position may vary between different places; you may be able to find more details of a job position in different locations; if you find a job position on a general job web site; look at the organization web site to see if the same job positions may be listed with more details.

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Careers and Environmentally Friendly Companies

You are exploring different career options; and you want to work for an environmentally friendly company.  How do you search for an environmentally friendly company?

Here are some ways to find company information.

(a)       Google Search – You can do a search on Google where you can type in a company name and add the word “environment”.  You can search phrases like “environment impact” or “environment issues” or “environment record” or “environment sustainability: (or some other similar phrase).  You may obtain Google listing of web articles that will give information about the company and their impact on the environment.

(b)       For Public Companies the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR Search System – Public Companies are a particular type of company structure that allow companies to receive funding from the public.  Public Companies are often listed on financial market exchanges.  Public Companies have a requirement to create financial documents that describe their current financial condition. General public can then evaluate the financial records and evaluate a public company as an investment opportunity.  Public companies have to file their financial documents towards a federal government agency called The Security and Exchange Commission (https://www.sec.gov/). The Security and Exchange Commission has an EDGAR System (the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system) that allows a person to look for financial documents. EDGAR located on Security and Exchange Commission web site at https://www.sec.gov/edgar/about.  Public Companies may file a common financial document called an Annual Report. An Annual Report can give information on what the company has done in the prior year and what the company want to do in the future. An Annual Report called a 10-K filing in the EDGAR system. An Annual Report can give information on company views towards the environment.

(c) Look at the Company web site – you can look at the company web site to see what the company thinks about the environment

(d) Informational Interviews – a informational interview where a person can talk to a person about their profession. A person could do an information interview and ask the person about their company approach to the environment.

(e) News article – News articles may describe a company environmental impact. A person can search for news articles from library databases. The Library of Congress has a guide called “Doing Company Research: A Resource Guide” that gives information on how to research companies. (from https://guides.loc.gov/company-research/introduction). The guide has a section called “Searching for the News” that gives a collection of library databases that a person can search for news articles about a particular company (from https://guides.loc.gov/company-research/news). You can check your local library to see if your local library subscribes to any of the library databases described in the “Searching for the News” section.

(f) Reference Librarian – a reference librarian can help people find information. You may be able to ask a reference librarian for help in locating information on a company.

You may want to work for a company that has a positive impact upon the environment. The methods listed above can help you gain information about a company. You can evaluate if you want to work for that company or not.

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Disconnect from the Internet; focus on your task

Have you ever tried to do something that you know you need to accomplish but you were not interested in doing it? Could be a job-related task like:

• writing a resume
• editing the resume
• writing a cover letter
• editing the cover letter
• filling out an application
• preparing questions to ask in a job interview (sometimes at the end of a job interview you can ask questions)

You may be involved in some type of task you want to complete but you are not interested in doing it; so, for example, you may be bored with editing a resume so…. you decide to get on the Internet to look up the score of your favorite sports team.  You decide you are going to read your favorite sports team score and then go back to editing your resume.

You start to read your favorite sports team score and then you notice an article about a favorite player on your sports team.  You decide to read the article.  You then decide to look up the league information on your favorite sports team; and then look up another article on the weather conditions of a favorite sporting event you enjoy.  One task that you do leads to another

task that leads to another task that then leads to another task and so on.   What was supposed to be a 30 second activity turns out to be a 30-minute activity.

You decide to focus again and go back to editing your resume.  You start to focus on doing your resume and then boredom start to creep in.  You decide just to get on the Internet to listen to a YouTube video on a favorite history topic.  You know the video that you want listen to is only 5 minutes long and then you will get back to editing your resume.  You get on YouTube and watch the 5-minute history video; and then you notice that YouTube has given you suggestions of other videos to watch.  You find a seven-minute history video that would be fun to watch.  What is seven minutes? That a short period of time you think.  I can look at a 7-minute video and then I will get back to editing the resume.  You finish the 7-minute video and then see a suggestion for another video for 12 minutes; and decide to watch that 12-minute video and then watch another suggested video and so on.  Your short time period away from your task can turn out to be a longer period of time.

You decide you really need to focus on editing your resume; so, you go back to editing the resume for a while, and then decide you want to look up the weather forecast on a news web site, as you look for the weather forecast you find a movie review video on a movie you want to see in movie theaters on the news web site, you decide to watch the movie review video, and then you…

The Internet can be filled with many goodies that can occupy your time. The Internet goodies can be:

• look up your email
• look at an article of your favorite sports team that you may be interested in following
• listen to a podcast of a travel show
• a video of a history of a particular event
• a video of a relative birthday party
• a game where you save the world, or better yet same the cosmos

The Internet goodies can occupy a large part of your time when you are trying to get something done.  You can go from one Internet goodie, to another Internet goodie, to another Internet goodie and so on.  You can get into a pattern of jumping back and forth between the task you want to complete and Internet goodies.  The goodies of the Internet can district you from completing what you want to accomplish.

So, what can you do?  You can make a decision to disconnect your computer from the Internet.  Many computer devices will allow you to disconnect from the Internet and then you will not be able to access the Internet goodies.  You can start working on the task that you need to work on; if you feel you need to access an Internet goodie you will get a result similar to “Internet not available”.  You then can go back to the task that you are focused on. You can stay focused on your task until you feel you made enough progress.  You can then decide to connect your computer back to the Internet.  You can stay focused on your task with not being able to access the Internet goodie. You will not have access to Internet goodies to distract you from completing what you want to accomplish.

Another option is to take a break from that the task that you are doing.  You can take a break and then go back to the task that you are doing.  You may be re-energized to focus on your task after having a break.

You may be working on a job-related task that you need to complete but are getting distracted by the Internet; consider to disconnect your computer from the Internet to remain focus on completing the task that you want to focus on.

(This advice will work if the program you are working on does not need Internet access; if the program you are working on needs Internet access; you can attempt to have a timer set up where you say to yourself “I will work on this task for this amount of time”.  You set the timer for that particular period of time and then start the timer.  You then can commit yourself to work on that task for that particular amount of time.  Then you can “reward” yourself with a different activity when the timer period is over).

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You found it. Your Dream job. Now copy it.

Story about finding your dream job

You know what your dream job is going to be, and you decide you are going to go after your dream job.
You spend considerable amount of time searching the Internet to find the job position of your dreams.
And then suddenly, you find it – you find the job of your dreams.
You take time to apply for the job position.
You look at the job description and you realize you have time to prepare the application.
You gather your job-related information.  You obtain information like:

• You gather your current and past employment history
• You gather your educational history
• You gather your academic and work rewards
• You gather the names of your current and past supervisors from your work history
• You create and analyze your work duties

You spend time creating and evaluating your resume
You spend time creating and evaluating your cover letter.
You finally have all the job-related documents ready to go

You then go online and find your dream job.
You spend time filling out the online application
You double check to make sure all the information is correct on the online application
You triple check the application to make sure there are no errors.
You then click the “Apply” button to submit your application.

Wait for a response from the potential employer

You then wait for a response from the potential employer
The potential employer calls you to arrange an interview
You become very happy for a chance to obtain your dream job.
All your hard work on the application was worth it for you have been invited for an interview

You go online to your potential employer to find the job description and you find…. that the job description is no longer there.  Your potential employer only lists job descriptions when the potential employer is accepting applications for the job position. You cannot find a copy of the job description.

You start to stress and wonder what to do…Until you realize that you had made a copy of the job description.  You go into your word-processor and find a copy of your job description.

You grow more confident about the interview.
You go into the interview and you do a great job.
Your potential employer then offers you the job position
And you accept the offer and you obtained your dream job.  You have obtained the job of your dreams (I like stories with happy endings)

Make a copy of your job description

Make a copy of the job position that you are applying for.  Many organizations will only list the job description while they are accepting applications for the job position.  The job description will no longer be shown when the organization is no longer accepting applications for the job position. Make a copy of the job description so that you can be prepared.

Way to organize copied job descriptions

One way to organize job descriptions is through a word processor.  You can organize the job descriptions in a word – processor file by alphabetical order by the name of the potential employer organization and then by the name of the job title.

Keep a copy of the job description – that way, you can look at the job description if you are invited to a job interview.

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Super Bowl Ads can influence career choice

Super Bowl Advertising can influence career choice.

Advertising may influence a person in their career choice. Super Bowl ads for a example.

Super Bowl 55 played on February 7, 2021 gave a example of advertising influencing careers.  Super Bowl in the United States are where two American football teams play for the championships as part of the National Football League (NFL).  One feature of the Super Bowl that people may enjoy are the commercials; and I noticed two different types of commercials that could influence a person career choice.

The two different commercials were:

(1)       Squarespace (www.squarespace.com) – Squarespace is a web site service that helps business create their own web sites and other online services to help business grow.  In a commercial called “5 to 9” – The commercial gives people encouragement to pursue their own business and have people come to your business with a web site from Squarespace.

(2)       Indeed.com – Indeed.com is a web site that helps people find job positions. The commercial gives a positive view (in my interpretation) of looking for job positions a person may want to go into; a person is following a dream of entering a particular career and using Indeed.com to help find dream job positions.

Advertisements can influence careers.  Advertisements on careers can be found in many different places including the Super Bowl.

A collection of Super Bowl for 2021 can be found at the following YouTube page
All Super Bowl LV 2021 Ads & Commercials (GM, Toyota, Doritos, Tide Amazon, Robinhood, Cadillac)
YouTube Channel: Oddshot Compilations
Posted on February 8 2021
YouTube address: (YouTube Address no longer works)
The Description of the view shows when all the different Super Bowl 55 ads are shown.
Squarespace shown at 3:37 in the video, and Indeed.com shown at 31:44 in the video

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Time Travel and Light Speed

Busy time of life for me so decided to use a past post about science space; post originally was posted on March 6, 2017 I hope that you enjoy.

Going to post something little bit different from career area going to talk about science

I am not a physicists – and the mathematics of physics gets me lost – I do not understand the math.

I do enjoy physics from an amateur (or lay-person) viewpoint. I enjoy learning about physics ideas that are believed to be true – but do not seem to make sense from my common sense perspective.

One idea is dealing with time; from my personal experience – time travels at the same rate into the future. No matter what you are doing – the time clock is moving into the future at the same rate. You may read about time-travel in the world of fiction; but in the world of reality – time is consistent going at the same rate in the future.

So, when I hear science mentions that time can travel at different rates in the future; this does not fit my common-sense observation of what I actually see – and it is one of the features about physics that I enjoy.

The idea of time and traveling at light speed.
Strange things can happen when a person can travel at light speed.

As I understand it, time can travel at different rates of speed going into the future. You cannot go back in time but can go at different rates of time in the future. If I understand it and if the physics is correct, you can build a time machine going into the future but not the past.

(Not sure of the specifics dealing with the math; just give an example to express an idea)
If you are traveling in a ship at light speed, you may believe that you were traveling for one day; while people on planet Earth would believe that you were traveling for several years. Time travels at a slower speed inside the spacecraft than outside the spacecraft.

Time appears to be a something that can be measured traveling at different rates of speed into the future.

One place on the Internet that gives a good explanation of this is from a science show called Cosmos done by Carl Sagan. (It was a science program done in the 1980’s).

YouTube has a video about this, can find it at:
YouTube Video Address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy7rrrCQh2w
Or you can search under YouTube for the title:
“Time Dilation – Travel at Speed of Light – Special Relativity”

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. Hope people enjoy

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