At which stage of a sickness do you decide not to go to work?

in health •  7 years ago  (edited)

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I’m a freelancer and not going to work for me means not earning money. Losing one working day means losing one-fifth of the whole income of a month.

Well, today I canceled my commission for Thursday in advance. Means 4 days earlier I decided to tell them I cannot come, so they could have time to find somebody else to do the job.

My illness started about three weeks ago and since then, I have some normal days and some days I just have to stay in bed.

Obviously it was impossible to tell if this coming Thursday would be one of those painful days in bed or a happy day out!

I also could not tell if going to work and stay sitting for almost 8-10 hours, would not worsen my problems. Therefore, I finally decided not to take the risk and called the client to cancel.

but the bad feeling stayed with me. Thinking that it was not too bad after all or I could eventually handle a painful day at work .. .

Have you had a similar situation? or can imagine having it?
What is your pain threshold? when do you usually give up thinking about your regular responsibilities and give a second thought about your health issues?!

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I have several factors that play a role... For example:

  • Is it possible to quit your job after you have started?
  • How long is the way to and from work?
  • how helpful and understanding the employees are
  • If you endanger your employees or make them uncomfortable, you can endanger them with the risk of infection.
  • aso

and YOU?

////////////// deutsch ////////////////

mehrere Faktoren spielen bei mir eine rolle... Zum Beispiel:

  • ist es möglich seinen job abzubrechen nachdem man begonnen hat?
  • wie lange ist der weg zur und von der Arbeit
  • wie hilfsbereit und verständnisvoll sind die Mitarbeiter
  • gefährdet man durch Ansteckungsgefahr seine Mitarbeiter oder ist es ihnen unangenehm.
  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Dear Paule, Thank you for writing!
here are my answer to the factors you named.

1- hardly
2- 70 km
3- each time new people , so don't know
4- no danger for my colleagues

Deutsch
1- nicht wirklich
2- 70 km
3- jedes Mal neue Leute
4- Keine Ansteckungsgefahr für meine Kollegen

so, What would you say now?

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