Surviving 2 Ways

As I mentioned before, I am a breast cancer survivor. So far, I’ve lived about a year more than they thought I would but “they” aren’t always right. In the past year and a half or so since I was diagnosed with breast cancer I have had to look for work two times once last March when I was let go from an insurance company of all things due to budget cuts. Now I’m looking again because the contract I am on is cutting my hours due to, again, budget cuts, so here I go again looking for work.

It’s difficult fighting cancer daily and still having monthly preventative treatment and also just hustling to survive life.

Currently I am doing a couple different gigs to survive and looking for more work. My current job I never told I had cancer at the time, well I was clear of cancer when I started this contract anyway, but I thought it better not to tell them. It’s hard to know the best thing to do about that because even if you are “ no evidence of disease” they call it, there is ongoing preventative treatment. So I am at a point now again looking for work and wondering do I tell them about the cancer and the year of chemo, and the surgery and the 33 rounds of radiation and the ongoing monthly IV treatment, all while working full-time, remote is my best option. But they say all that ongoing treatment is keeping me healthy? I really don’t know. Legally, companies aren’t supposed to discriminate against people with disabilities, which cancer is considered by law, though I can’t get disability from the government and I’m too young to retire unfortunately, even though I’ve been working in some form since I was 13 and I’m 50, y’all.

All this during a pandemic, great timing, but if I can survive cancer, I feel like I could handle anything, though trying to keep stress down, if that’s even possible. There was a time in my life I was working 5 little jobs, then 3 before being diagnosed with cancer. Occasionally I have only 1 job but it seems like it’s better to have 2, in case 1 falls through. As a divorced Mom with two kids and a mortgage, and a lot of debt because cancer took all my money basically, this is just what I have to do. Not always super fun, but such is life. I try to just hang on to the belief that things will work out. I have to believe that I didn’t come this far to just fall down and not get back up again. I’m good at getting up. So in the name of flagrant self-promotion here is my portfolio: https://rockwaterglass.wixsite.com/mollymchaney. I’m a copywriter by trade so if you hear of any leads, hit me up.