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Deaf and Unemployed: 1k Applications but Still No Full-Time Job (2019)
- djsumdog 7y agoI have a good friend of mine who I worked with years ago. He's a usability engineer and he's completely blind (gradual; could see until he was a teenager). He keeps reading up on passive income and he wants to do something else, but he's with a good company and there's honestly not much else he thinks he can do. Even for disabled people who get work, it may be difficult for them to get other work or be as mobile as those without serious disabilities. Part of the problem is simply America as well. I met a women in a hostel from Norway who was on disability payments. It was enough to make her house payments, food and even some travel. People I know on disability in America can barely survive. We have no trains or good mass transit, and ride-shares/cabs are expensive.
- rini17 7y agoNot sure if there are any jobs left that don't require voice interaction over phone/skype/whatever. Heck, any kind of realtime multiplayer gaming neither! I can telephone but it's very unreliable and tiring. Am self-employed and it helps, but still any communication is constant source of anxiety - voice contact has became universal habit.