What's up with you?

Today, I start a new state position that is a promotion.

I rejoined the workforce 9 years ago after 8 years living on disability. I was truly very ill for a long time. With the help of good doctors and excellent social workers and with my own determination to recover, I began to imagine going back to work. My job has been stressful and challenging and enormously rewarding. I am fully recovered. (I’m not cured of mental illness, but fully recovered.)

Now I’m ready for a new challenge. I began applying for new positions last year and finally found the right one. I will work in the Executive Office on Aging running a program giving funds to the elderly who qualify to hire their own caregivers to keep them independent as long as possible.

What’s up in your life? How’s the family? Are you getting around OK these days? Anything new? Cooked anything spectacularly delicious recently? Talk to us.