Hearing aids & sales work

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Hi all,

I'm currently finalizing my marketing studies at the university and thus moving little by little to work life. However, I'm bit concerned about my hearing loss and my capabilities to get along in the working environment. In the future, my work would include selling and customer service both on phone and face to face. Therefore, I'd like to know how would I get along in this kind of working environment with my hearing aids? At this moment, I have a mild hearing loss and sometimes I have difficulties to identify some consonants on phone. Maybe hearing aids would help me on this issue.
 
using the phone was always a fear for me. I relied on hearing aids and never knew how well I would hear the next phone call. I worked for an international company and had people phoning me from all over the world. sometimes they would have strong accents, or they would speak too quickly, or too quietly.

hearing aid technology has come a long way though, most have a direct audio input option, many now with bluetooth capabilities, and even phones (android) have apps that can adjust the tones to help people HOH to hear better.

using bluetooth or direct audio was usually a very clear connection and i could adjust the volume if needed. when talking face to face, people could see i wore hearing aids, if i did not understand something they usually didn't mind speaking up.

i would see what your audi has to say and see where your hearing loss is at
 
I agree with the guy above me, I myself have a progressive hearing loss and a streamer is always a good option if you're going 4 new hearing aids!
 
Many thanks for your answers! Nice to hear that the hearing aid technology has evolved so long. I'm going to check my hearing again on next year. Then we'll see do I really need the hearing aids. If I'll need them, I may buy the streamer as well.
 
While hearing level starts declining, I still recommend grab the chance to learn sign language. After all, most old people start losing their hearing anyways.

I've worked volunteer in a Deaf nursing home with few hearing residents there. Sometimes I think the Deaf residents were a little more active and keeping busy than the hearing residents. Even if I had to hear the repeat stories or slightly diifferent version of "Back in my day...." stories -- it just had me wondering hardly ever see them complain about arthritis at their age.. So yea, signing is a good exercise for life on the hand and eye coordination. Even if it has to be dangerous poking ourselves wrong way or send glasses flying off our faces! ;)
 
I was in sales. It got to the point that I couldn't hear on the phones any longer. The company put in a new phone system and it wasn't compatible with my system. That and other things just led me to the decision to "retire". I'm fine one on one but even sitting in meetings I could only understand a portion of what was going on. If there were any fans, HVAC systems, etc. in the room, forget it. Technology has come a long way in the past few years but it's still not perfect.
 
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