it just seems like it never gets any better. All I want is a job that pays me enough to live with a straight seven in the morning until 4:00 or 5:00 in the evening Monday through Friday schedule.
I just want an honest days pay for an honest day's work. I mean there are jobs out there like that, but when they advertise, my application is getting drowned out in the stack of like 200 other people who are competing for the same damn role. when the hell is the economy going to get better so I could finally get my damn foot in the door? how the hell am I supposed to buy a house when most jobs don't even pay enough to cover rent for a one bedroom apartment? when are we going to get those manufacturing jobs back and transition out of this stupid fucking low-wage service economy? I just keep seeing things getting more and more expensive and I really don't give a shit about all this political fucking theater when at the end of the day I'm still getting squeezed just as hard as I was under Joe Biden.
I'm in the same boat as you. Still haven't started my career in I.T. since graduating college and getting a couple of certs and like you, my application keeps getting drowned in the sea of hundreds of other applications. I'm getting worried because of my age and my skills are already out of date. I would have kept up with my skills but back then, I thought it was pointless cuz I'm also deaf and it seem like companies are not hiring me because I'm deaf. I would expand on this but this is beyond the scope of the discussion.
I'm just hoping President Trump et al, will have a plan that will help every legal American citizens financially wise, including REAL job assistance, not the ones I got through vocational rehabilitation cuz they are useless. (Quick story: I asked vocational rehabilitation for job assistance and they found me a job interview at Target, which is 1 hour and half away from where I live. I told them I'm not driving back and forth every day just so to spend the majority of my paychecks in gas alone. They closed my case soon after and they didn't even warn me ahead that I may have to relocate. I do understand relocating but not for a Target job tho).
I've been thinking positive here but it's hard, especially with my status as a deaf person and people keep "discriminating" me because I've always felt that people equates deaf people to mentally retarded people as they would be condescending when talking to me like, "You're a good boy, that's good! I'm surprised you can do something like that!"
Work for the govt,they need to hire handicapped people. And will have no problem accommodating you,at the right place.
Look on USA JOBS.
I applied to a few, including the NSA and they said I needed experience, despite the job description saying no experience required. I feel like there's a sign above me, invisible to me but visible to everyone else, saying, "This guy is good but don't hire him for whatever reason lol" cuz I feel like Life is playing a lifelong joke on me.
Keep looking and applying and take any job you can get,internal promotion and transfers are pretty easy. They pretty much have to hire a certain percentage of handicapped people. And they will not discriminate from what I have seen. Their was a deft guy at work and they sent some of his co workers to school to learn sign language to interpret for him,and then made him a work leader,to make themselves look good.....
I don't know if it will help or not, but have a look at this link. I asked Grok for some help and ideas.
Also - are there any "schools for the deaf" close to you, or are there clusters of kids around you that are deaf? You could always tutor or substitute teach to bring money in while you work on getting a better job.
I used to be really good friends with a girl in high school that was not deaf but the rest of her family was. All of them that went to college (including my friend) went to Gallaudet University in DC. I lost track with her when I went into the USAF, but I thought of her when I saw your post. I know one of her sisters had problems getting a job, but unfortunately I don't know what eventually happened.
Hopefully the couple of questions I asked Grok give you some info you didn't have - good luck!
Haven't looked at the link but I will soon, but just a quick reply to your comment.
Over 70% of deaf people in America are unemployed or already working at jobs that pay less and isn't what they went to college for. Over 90% of deaf friends I knew from college, are either unemployed or working below minimum wage jobs (or commission based jobs) but they are struggling big time. One of my friends are working 3 jobs just to support his family on top of his wife already working at the school for the deaf as a math teacher, which doesn't pay well. He majored in Graphics Design and he's really, really good at what he does, yet no one wanted to hire him.
To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if your friend's sister is also struggling to find a job, but I hope for her sake, she did get a job and pays well.
Yes there's one School for the Deaf which is 2 hours south of where I live but according to my wife who's from this state and other deaf people here, that school isn't a good school and has a lot of stigmas. A lot of people got hired then fired a few months later so I'd rather not take a chance working there.
Thanks and I will look at the link soon.
I worked with a deaf electrician, he was a great journeyman. Also worked with a colorblind electrician, that was kinda scary considering he'd have to ask the difference between purple and gray wires (high voltage).