What a year it has been!! I sustained a career-ending inju…

What a year it has been!! I sustained a career-ending injury to my hand at work last year. Feeling really grateful that I’ve had work-safe insurance to help me out and cover things while I’ve been figuring out my life! One of the marks of an evolved society is how well it treats its workers. It’s a sign of how messed up our system is though, that we’ve had to fight hard for these rights. Our addiction to capitalism is feeding such a big cognitive dissonance when you understand just how dehumanizing and anti-nature it all is!!!

I am a perfect example of this. Had I taken some time off right when I cut off the tip of my finger, it would have healed up and I’d probably still be able to use my hand. But I worked my finger that I was favouring and ended up disabling my hand. I can’t lift frying pans or wring out cloths without incredible pain now. It took almost a year of trying to get back to work to realize that I can no longer be a chef as my career. Oof!!!

What do you do when you can no longer do the only thing you’ve ever known how to do??!

The support of Work-Safe.. has been tremendous and I’ve been feeling really positive about the experience…. And well-taken care of. I’m getting almost as much as my normal wage. The process has been slow though. And I only feel a little bit closer to figuring out what to do for the rest of my life. It’s daunting!!

I Love blockchain and am slowly figuring out coding and other fun stuff. Would I ever Love to make a career out of something where I could be creative… I will have resources to get training for something but honestly, I’m afraid of making the wrong choice??!!

I have a hard time imagining doing something else other than being a chef. Mostly, because I imagine any other job would be really boring. In a kitchen I’m working on seventeen different things at once, in a time crunch. I can’t imagine accounting being anywhere near as exciting as that!!!

Ive got access to tools of therapy and a team there to help me out but in the end it’s all up to me. I’m in such a privileged place to have the resources I do and yet it’s still so terrifying.