Category: Jobs and Employment
Hi everyone
Know there might be a topic or two similar to this but just had to post this
somewhere where hopefully, people will understand.
I think I may have figured out something I would like to do as a career, but i'm
scared that i will neither get into my degree, or if i do, that i won't get a job
after it.
I know it's possibly the same everywhere, but ireland is particularly bad in it's
attitude towards disability in general, but really in relation to people with visual
impairments.
I am finding it quite difficult to stay motivated and find myself quite down lately.
Just wondering, how have others got through similar situations?
Any insight greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Firstly let me say, in my opinion, that your whole attitude is wrong.
I'm not criticizing you for it, I'm merely expressing my opinion.
I don't know what the state of attitudes towards disabled people is in Ireland, so, you probably know best.
I think people need a goal to fight for, and you sound like you have one, sort of. But you sound like you are defeated before you get started.
If things are too formidable where you live, you can either move to a better place, or change things where you live. It all depends how much you really want to succeed in life. And I hope you really want to succeed, because no one else can do it for you.
Sorry for sounding so goddam preachy. I just hate to see people give up before they've even started.
Bob
I'm back with one more bit of advice.
Check out this board topic, Is it sometimes our attitude?
She says it much better than I ever could.
Bob
I take it you're in college, Pisces_dreamer.
I have a daughter in college too. Learning not to get overwhelmed is a skill for many people. You can learn it. I don't know if it's attitude, or just plain old problem-solving. The thing I tell my daughter is: The way to eat an alligator is one bite at a time.
Her only disability is this propensity you seem to have, where you let it all get ahead of you before anything starts. We recently had to find out what was wrong with her car. This meant I sent her to one shop to get a new battery and a scan done, and it meant she needed to call me with the amount it was going to cost, read back the results on the receipt so I knew what the man thought the trouble was. She'd never done any of this before. And most of the trouble she ran into was because she was getting all flighty and out of sorts over the whole thing for the simple reason that she hadn't done it before.
She was successful only when she dealt with one single issue at a time. Get on the phone with AAA, get towed to the shop, get signed in, etc. etc.
you can do this too.
Again, assuming you're in college.
Let's just say you and your friends partied hard at your flat one weekend. A real weekender, Sunday night arrives with your place a pigpen of whiskey and beer bottles, ashtrays, other assorted paraphernalia, pizza boxes, and so on. So, what's a college guy to do? Sit down and cry and get overwhelmed? or just start at one and, and pick up until you get to the other?
That's how you solve most things in life. The problem is when we let stuff get ahead of us and get overwhelmed by the size.
You can drip water steadily onto granite and slowly wear it down, did you know that? That's more often than not how you do life: get skills for a job, pay off debts, even clean up the flat after a weekend's fun and a headache to prove it.
Life is full of taking chances. College is by far a gamble, and college alone does not guarantee you a job. Even though it does put a person at an advantage in some fields, it still does not mean that you have a better chance of getting a job, because there are several people probably trying to compete for the same job that you are trying to get as well. However, this should not be an end-all hope excuse.
I tried college and found that the degree I went for did not work for me, because first of all, it was boring to me, and secondly, it didn't really have anything to do with what it was I wanted to do. I was going for business management but I want to be an orientation and mobility teacher. It sounds pretty obvious to most people that the two don't match up, but the way it works is you just need a Batchelor's degree in whatever you want, and you can get in to a Master's program where you will specialize in teaching cane travel. I didn't have much guidance when it came to picking a major. I was basically just told to pick a major and get going with college, which in turn ended in disaster. But thankfully, I have an opportunity to participate in an apprenticeship program and become certified to teach. Some places will not take me because they require the teacher have a degree, but again it is not a reason to say this is the end-all.
There are two reasons whyI am where I am now. The first is that I have networked with several people in the field, and the second is because of hours of research I did on my own. We are in a time now where those two things are easily accessible, and I guarantee that if you make as many connections with people and do plenty of research, you will be in a great spot. You will be recognized for that. Bob is right on in sayin that your attitude plays a huge part in everything too. Even if it is hard and hopeless, you still have to have hope and keep looking ahead. Don't dwell on set backs because life will be full of them. The strong and successful overcome the set backs