What is a good job for someone who is hearing impaired?

I have been wearing hearing aids since I was 30, I am now 43 and searching for a job that will be more %26quot;friendly%26quot; to my hearing impairment.


Anyone have any suggestions? I was a 911 dispatcher until my hearing got worse. So I have medical/ fire/ and law enforcement training.|||You can basically do anything that does not require a phone. I%26#039;m hearing impaired also, and as long as I steer clear of jobs requiring long phone hours (i.e. 911 dispatcher like your past position, customer service rep, telemarketer) I%26#039;ve never had a problem. I%26#039;ve worked in a variety of different positions, industries, and settings, and the key is just making sure that you are up front with your supervisor and anyone else you feel needs to know.





Every single supervisor I%26#039;ve had has offered to work with me to ensure I have the tools to perform my job to the best of my abilities, hearing impairment or not.To avoid any discrimination on the basis of disability, employers are bound by law to provide you with reasoanble accommodation. For instance, my supervisor reviews conference calls with me after the fact (in a very respectful way) to ensure nothing was missed. Also, I primarily use email to communicate and am exempt from all those %26quot;pick up the phone and talk to someone instead of impersonally emailing them%26quot; lectures. :-)





Basically, you can do anything. Follow your passions and be up front about your hearing impairment - that%26#039;s the best advice I have.|||Have you considered creating a website about a subject that you enjoy and know a thing or two about? My wife and I have been running a few websites for about a year and are amazed at the results.





Basically you bulid a website with good/valuable information. People find your website when they are looking for the information you have written about. You make money when the seeker clicks your ads (from Google) or clicks/buys other things that are on your site (called Affiliate sales.)





To brainstorm the website idea, determine profitability, easily build the website, and optimize the web pages to get traffic we used a special web-based tool. The tool walks you through every step of the process with both video and text instructions. Its pretty amazing. You can see an example monthly commission check at the site below which is actually now out of date and lower than what we get now.





The website subjects we chose are surprisingly simple. Also, there are apparently people making 10x what we are earning on our site. Again, its amazing.





Check it out:|||see if you could do like the paperwork end of that job.