Had a job interview with the NSA but they were somewhat apprehensive with hiring a deaf person. This was like a few years after 9/11 happened and at the time, I kinda felt like I understood their stance because they need to be able to rely on hearing people rather than taking the time to communicate with a deaf person, which could delay stuff.

As of recently, yes I have with several military bases and a few gov't buildings but nope. This was with the job placement coach I mentioned in my post but it could be because of the state I live in, but I have no idea. Yes I'm aware that gov't tend to hire people with disabilities but I have no idea why they're skipping me, despite the fact that my former co-workers at the retail job I had for a few years, said I'm the best worker they've seen in over 20 years and I chug out on an average of 10 computers a week (computer repair) and have excellent repair percentage (the chances of a computer coming back for further repair or still have same issue prior to it being checked in is very low).

I even was asked by the headquarters of my employer, to go to another store to do a disaster recovery to save the department from being overflown. In that week alone, I was able to get about 100 computers out and pretty much saved the department from getting the whole staff fired. It was just me and one supervisor from another store in different state and that supervisor kept telling me to move to their state to work for him because he have never seen anyone like me before.

My point in saying what I've just said, was that I've said the same stuff to them over email and in a rare occurrence, an interview I went to, yet they don't think I'm a good fit for their company. So I don't know what I did wrong. I wasn't even nervous. I believe I sounded confident during the emails and the few interviews I went on. This is why I still believe all of this goes back to me being deaf because I know how people can be apprehensive toward hiring someone who can't speak verbally and relies on using Notepad/TextEdit (micro word processing program on Windows/MacOS respectively) to communicate. The former coworkers I had, had zero issues doing that. Matter of fact, they enjoy doing that than talking because other people can overhear the conversations.

Anyways, thanks man, I will try job hunting again, once this stupid "pandemic" is over and I hope very soon because I don't want to wait 2-3 years then it'll be too late for me. Also I'm limited to a certain geographical location, which means relocating to a different state on the other side of America or the world is out of the question for me. The NSA and even the Microsoft interviews I went on, I was testing the water to see how well I will do at the interviews. They paid for my trip and all that to NSA in Maryland and to Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't get hired because NSA... yikes and Microsoft, nah too woke for me now.