Katie Coleman stood face-to-face with a choice no job seeker should ever have to make. She could tell her prospective employer she had stage 4 kidney cancer, the most life-threatening stage of all.She knew she risked losing any shot at the job by being honest about her diagnosis — or risked losing her self-respect by keeping quiet about it.
Yet, while interviewing for the high-pressure software engineering job she desperately wanted, Coleman shared her diagnosis with the CEO of MDisrupt, an Austin-based company that connects clinicians and scientists with digital health companies. Coleman’s experience has become something of social media lore as she shares updates about her cancer battle and her new job in posts on Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. She’s leaving a deep footprint across social media that she believes could help fellow cancer patients for years to come.
“I look at my diagnosis as my greatest strength,” Coleman said. The type of tumor she has is almost always benign, but in her case, it wasn’t. The app allows her to keep track of her doctors — and everything else she needs for her care — in one place. She shared her creation for other patients to use free of charge. Gadelrab “really liked that I was building a positive out of a negative,” Coleman said.
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Stage 4 cancer and still has to work... in the richest country in the world...
She can fight the good fight...🤝
In May, I interviewed w/ SelectQuoteIns & was advised Id be called back within 48 hrs for a 2nd interview. No call, messages unreturned. A recruiter for StateFarm texted in response to my app. I called back & she texted she was on another call. No call back, messages unreturned
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Bootstraps idealogy til ☠️💀 ty NBC for this depravity. Send the poor woman on a fkng vacation