Worried for my future..

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Kikiers

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Hello, I'm new to this place. My name is Kiana im Hoh. when i was born my left ear had mild heariing loss and my right ear was kinda ok. Now im almost 17, and my left has severe hearing loss and and my right has mild. Well, i'm getting a bit worried because i'm afraid i wont be able to find a job ill enjoy because the two jobs i want you need to be able to hear. I want to become a light and sound technician for movies/ plays/ and TV shows, OR a prision guard. Well im in Technical theater at my highschool ( i go to a public highsschool not the deaf one.) and i already have trouble understanding them from far away. i get mixed up on what numbers they say or i cant hear them period. then they get annoyed. but i love doing this, its one of my passions. it's easier for me to understand people when there facing me but i cant read lips. what do you guys do a jobs? did you guys worry about this when you were younger or is it just me? do you guys enjoy your job? what can i do or learn to help me out understanding them? my hearing aids do no help for me.
Thank you!
 
Kikiers said:
I want to become a light and sound technician for movies/ plays/ and TV shows, OR a prision guard.
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Forget about prison guard. In the first place, you have to have perfect vision and hearing, and secondly, you'll need to get used to prisoners throwing urine and feces at you - not the most pleasant job and it's low paying. Why would you put yourself through that? Remember, they're in jail and so are you, not much of a career; it’s also dangerous. I don’t know of too many guards that get far in the job before they’re stabbed or attacked by a prisoner. You're looking at two very different jobs so I think you're undecided. Are you good with numbers? Accounting is solitary work and would not be greatly impacted by your hearing. Good with sciences and math and love animals? You could look at a career in veterinary science. I work in federal service myself. It's not the highest salary but the job is stable and the benefits are good and they have to accommodate your disability.


Laura
 
No, im not that great with numbers so thats out. i want a job were its something different everyday and something ill enjoy for the reast of my life but it seems being hard of hearing/deaf very much limits your choices.
 
I got a deaf friend of mine who is a mechanic. You would be in demand if you wanted to be an auto mechanic. Not many women in that field. I'm sure you will be able to find a job there.
 
Kikiers said:
No, im not that great with numbers so thats out. i want a job were its something different everyday and something ill enjoy for the reast of my life but it seems being hard of hearing/deaf very much limits your choices.
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As does being learning disabled which has an even greater impact. Finding something that matches your description is hard for most average people the world over and not everyone does what they enjoy. However, the link is below and you can browse what's out there:

www.usajobs.gov
 
dereksbicycles said:
I got a deaf friend of mine who is a mechanic. You would be in demand if you wanted to be an auto mechanic. Not many women in that field. I'm sure you will be able to find a job there.
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I believe that also involves math skills which she says isn't her strength. I'd recommend a career counselor.
 
As a HoH currently employeed as a software programmer what I have to say is, yes, unfortunately having the disability limits your options.

You'd have to try to find jobs where your hearing is not critical. I did think about being a nurse but the problem is misunderstanding medicine information and sometimes there are emergencies and there just isn't enough time to say, "huh, can you repeat that?" I wouldn't want someone to die on me because I misheard critical information.

At least right now as a software developer I do all my communication with IMs, emails, and even rare face to face meetings so my hearing disability is not an issue at all.

I know that there are disability laws but the reality is most companies are not willing to jump through big hoops just to give you a job when they can give some other able bodied person that job.

Good luck!
 
Have a friend (who is a detective)..amd his daughter is a jailor (Duval County)...and she is deaf (profound)...no speech...hmmmm...criminal justice?...she does want to follow her father's footsteps....
 
A Nihilist said:
I did think about being a nurse but the problem is misunderstanding medicine information and sometimes there are emergencies and there just isn't enough time to say, "huh, can you repeat that?"
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The bigger issue is that nursing requires very strong math and science skills and the bulk of course work involves math and science. Software enginnering also involves a lot of math and science...however, the OP doesn't say she's learning disabled, just that she's not good with math. Not being good with a subject doesn't always mean the person is learning disabled, just that's it's not their strength.
 
You can be a light technician...go for it!
 
Lau2046 said:
The bigger issue is that nursing requires very strong math and science skills and the bulk of course work involves math and science.
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Really? I have a friend who's a nurse and been doing it for 10+ years and math/science are not her favorite subjects and doesn't do well with those either.
 
A Nihilist said:
Really? I have a friend who's a nurse and been doing it for 10+ years and math/science are not her favorite subjects and doesn't do well with those either.
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No way you can be a nurse with poor math and science skills....even more so true for nurses that work in the ER, pediatric nurses, RNs or LPNs....everything in this job is math and science. I would wonder where your friend works and what the exact nature of her job is. Frankly, you could easily kill a person in this field with one small mathematical error....my mother worked as an RN for many years along with my aunts who were also nurses. You need to be at the top of your game….it's even harder for those working in veterinary science. Very demanding....


I wanted to follow my mother in this field but didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell and my hearing loss had absolutely nothing to do with it.....
 
Whether you use what you learn in school depends on what you are presented on the job. The great majority of times, unless you are specializing, those skills are never used or there is a program for it.

A software engineer learns thing in the event he has nothing, but that is seldom the case in the field. It's like a survivalist who learns how to make fire. Yes, it is imprtant to know in the event you don't have a lighter, but that would be very rare. You wouldn't be much of a survivalist if you didn't prepare which is the first thing you are taught.

School is nothing like work, do not confuse the two.
 
A Nihilist said:
As a HoH currently employeed as a software programmer what I have to say is, yes, unfortunately having the disability limits your options.

You'd have to try to find jobs where your hearing is not critical. I did think about being a nurse but the problem is misunderstanding medicine information and sometimes there are emergencies and there just isn't enough time to say, "huh, can you repeat that?" I wouldn't want someone to die on me because I misheard critical information.

At least right now as a software developer I do all my communication with IMs, emails, and even rare face to face meetings so my hearing disability is not an issue at all.

I know that there are disability laws but the reality is most companies are not willing to jump through big hoops just to give you a job when they can give some other able bodied person that job.

Good luck!
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Yep!! When I was going back to school and looking at the programs they offered I nixed Nursing off right away. I have almsot all the education requirements to become a nurse, massage therapists have to take a lot of the same courses, but I still wouldn't go for it.

exactly because of what I bolded. "give the patient 50 CC's of whatever" At least that might be what I heard, but what they said was 15 CC's....yep totally killed the patient. No, way too scarey for me.
 
You are only 17, and life rarely turns out the way you thought it would. I was supposed to be a CAD draftsman when I was a senior, but after college, I went into electronics & programming.

Two or three buddies of mine have been programmers for many years, and they are profoundly deaf.

There are plenty of jobs out there that don't require perfect hearing. Unfortunately the hearing world thinks we can't do much, so it is up to us to show them that we can do it.
 
ambrosia said:
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exactly because of what I bolded. "give the patient 50 CC's of whatever" At least that might be what I heard, but what they said was 15 CC's....yep totally killed the patient. No, way too scarey for me.
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Point taken, however, take a look at all the mistakes nurses make on a daily basis. How many of them were caused by not hearing someone correctly? Most of the ones I read about are caused by nurses not reading something properly.

You probably would work out fine as long as you use visual aids (and work for doctors with decent bedside manners.....)
 
I think your concern for your future is well founded. Our society is very unforgiving on the subject of deafness. There is in fact a similarity between the way hearing society treats the deaf and deaf society treats mild and manageable schizophrenia. It is a basis for drumming someone out.
 
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