Who Gets Fibro?
911 Call Taker
911 Operator - for major metropolitan city
911 Operator - Law Enforcement Dispatcher
Accountant
Accountant and Quality Manager
Accounting
Accounting Manager
Accounts Payable Clerk
Accounts Payable Manager
Activities Aide - in a nursing home
Administrative Aide - mostly paperwork
Administrative Assistant
Administrative Assistant - State of Michigan, Government Enforcement Division for Licensing
American Sign Language Instructor
Apprentice Tech - installing security systems for jails and prisons
Assistant Manager - unloading a truck and the driver thought women were supposed to be as tough as men and he shoved the boxes at me, then I was robbed in August, and then had a car wreck while going to deposit the store's money
Assistant to the Chairman of an oil trading company
Athlete
Attorney
Bakery Freezer Department - 2 weeks of being pushed beyond anyone's strength - developed carpal tunnel, both wrists, then fibro set in.
Bank Teller - in a old building with asbestos
Banker
Beauty Therapist
Board Certifiied Music Therapist - busy schedule with lots of demands; however, symptoms began when I was a teenager and worsened in college.
Bookkeeper - full charge
Braille and Adaptive Skills Teacher - working half-time and library science student
Business Owner - along with my husband - I handle administration, human resources, accounting, and do all the work behind the scenes - my husband takes care of the on hand field work
Cabinetmaker
Call Center - Customer Service
Caregiver - for 2 elderly parents
Case Manager Case Manager - working with mentally ill adults
Cashier
Caterer
Certified Activities Professional - working with the elderly
Certified Hospice and Palliative Nursing Assistant
Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Charge Med Aide
Checkout Supervisor
Chemical Production Executive Assistant
Chemist in research lab
Chemotherapy for breast cancer
Child - was abused
Child - lived downwind of Dougway Proving Grounds
Children and Youth Caseworker - in a very old building with asbestos
Church Music Director
Cleaning Business
Clinical Research Manager for a large Pharmaceutical Company - did clinical studies in U.S. and worldwide
Co-owner with my then husband of a large Medical Company specializing in Labor & Delivery Products - work consisted of Traveling to Medical Conventions - also wife and mother.
College Professor
College Student
Commercial Real Estate Developer and Broker - in a major city making 6 figures - Masters in Public Administration
Communications Director
Communications Officer - for a State Employee Health Initiatives Department - very stressful
Composer / Songwriter
Computer Engineer
Computer Market Telephone Surveyor
Computer Operator
Computer Programmer
Computer Programmer / Analyst
Computing Professional - computer graphics imaging, animation and digital visual effects, system engineering and software engineering
Construction Manager
Corporate Financial Manager
Corporate Vice President of Human Resources
Counselor / Supervisor (Therapist)
Credit Union - loan department
Crime Analyst - for police department
Customer Retention Department
Customer Service Specialist Cashier
Customer Service Manager - for large hearing instrument manufacturer
Customer Service Representative
Dance Instructor
Dancer
Data Entry
Day Trader - stock market
Daycare Provider
Degreed Microbiologist/Lab Researcher - in the area of environmental contaminants, collecting and analyzing bacteria and toxic mold samples from water-damaged structures. I was overseeing the entire program and under an exceptional amount of stress. I was teaching continuing education classes and doing public speaking in the arena of environmental contaminants. I had minor surgery where I was heavily over-anesthetized. Also, I was sued for wrongful termination by an employee whom I had justifiably fired. We won, but it was a stressful process. Prior to my fibro onset, I had worked in labs doing genetics/DNA work and utilized mutagens and carcinogens during molecular tests. We were cautious, but one never knows what we were inadvertently exposed to in a lab (chemically or microbiologically).
Dental Assistant
Department Store Manager
Desktop Support (Computer) - for pharmacuetical company employees
Developmental Services Worker - front line direct care for physically and mentally disadvantaged adults in an institutional setting
Dietitian
Direct Mail Advertising Consultant and Sales
Direct Sales Management
Director of Quality Assurance
Disability Examiner
Divorce - going through nasty divorce
Doctors - several M.D.'s receive my newsletter but do not have fibro themselves. However, many M.D.'s have FMS/CFIDS, including Dr. Devin Starlanyl, Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum and Dr. Mark Pelligrino - all who have written books. (Recently, I was surprised to learn that one of my personal health care providers has fibro and misses work frequently.)
Doctor of Chiropractic
Dog Breeder & Farmer - plus homemaker, wife, mother, grandmother - maintained home, paid bills, cooked 3 meals a day, babysat 4 grandchildren, took care of milking, feeding and birthing of 40 goats, brought in hay, lifted 100 lbs of feed, cleaned out stalls, took care of chickens, turkeys, pigs, sheep, and 4 hunting dogs. Raised toy poodles and sold 40 a year, which involved caring for 25 toy poodles that each in a year's time would get haircuts 6 times a year. Some of the pups when born weighed only an ounce and would need 24 hour care.
Door Greeter
Editor and Publications Manager
Editorial Manager - of financial textbooks
Educator - Literacy Volunteers Trainer / Program Director and Early Childhood teacher
EFL Teacher (High School and College) and Department Head - in Israel, but I probably already had it when I was 15 - went to a very hard, high stress high school and spent 3 hours a day riding on the New York subway.
Electrical Engineer - earliest symptoms around age 11 - problems worsened with car accident
Elementary Deaf Teacher - at school for hearing impaired
Elementary School Music Teacher
Elementary School Secretary
Elementary School Student - with CFIDS (stressful year)
Elementary School Teacher - also mother to 1 infant and 1 teen
Elementary School Teacher- my portable was declared unsafe due to mold
Elementary School Teacher - transferred to Special Education of the Emotionally Disturbed - a/k/a worst discipline problems in the system who should really be incarcerated - job contributed to my illness and I had to leave it and all my benefits behind in 1991.
Elementary School Teacher - 20 years experience - working on Teacher of the Year program
Energy Consultant
Engineering Chief
Engineering Tech or Drafter - didn’t have fibro until I started working at a desk
Event Planner - at 5 star hotel properties
Executive Assistant
Executive Director of Assisted Living Company
Executive Director of a Non-Profit Organization
Executive Secretary
Factory Worker - machine operator
Flight Attendant
Flu shot started FMS/CFIDS
Forensic Expert - for local police department
Freelance Writer
Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment Construction Coordinator - for major hotel
Game Developer
Garage Trade - renovation and insurance repairs - many chemicals used in spray shops
Government Driver
Graphic Designer
Gym Manager
Hair Replacement
Hair Stylist
Hepatitis A - as a child
High School Student - with mono, interstitial cystitis and not sleeping
High School English Teacher
High School Teacher
Home Health Aide
Home School Group Director
Home School Mom
Homemaker / Housewife
Horse Trainer
Hospice Volunteer
Houseparent / Child Care Worker - at a School for the Deaf & Blind in a secondary deaf dormitory
HUD Section 8 Administrator / Payroll Clerk
Human Resources
IT Consultant
Industrial Security Specialist
Inspector / Sewing Machine Operator - piece rate system and 50+ hour work week
Instructor with Developmentally Disabled Adults
Insurance Underwriter
Interior Designer
International Business Consultant
International School Teacher
Inventory Control Coordinator
Journalist
Kindergarten Teacher
LPN (Nurse)
Lab Techican
Learning Disabilities Specialist/Program Coordinator - in South America
Legal Secretary
Legal Student
Licensed Massage Therapist
Licensed Massage Therapist
Librarian
Life/Job Skill Coach
Little kid - living in a house full of smokers, alcoholics, abuse and stress
Living in India - 10 years of possible exposure to viruses and environmental toxins
Living in Pakistan - 5 years with terrorist threats, evacuations and bomb attack which killed or maimed our friends - stress a contributing factor plus viral infections
Living in Southern Mexico - always hot and humid
Loan Officer
Machinist
Manager, County Auditor's Office
Manager, Insurance Company Call Center
Managing Editor- of a small marketing company
Massage Therapist
Meat Cook - school cafeteria
Medic - U.S. Air Force
Medical Assistant - cardiology office
Medical Billing
Medical Coder
Medical Researcher
Medical Secretary - to 5 surgeons, plus ran private practice for one surgeon
Medical Transcriptionist
Mental Health Technician - CMA with psychiatric training
Missionary
Mobile Directory Operator - also caretaker-mom
Model
Mortgage Loan Officer - at a major bank
Mother
Music Professor
Music Student in conservatory
Musician
Nanny / Housekeeper
New Mother
Nurse - at a nursing home
Nurses' Aide in Maternity - working on Bachelors in nursing and social psychology - raising 6 children - career ended in 2000 - was OB/GYN Nurse Practitioner / Educator / Administrator and grandmother
Nursing Administrator - stress level was very high
Nursing Homes - job involved bringing nursing homes up to government regulations and teaching seminars
Obstetrics Technician - 12 hour shifts
Office Administrator / Ward Clerk
Office Assistant
Office Coordinator - for prison ministry
Office Manager
Office Manager - for a non-profit organization
Office Support - must be at work by 8:00 a.m. - very difficult
Office Worker
Operating Room Trauma Nurse; R.D.C.S. (Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer); R.V.T. (Registered Vascular Technologist) - I had been in the medical field since 1976 until my total disability in 2001, 3 months after the death of my husband
Organist
Outside Sales - Industrial Supplies - Independent Professional
Owner of mural and faux finish company
Owner of music business - buying and selling of name entertainment - very stressful - late hours of work and travel
Paper Bundle Route Carrier
Paralegal
Pastor's Wife
Patent Agent - BS in Chemistry from Columbia University through attending night school while working full-time at a patent law firm in NYC
Patient Care Tech - in a local Hospital
Pharmaceutical Research Scientist
Pharmacist
Postal Employee
Postal Service Mail Encoder
Pregnant - not yet married - got in car accident
Pre-Med Student
Preschool Assistant Teacher
Preschool Teacher
Private Duty Nursing - for terminally ill and specialized in geriatrics
Private Duty R.N. - one patient, and mother of 5
Professional Forester
Professional Sales
Professional Speaker
Programmer
Project Manager/Program Manager - for IBM
Property Manager - for 300 apartments, 5 motels, and 11 houses
Psychotherapist
Public Relations - for major car manufacturer
Public School Music Teacher - grades K-8
PTA Mom
RN (Nurse)
RN, BSN - Board-Certified in Community Health / Public Health Nursing / Educator
RN - medical/surgical, same day surgery, hospice care, and home health manager
RN, RM, NMN Nurse
Radiologic Technologist
Reading Specialist - elementary school
Realtor
Receptionist - had just sustained a back injury
Receptionist / Data Entry Clerk - mother and full-time student
Receptionist / Word Processor
Registered Physical Therapist Assistant
Respiratory Therapist
Retail Jewelry Manager
Retail Store Manager
Rural Letter Carrier
Sales Manager - for medical manufacturer
Sales Rep.
Salon Owner
School Bus Driver
Science Teacher - 6th grade
Secretary
Secretary-Treasurer
Self-Storage Manager - stress and physical work
Senior Caseworker/Investigator -- Child Protective Services
Senior Loan Officer - at one of the largest credit unions in our state - I went to work one morning and felt fine - 3 hours later I became ill and haven't worked since that day - I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Senior Police Constable - 26 years of service - as a result of CFS/Fibro, I had to quit my career
Senior Research Assistant
SeniorTrainer/Manager - for large bank. Lots of standing, lifting heavy printed materials, training and working in a "no window" room with 20 computers going non-stop, overhead projectors, lights on and off, lots of stress on body and eyes. I loved it, but it didn't love me!
Singer / Guitar Player
Social Worker for State
Software Development - enhanced computer systems by programming or develop new software systems. I was in a bad accident, but tried going back to work part time but had to give it up.
Special Education Teacher
Special Education High School Teacher - very violent and emotionally abusive population and very high stress job - got me so run down, I became ill.
Special Education Teacher Consultant - managed complex alternative school focused on helping severely emotionally disturbed adolescents and adjudicated delinquents with coordination of the Dept. of Social Services
Sports Trainer - first aid for high school sports
Stable Manager
State Loan Clerk with USDA
State-Certified Social Worker and Community Educator
Stress in family from husband's job
Studying Medical Transcription
Substitute Teacher
Supervisor of a Call Center in Workforce Management
Supplier Quality Engineer
Systems Engineer - at IBM Corp.
Surgical Technician
Tax Accountant
Tax Office Secretary
Teacher - MS in education and was a teacher for many years and teacher training for NYC board of education...also working on my doctorate in education at that time. 4 people in the school were diagnosed with fibro and 3 others diagnosed at a young age (40's) with cancer. (2 passed away)..makes me wonder if there is an environmental trigger as well.
Teacher - huge difference in symptoms depending on where I am working. I am also a part-time mortgage broker so when I am at the office doing mortgages, I feel great (can make my own hours or work from home if i need to), but during the school year sometimes it is very difficult just to get thru the day. Stress is a big factor in how well I feel.
Teacher's Aide Technical Consultant - in specialized machine shop equipment - college degree in mechanical engineering
Teaching Assistant
Teaching English as a Second Language.
Team Leader - in an accounting department of a major bank
Technical Project Manager - computer engineering
Technical Sales Representative
Technical Support Staff - I worked with kids who had behavioral problems, one on one, in the classroom
Technical Writer for IBM
Telecommunicator for Verizon Wireless - fast paced with quotas
Telephone Banking
Tool Crib Attendant - at nuclear site
Translator & Language Consultant
Triage Nurse - at Naval Hospital
TV News Anchor
University Learning Disabilities Specialist - high, high stress!
University Librarian
Vice President of a Corporation
Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor
Wellness Director
Wildlife Biologist - contracted Ehrlichia, a tick-born disease, in 1995, was treated and since then developed fibro with symptoms getting worse each year.
Wildlife Rehabilitator
X-ray Technologist
Youth Group Home Counselor
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