[nabs-l] job advice

[Ashley Bramlett]

Jeff,
Can you  provide more info. I assume you are in high school.
So your work hours are limited. Are you seeking a job at night after school? 
Are you seeking a little weekend job?

Try to do something you're interested in. What skills do you have? Can you 
use the Microsoft office suite and databases?
You can obviously use the computer since you emailed us.

If so, some part time  jobs are working customer service, selling tickets at 
a box office, being one of those survey rep callers, working at mall guest 
services which basically means you answer people's questions at the desk, 
and providing office assistance.

If you do not want to use a pc and you feel you can teach people, tutoring 
children or adults is another good part time job; since you yourself are a 
teen, I recommend tutoring people younger than you which should not be hard 
to find as kids and   nonprofits serving them are numerous.
You could also be a babysitter.

There are many jobs you can do being totally blind. These are just some 
ideas that can be done part time since you are a student. Once you decide a 
career path, I suggest networking with blind professionals in that field. 
You can do most any white collar professional job provided you have good 
grades and usually you need a masters degree and you take certification 
tests. Once that is done and you have internships and references, you  can 
go job hunting. Some jobs I know blind people doing are computer programmer, 
database manager, lawyer, writer, social worker, and pr professional. There 
are others, but this is what I've experienced by meeting people in NFB. Oh, 
and many blind people work in the federal government; this is because they 
have a target  number of people with disabilities to hire.

So these are some ideas. With more specifics, we can help  you figure out 
how you can do the job you want to do.

Unfortunately, many part time teenage jobs are not accessible, so I can see 
why you'd wonder what can you do? We cannot be servers, delivery drivers 
like for Dominos, or in many cases receptionists. These jobs are often 
filled by teens.

Good luck.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jeff Crouch
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:54 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: [nabs-l] job advice

Hi all,
I had a question.
I am 16 and i am looking for a job, now i'm totaly blind, and don't
know what jobs are out there that i could do, at this point i would be
intrested in any job.

thanks

-- 
73
k8tvv
jeff crouch

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