[Job-Discussions] Career counseling

[Karen Rose]

Hi Chelsea. I am totally blind career counselor and psychotherapist in private practice. I would love to help you if I can. Please feel free to respond to this email and I can give you my phone number. :-) Karen Rose MFT

Karen Rose MFT/LPCC www.career-therapy.net

> On Feb 26, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Chelsea Dye via Job-Discussions <job-discussions at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I don't know if this post is allowed, but I need to speak to someone.
> 
> I'm totally blind, and I'm a college graduate.
> 
> I'm a certified Braille transcriptionist, but I haven't had any work
> in over a year. I had a web site, but no one contacted me for work.
> 
> I currently am a part-time transcriptionist, working my own schedule.
> It's a nice job, but I'm looking for a career.
> 
> I've tried taking those stupid career tests online, but I'm not
> putting any stock in them after the very first result they gave me for
> a possible career was airline pilot, followed closely by elevator
> repairperson, followed by various engineering fields.
> 
> I've worked in a call center for 4 years, and I promised myself I'd
> never do it again.
> 
> I'd like to know where to turn at this point, because I'm not
> satisfied with anything I've tried in the past. I have ideas about
> what I want to do, but nothing's working out. I've considered law
> school, but that's another at least 4 years. I've considered being an
> interpreter, but my language skills aren't good enough, which would
> entail even more education I don't have money for. Same thing with
> political science. I could apply, but my undergraduate GPA isn't good
> enough to get me in.
> 
> I work with my local county board of developmental disabilities, but I
> don't have a support specialist at the moment. The person I tried
> contacting was extremely rude. I'm not working with voc rehab, because
> I've had sub-par experience with them in the past. They're the ones
> that put me up in Cleveland in the first place.
> 
> So if anyone has any advice for me, I'd appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chelsea
> 
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