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.
Pardon my sudden idea, but: When in doubt, write a book. A good book will sell. A novel? A textbook? A travelogue? A manifesto?
If one communication mode is shut off for you, use the one that you are good at, which does not require speech: writing. Your comment is very well spoken. Easy to read.
Or, write copiously for a lively readership, such as science fiction short stories. The readers don't care if you are deaf. They don't even care if you are terrestrial. There are about 3 major monthly magazines that publish SF short fiction. A running series on a common character has always been popular. I think there is a similar readership for detective stories. That was how Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler got their fame. (Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive. From him we got Philip Marlowe, the famous noir detective.)
If you know anyone who is a talented graphic artist, you might strike up a collaboration to obtain illustrations for stories. This leads to the idea of writing scenario and dialogue for comic books (but I have to say that I doubt there is much craft in the comic books of today).
I'll leave it at that. I just wanted to perk you up with a possibility that may not have crossed your mind.