Find work that works around your brain
A practical, community-backed school helping young adults with epilepsy find, land, and thrive in remote-friendly careers — built around the realities of unpredictable health, no car, and a fierce need for independence.
"I built this school for my daughter who needed a sharp, honest guide — not another inspirational speech — so let's skip straight to what you actually do next."— Chris Oldenburg
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the remote job categories and specific roles that best match your seizure patterns, energy levels, and schedule unpredictability
- Build an honest, compelling resume and LinkedIn profile that frames your condition as context — not a liability — to disability-affirming employers
- Navigate Vocational Rehabilitation, SSI/SSDI work incentives, and ADA accommodations so you capture every dollar and protection available to you
- Use asynchronous communication tools and productivity systems that protect your output on high-symptom days without exposing you to performance risk
- Connect with a vetted peer mentor and an employer network of companies with proven track records of hiring and retaining remote workers with epilepsy
- Construct a 90-day income plan — whether full employment, freelance, or a hybrid — that fits your medical reality and moves you toward financial independence
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
7 modules · 22 lessons
Know Your Work Profile
Before a single application is sent, learners build a precise, honest picture of their functional work capacity. This foundational module ensures every subsequent decision — role type, work model, accommodations strategy — is grounded in the learner's actual medical and energy reality rather than aspiration or fear. It also establishes the rights framework so learners approach the job market from a position of informed confidence, not vulnerability.
- 1.1Map Your Seizure & Energy PatternsIncluded
- 1.2Match Your Skills to Seizure-Safe Role CategoriesIncluded
- 1.3Understand Your Rights Before You ApplyIncluded
Build Your Professional Story
With a clear work profile established, learners now craft the external-facing materials and verbal narrative that represent them to employers. This module treats the resume, LinkedIn profile, and spoken pitch not as administrative tasks but as strategic communications — each designed to frame the learner's experience honestly and compellingly for disability-affirming employers, without leading with the condition or hiding it clumsily. Sequencing after Module 1 is critical: the story must be built on the work profile, not invented in a vacuum.
- 2.1Write a Resume That Tells the Truth — StrategicallyIncluded
- 2.2Build a LinkedIn Profile That Gets FoundIncluded
- 2.3Prepare Your Verbal Pitch for Interviews & NetworkingIncluded
Navigate the Systems That Can Fund You
This module equips learners with a working, practical command of the three funding and protection systems most relevant to their employment journey: Vocational Rehabilitation, SSI/SSDI work incentives, and the ADA accommodations process. Each system is powerful but complex, and the consequences of misunderstanding them — lost benefits, missed funding, forfeited legal protections — are serious. The module is sequenced after the professional story is built so learners arrive at VR and ADA conversations already knowing their target role, their work profile, and their legal baseline.
- 3.1Activate Vocational RehabilitationIncluded
- 3.2Work the SSI/SSDI Work Incentives Without Losing BenefitsIncluded
- 3.3Request and Enforce ADA Accommodations at WorkIncluded
Work Sustainably with an Unpredictable Body
Getting the job is only the beginning. This module addresses the operational and psychological reality of sustaining employment when seizures, postictal recovery, medication side effects, and fluctuating energy are permanent variables — not temporary obstacles to push through. Learners build concrete systems for async-first work, learn to communicate proactively through health flares without damaging professional relationships, and develop a mental health practice that treats their psychological wellbeing as a career-critical asset, not a personal indulgence. This module is deliberately placed after the systems and legal modules: learners need funding secured and rights understood before committing to sustainable work design.
- 4.1Design Your Async-First Work SystemIncluded
- 4.2Communicate Through Flares Without Burning TrustIncluded
- 4.3Protect Your Mental Health as a Professional AssetIncluded
Find Employers Who Actually Hire People Like You
With a strong work profile, polished materials, funded support systems, and a sustainable work design in place, learners now focus on finding and engaging the right employers. This module cuts through the noise of generic job boards to build a targeted, intelligence-led search focused on disability-affirming remote employers with documented hiring and retention track records. It also equips learners to access the hidden job market through community and network channels — where the majority of remote roles in this population's target categories are actually filled.
- 5.1Identify and Vet Disability-Affirming EmployersIncluded
- 5.2Get Inside the Hidden Job MarketIncluded
- 5.3Nail the Remote-Specific InterviewIncluded
Build Your 90-Day Income Plan
The final module integrates every prior element — work profile, professional story, funded systems, sustainable operations, and employer targets — into a single, executable 90-day plan. The plan is realistic by design: grounded in each learner's medical reality, calibrated to their benefits situation, and structured around their specific income model. The addition of a vetted peer mentor provides accountability and lived-experience guidance that no curriculum alone can replicate. This module closes the loop between knowledge and action.
- 6.1Choose Your Income ModelIncluded
- 6.2Connect with a Peer MentorIncluded
- 6.3Write and Execute Your 90-Day PlanIncluded
Find Opportunities
Attach EpiPath job matching.
- 7.1Set Up Your ThriveCareer ProfileIncluded
- 7.2Get Matched with a Peer MentorIncluded
- 7.3Participate in the Community Without Burning OutIncluded
- 7.4Use the Employer Network to Open Real DoorsIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The newly diagnosed 20-something
Recently diagnosed and watching their old career path evaporate — needs to rebuild from scratch around a body they're still learning to understand.
The SSDI recipient afraid to earn
On disability benefits and terrified that taking any job will cost them their safety net — needs to understand exactly what they can earn and how.
The underemployed gap-résumé holder
Has work history full of gaps and short stints caused by seizures and needs a strategy to tell that story without it killing their chances.
The car-free job seeker
Can't drive and lives somewhere public transit won't save them — remote work isn't a preference, it's the only viable path, and they need to crack it.
The burned-out office worker
Has been masking and white-knuckling through an in-person job and needs to transition to a remote role before their health — or their job — gives out first.
The freelancer without a roadmap
Dabbling in gig work but has no income plan, no protections, and no idea how to build something sustainable around unpredictable energy and symptoms.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Chris Oldenburg
I know what it's like to watch my daughter stare at a job listing and feel a quiet dread set in — not because she can't do the work, but because she doesn't know how to explain the gaps, the inconsistency, the days when your brain just isn't yours. And I know what it's like to want financial independence for her so badly it physically hurts, while every system around you seems designed to assume she either doesn't want to work or can't.
That's exactly why I built Seizure-Proof Careers. Not to motivate you — you don't need motivation. You need a map.
This school exists because the standard career advice is useless for people like my daughter. "Network at events" — okay, but I can't drive. "Show up consistently" — sure, but seizures don't care about my boss's expectations. "Just don't mention your condition" — great, and what do I say about the two-year gap on my resume? Every module in this school is built around the actual questions you're sitting with right now. Which jobs can I realistically do? How do I talk about my health without tanking my application? What happens to my SSDI if I start earning? How do I keep a job on the days I can barely keep a thought?
I've mapped the real terrain — the VR offices, the SSI work incentives, the ADA accommodation process, the async tools that make remote work genuinely sustainable — and I've laid it out in plain language with zero medical condescension. You won't be talked down to here. You'll be handed the tools, walked through the moves, and connected with people who have actually done what you're trying to do.
If you're ready to stop waiting for your situation to become "normal enough" to start — this is your next step. Let's build your 90-day plan and get you moving.
— Chris Oldenburg
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