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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diehardbiker" data-source="post: 2311968" data-attributes="member: 2076">I love steel! And yes I love steel over stupid plastic. Oh I forgot I was born and raised in Steel city. My mind still has vividly clear pictures of these steel mills, especially J&L Steel (Jones and Laughlin), you could google up and see for yourself. BUT perhaps due to that your latened Deaf, I don't know if it would be any different than born Deaf like me where I grew up use more of other senses to make it more sensitive in replacement of hearing loss. Sometimes hearing people asked me how the hell do I know danger is coming when there are sounds and I am dead Deaf. My response was I use other sense that warns me as well and it proved that it works. I think it is lame to classify hearing loss as high risk. This is truly HOGWASH! I would love work with steel, but Im getting too old, LOL I DO have another issues, I have 4 herniated discs in my cervical spine. They were due to repetitive motion injury. I don't know how old you are, the older you are, the harder to make a major career decision. For me, Im almost 49 years old, and making career decision was rather extremely difficult because I know I am good at one thing, and giving up something that I am good at was rather difficult. Even right now, I am in middle of surgery recovery and I don't know until maybe 6 months later. I decided not to push myself at this time, I not decided whether to go back school to take machinist course (With metal of course!), or just look for part time retail or simple job since workers compensation will pay the difference between the income I make on part time and the best wage I get back then at 100% tax free, or go back to the job that I love as part time, yet getting full time pay anyway. My issue is, I rather WORK than stay at home! And work part time seems too small for me, but again health comes first so I really don't know. Best I could do is focus on my recovery, maybe you could consider treatment options like maybe CI, that is if  your current employer accept you with CI. I have a very very strong feelings that within 20 years from now, employers will look Deaf completely differently than when it was then. That is because for years and years, there are no documented evidence that being Deaf is more dangerous than being hearing, and there are loosen documents showing the opposite as true. For instance Federal DOT that oversees CDL (Commercial Drivers License) for OTR drivers, is now working on removing hearing requirements for taking CDL exam, because they couldn't come up with proof that Deaf drivers are worse driver than hearing and they DID find that Deaf shows marginally better than hearing drivers does. Only problem I have is, 20 years later, I will be enjoying my retirement days. Be strong, don't give up, and if you need recovery, give em time. I made mistake by pushing my previous recovery over the limits, due to wanting go back work earlier than I should have.</blockquote>

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