A Question For Those Employed: How Hard is Your Job, Really?

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Its my belief that with most jobs, all you need to do is show up everyday on time and the rest is common sense. Employers for whatever reason seem to be reluctant to hire deaf/disabled. Its discouraging when you dont even get a chance.

Ive worked in different situations. One time directly for the owner where he treated me like a slave. Another time for a moderate sized company where there wasnt much work to do. How is it for you guys. Are you working nonstop wracking your brains out the entire time? Or is it more like going through the motions coasting.

When driving aroud town, I will see someone driving a real expensive car, and I think to myself, what do they do for living and how difficult can it really be that they make so much to afford such an expensive car:hmm:?
 
My job is hard at times cuz there is just so much to do and so little time. Because I work at a deaf school, discrimination against deafness is nonexistent but sometimes there were situations where favorism was present. I have full control of my classroom and environment. I dont have a boss hovering around me daily and she is very easy to get along with which is nice. Another thing I like about it is that it stimulates me daily because I have to be creative and do a lot of thinking.

The only time I dont like it is when I have to do IEPs...I dont like paperwork.
 
My job is generally pretty easy, the only thing you really need to be able to do is pick up boxes. There are times though, when the volume is really heavy and you basically end up running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

But I have worked for companies in the past that didn't like to hire disabled or didn't give them a good posistion... WalMart will only let HoH employees do things such as people greet or curiosity associate. I never did tell them I was HoH, they never noticed the HAs either cause I grew my hair just over the ears LOL
 
thats pretty insulting of walmart to limit hoh to greeting.

how do you like those summers of shel?

how about some input from those that arent deaf or hard of hearing.
 
My job is not hard. I do data entry and translation to and from English and Persian for an Iranian Human Rights foundation.

You can check out our website here.
In English: Human Rights in Iran - Human Rights & Democracy for Iran
In Farsi: بنیاد برومند - حقوق بشر و دموکراسی برای ایران

I used to do photo scanning and editing but now I just work with data entry.

The hardest part about my job is that it is emotionally wearing. I have to translate cases about people who were brutally tortured, imprisoned, hanged, etc. As compensation, our work atmosphere is very comfortable.
 
My job is somewhat challenging. Some days it will be challenging but then, on some other days, it is easy to do.

I'm a quality control auditor for a health insurance company that works along on the side with the medicare system.

What I do is process and verify these errors on the papers; assign each client to a specific enrollment program that is provided as per guideline; and or to change/update the existing plans for each client. At some point, it can be complicated because of several enrollment period that is overlapped along together which results in a "cold" case which means that the case is on hold until it is sorted out.
 
Doug5 said:
how much do you make an hour? Do you get overtime if you sleep in? :giggle:
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I work 80 hours a week being an Inn Keeper. I get free housing, free internet, free cable, free use of laundry services, etc, etc.

The reason why I said that my job is " :zzz: " because it is ":zzz:"--9 months out of the year. Only 3 months of the year--it's slammed busy! (June, July, August)

I am so looking forward to be moving to a new city with mind stimulating jobs......
 
Also this post does not exclude hearing and HoH members from the question.
 
Byrdie714 said:
Jiro's post is a good start to get an idea of what our jobs are. However the OP asked--how hard is our job
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yep that's what I thought so. To answer your question, Doug - I am the webmaster for university. my job is not really very difficult. It can get time-consuming at some time but most of time.... :zzz: the busiest time is beginning and end of the college semester.
 
Well, I spoke of my last job in the other thread, so perhaps I can restate here as well in terms of difficulty of it. I'm no longer employed at this moment but I suppose that's not the concern. I worked for 1.5 years at this job.

My last job was doing Software and IT support/being a technician and systems admin, so it was really versed in the world of computers.

We received client orders, notices, office dispatches through our PDAs and cellphone. Upon receiving them, we'd dispatch ourselves to the site where we were required to do pretty much anything with our client's computers or even set them up for them.
There wasn't much difficulty involved, as I had to train myself in the beginning over the basics of the software and how to work out problems that people had. Everything else I learned prior beforehand, in tech support and problems in IT.

So it was basically drive to client offices, work on their PCs/network alone or help someone who had a problem there, or be in the office and connect remotely to other people's machines and fix it for them over the internet.

It was a pretty simple job in terms of doing what you were supposed to do, You get presented with A and you're supposed to finish A in your own methods. But it by no means wasn't laid back, as I was constantly stressed trying to meet the quota and deadlines of any tasks because I'd get called by a lot of people requesting my presence at their offices while I'm working on someone else's at the same time. We also didn't get paid overtime, just by salary so there wasn't any benefit for working after 5PM.


I'd totally take your job Byrdie, I'd rather have a slow relaxing environment than the stress involved with deadline type jobs. BTW, why are those 3 months the busiest? Ours were like Nov-Jan, Jul-Aug. similar to yours.
 
Doug5 said:
thats pretty insulting of walmart to limit hoh to greeting.

how do you like those summers of shel?

how about some input from those that arent deaf or hard of hearing.
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I love them not because I am off which I am not cuz I have a 2nd job working at the public schools during the summer. I love it cuz of the variety of each year with new classes and new students. I like finding out who will be my aide and who will be my new students. The school where I work at is so small so we feel like a family so it is like elementary school anticipating the new class schedule to see which of my friends are in my classes...same thing with the teachers and aides..it is a lot of fun!
 
At Enterprise, my job is generally easy but the physical thing is pretty tough. There is a lot of moving the cars, rinsing them, scrubbing, rinsing, vaccumming, cleaning windows, etc. It can get tiring if it's on a busy day.

At Shared Journeys, not really easy job. You have to take care of the develop disabled clients. Nothing's easy about the job and it involves communication, the observations of their behaviors, all that stuff. Of course, we take classes to help efficently communicate and observe their behaviors when needed.
It does varies client to client because some are not so demanding and others can be really demanding.
 
sequoias said:
At Enterprise, my job is generally easy but the physical thing is pretty tough. There is a lot of moving the cars, rinsing them, scrubbing, rinsing, vaccumming, cleaning windows, etc. It can get tiring if it's on a busy day.

At Shared Journeys, not really easy job. You have to take care of the develop disabled clients. Nothing's easy about the job and it involves communication, the observations of their behaviors, all that stuff. Of course, we take classes to help efficently communicate and observe their behaviors when needed.
It does varies client to client because some are not so demanding and others can be really demanding.
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I used to be a full time resident counselor for a group home on the weekends a few years ago...I can relate to what u are saying. I had one client who was so demanding ...it was exhausting but that was part of his illnessness so I couldnt hold it against him. Poor thing died last year. :(
 
shel90 said:
I used to be a full time resident counselor for a group home on the weekends a few years ago...I can relate to what u are saying. I had one client who was so demanding ...it was exhausting but that was part of his illnessness so I couldnt hold it against him. Poor thing died last year. :(
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Awww that sucks. :( The sad thing that develop disabled clients have a shorter lifespan on average...most don't live no more than 50-55 years old due to that they don't have a good life like the normal humans do.
 
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