Well, I can understand if you did so with your first job and you wanted to work for Richard Avedon or Annie Leibovitz. But I can't really condone a professional going begging for a job. That's basically against any advice on careers websites!
Well, I think it is also in my interested to let them know that in case of an emergency I might not hear the PA if it is too low or if I am in a noisy environment. And I believe that the employer should be put in the best possible condition to offer me the level of safety that any other employee receives. What is something happens to me and then it turns out they didn't know about my hearing loss and thus it could have been prevented?!
Besides, is there any job where you are not supposed to answer your own phone?!
I knew about this and am I very surprised that you can be a flight attendant and hard of hearing.
You can easily tell there is something wrong with you by the tone of your voice. Being that deaf people cannot hear the tone of their voice and it's rare for a hearing person to come into contact with a deaf person they will automatically assume you have a mental retardation.
As for some of what I read in your post this is why employers do not like to hire those with disabilities.
Many people with disabilities since ADA have been catered to and just like you have your good set of people you have people who have been coddled by the system to where they believe they are owed a job or reduced rates and the normal person is a 'peon.'
The issue here is customer safety and customer service. Many disabled people of all sorts go into jobs and have a different mindset then what is expected of an employee. To where the customers needs must come first for many disabled persons out there in the workforce they have an mentality that they themselves come first and the customers needs come last....
That's always bothered me about the seniors and disabled.
I work in the customer service field and always am in a field that is either an emergency service or deals with those who are disabled. Every once in a while a pointless 'council' of ADA customers is heard and a company decides to hire customers who are known to complain, whine, try to get every person they talk to fired and give them a job.
I just so happened to work at two companies that did a mass hiring one in an emergency road side service call center and the other a ADA para transit program.
The ADA customers all hired on either quit or where fired by the end of the week.
For the para transit impatient blind, seniors and other people with forms of retardation either cussed out customers, refused to be patient with customers on the phone or just hung up on people because they were offended that other people on the phone cussed them out for no reason.
One blind senior fired herself by actually calling the compliant line she used to use to get people fired saying she was a worker and demanded this other person should be banned because the customer dared talk back to her so she cussed her out saying her disability was more important and that entitled her to talk down to the customer.
If you cannot do your job or put the customer first and do not think you'd be a good fit because of your disability don't apply.
Don't be the jerk blind lady who tells the person allergic to dogs that she must quit her job because being blind is more important and she must have a dog and that a person who can die by being near a dog must hire die or quit.
Lol that court case was funny and I still don't understand how a person who is blind trumps a person with an allergy to dogs.