A Question For Those Employed: How Hard is Your Job, Really?

I’m an equal opportunity employer. If you’re a good tractor driver and have unlimited text that works on my farm then you’re hired after your drug test. Well I do not think seeing eye dogs work with tractors ;-). If I do hire you my 15 year old daughter would be your supervise when she’s not in school.

Now for how hard is my job. I work in temps from -12 to 101. Depending on the time of year I work from 3 to 19 hours a day. Sometimes my work is thinking and some times its manual labor.
 
It's been a very long time since I've posted here. I hope some of ya'll remember me as the Deaf girl who's husband was mean to me. Good news, he isn't anymore. My dad got involved and things have been much better.

As for my job, I work at an animal clinic been there for nine years. Started when I was 17 and I am still in the same position. I'm the "janitor". It's a pretty easy job but I feel it limits me greatly. I'm the only Deaf person there. I would love to be trained to be a vet tech but I have given up trying to get my foot in the door. I am so jealous of everyone else's jobs!

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My job ... I'm a Courtesy Clerk ... I bag groceries, bring in karts, clean, ect. I have been wanting to move up; they know I want to move up too. I think the reason why its hard for me to move up is because my fiancee also works there.

Most of the people I work with know that I am HoH. If I am not at the front of the store and they need me, they will use the intercom; that I don't always hear. Sometimes my supervisor will tell me to do something on my right side (which I am deaf in) and it gets me frustrated when I am with a customer. It makes me turn around to ask them to repeat what they said. I hate turning my back on customers; it makes me feel rude. Maybe they just forget? IDK.

Other than that, my job is easy for the most part. Not hard at all. :) I have been there for almost a year now. I like the people that I work with too, they are all nice :)
 
I had my job before and.. no, it was not really hard for me. I got along with workers and my boss & former bosses pretty well. I really enjoy my job. :)
 
My job is very easy. 1% of the job involves teleconferencing, but I've been waived from participating since someone in the teleconference types up the report of what happens in the meeting and emails everyone. What is shared in the meeting is pretty much common sense and already shared from my supervisor days to weeks before. :)

My other jobs in the past have also been easy too. I've had a few challenging moments, but as long as I looked at myself as that particular role I was taking... I was able to follow through. :)
 
Hard - well, I do a lot of lifting, bending, and lots of sitting! It requires a chair with an "eject" though!
I work as a university mail room clerk. It is getting a bit more difficult as the hearing continues to go. The job requires quite a bit of customer contact. A few students are learning basic signs. Yay! I want an envelope, stamp, etc is pretty easy. What's your mail box #? Well, their answers can seem pretty funny! We lost our only interpreter this year, and we have only one student who signs fluently (much better than me). He is awesomely helpful!
It can be very difficult in some seasons, that is physically. It is emotionally stressful most always. Mostly I do the books, like what to charge each department for their mails, and recording it. I prefer questions by emails, but it has some phone use that is nearly impossible if the speaker has a soft voice or if the mail machine (meter) is running.
We are running a small staff for a large client base.
The boss is not understanding and our student helpers are not so great at understanding either.
Good things are benefits!! Ok insurance and time off.
I would like to be home for a while, but must stay for benefits, pay is ok.
 
I currently have two jobs. My FT job is as a Senior Teller at a community bank. My PT job is at a veterinary hospital.

My FT job is not hard in an of itself. The most difficult part is the fact that it is basically customer service, and being hoh can make communication difficult at times. My employer has been great, though. They ordered me a special handset for the phone, because I couldn't hear on our regular phones, and they offered to take down the glass that divides the customers and tellers if that would help me. They also are happy to take over a phone call if I cannot understand the customer on the line.

My PT job is sometimes hard, sometimes easy. At the hospital, my official position is Animal Care Specialist. Basically, I primarily work in the boarding hospital. Except in peak periods (summer, school vacation weeks) when we are booked solid, it's not hard as in difficult to do, but it is still tiring work. At our hospital, our kennel staff is also utilized as technician assistants, backup receptionists and some can also be called on to to tech work. I get called on by the technicians whenever there is a particularly difficult pet to handle. I am very often requested to restrain the most difficult dogs and cats. I find this to be the most difficult part of my job because I cannot let technicians or doctors get bitten/scratched. And some of the pets that come in can be quite nasty, but you can't have any fear or you (or someone else) will get hurt.
 
like Stephen Hlibok said at a Gallaudet forum years ago, think yourself as a professional, not as a deaf professional.
 
Nika said:
Also this post does not exclude hearing and HoH members from the question.
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Thanks.

I'm a Staff Assistant for U.S. Courts. I do alot of editing documents, checking for misspelling, answering phone calls and directing to the correct departments. I also keep reciepts of purchase and call our vendors when one of our (old as dirt) machines breaks down. Lots of copying, faxing, running errands and other things too boring and routine to mention. It's not a hard job by any stretch of the imagination.
 
I am hearing, I worked for 25 years then I quit my job of a bookkeeper/assistant fiscal officer. I worked in an accouting department for that long. I did payroll, coded the payroll, did deposits, receipts, wrote checks for the whole agency. Did reports. There was alot to do for the non-profit organization. I also did taxes on the side in the evenings after work, I stayed at work late at nights when needed to. I worked on weekends, I was paid a salary, never paid for any over time I worked. Now I still do taxes and I baby sit, since I quit that job, I am less stressed and happier. My husband is the one that is deaf so I do alot of the communication for him as I did when I worked.
 
Im culturally Deaf since birth and is working for Kaiser Permanente as a Senior Desktop Analyst in Information Technology.

My position requires me to manage at least 300,000 desktops, laptops and biomedical equipments in Active Directory and other tools, managing user accounts, remote access via VPN/SSL, Administers with Blackberry Enterprise servers, data recovery from encrypted hard disk drives and facilitating 'hands up' meeting in weekly basis.

Also, we do UAT on hardware and software that was engineered and/or packaged readying for production use.

Luckily for me, Kaiser Permanente had done their best in accommodating my disability by providing me access to the Internet via PIX firewall, meaning I make 2 to 4 hours of video calls per day to Hands On VRS.

The downside of this job:
1/ Hard to follow what my colleagues had been talking in time of high or critical incidents. They tend to be over active and talks too fast.
2/ Team meetings I use the VRS to sign into a meeting bridge remotely, sometimes they often talk all at once, forgetting all about me and my 'rules' Hence I had to enforce them from time to time.
3/ Nurses, doctors, assistants and office employees at Kaiser Permanente didnt want to believe that I am Deaf and using the VRS. They often tend to work their way past me and move to another colleagues. I find this quite offending but had to deal with it and is nature of my job.
 
All I can say is that I am enjoying my new job. Very hard and demanding, unfortunately it comes with clients that can be "problematic".

Oh well--their problem, not mine.

Perks are great too! :)
 
It's quite fascinating to see how hard their jobs are. My job is hard enough already being website manager looking after photography and product lines for a retailing company. I manage a team of 4 and they all do their jobs well. It's the other people who work their way past me to discuss their issue with my team and my team redirect them back to me. Which is great, I have to tell them that my disability is not an issue where the problem is concerned as most of it can be done by the computer with relevant skills lol.

I love my job but not my previous job where I was a E-HR computer tester and my boss being Portuguese spoke to me in a such manner that I did not pick up until I received new HA's that I could hear the difference and it was really demeaning so I changed my jobs when she refused to change the way she spoke to me despite my colleagues telling me that she was treating me in a such way. I reported her to my other boss, she was sent to a disability course and was made redundant. My other boss was sad to lose me cos I was an 'asset' to the company....
 
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