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The Not My Job Award
February 2, 2009 2:57 PM by OTCM

A popular email attachment depicts a dead armadillo in the middle of the road - with the yellow median stripe re-painted over the carcass. The caption reads "Winner of the 'Not My Job Award' - [State] Department of Transportation." We can chuckle, but Read More...

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Across the Great Divide
January 27, 2009 9:28 AM by OTCM

With so much variety within OT and case management (CM) practices, it's difficult to describe how CM can (and should) be part of any OT practice; and how OTs with-case manager job titles continue to practice OT. But recently, ADVANCE for OTs columnist Read More...

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Wage Factors Part 4: The color of money on the other side of the fence
November 24, 2008 2:19 PM by OTCM

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. Robert Fulghum Read More...

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Wage Factors Part 3: OTCM Job satisfaction
November 17, 2008 11:24 AM by OTCM

"If money is the root of all evil, then why do we have to have jobs?" Matt Groening (1954 - ), Bart Simpson's guide to life At some point in my blog, I'll talk about the concept of adding case management (CM) into one's current OT practice. But for the Read More...

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Wage Factors Part 2: Financial epiphany
November 11, 2008 11:08 AM by OTCM

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free. George Carlin (1937 - 2008) When I was young and working multiple jobs just to pay the (shared) rent, I had the mantra "if I could just make $X per year, I'd be set." $X was never more Read More...

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Just how important are wages in career decisions?
November 3, 2008 11:50 AM by OTCM

"It ain't what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know that ain't so" - Artemus Ward (American humorist, 1834 - 1867) Today's post follows up on the question I posed at the end of my 10/20/08 blog entry: how does an individual determine Read More...

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