Possible job careers for infp?

Sherlyn

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Hello, my name is Sherlyn and I'm 20. Right now, im struggling to decide what career is suitable for me but I don't really have a career that I want or like in mind. However, I do know that being hearing impaired reduces my chance of getting certain jobs. E.g. Teaching.

Are there any INFP personalities or anyone who struggle the same dilemma or have any advice on what job career you have or recommend??

I really need the help because I'm so lost in life:(
 
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I don't think you should be lost. Right now you are hoh, which shouldn't hold you back. But yes their are jobs that d/Deaf people can't "hold". Call center worker is a good example. But teaching is not. I am getting my teaching degree and my microbiologist degree and I am severe to profoundly hard of hearing (depending on day and how my eardrums are placed). I have a friend who is deaf and he is a dealer at a casino.
Being deaf doesn't limit your job choice, only you can do that.
 
being deaf is nothing to me... i work for a company in 26 years and going to be 27. i m profoundly deaf and don't wear the hearing aids to face the customers everyday all day long. i don't have a perfect lipreading but i always make a deal to read the lips or have them to write down. Job is my good challenge to work at for many years which is succeeded. See that DEAF can do anything except, cannot use the phone. People at my work loves me dearly because i showed that i can do anything.
 
Well, with the last two as being __FP, you may need find a job that have no deadline, or meeting a deadline. This is very common that everyone having a hard time deciding what jobs are best for everyone. You are not lost, it's more of not knowing where to start...to hit the right path for your career goal. Don't focus too much because of you are being hearing impaired, just think what you can do regardless any shape, size or disability. Ask yourself a question, what you like to do everyday? Hope that help and I'm INTJ by the way.
 
I agree with the above.. focus on what you like to do or are interested in. There are ways to accommodate your deafness today and better than in years past.

My degree was in education but I never got a job as a teacher- not because I am deaf but because I discovered.. I didn't like it once I got some "real world" experience in my practicum. boy...

I am also quite a bit of an introvert. Interestingly my first job was working with intellectually disabled kids and adults- those who were also deaf or non-verbal. Later became a case manager. After that job i got into the IT field which suited me a LOT better.
 
I agree with the above.. focus on what you like to do or are interested in. There are ways to accommodate your deafness today and better than in years past.

My degree was in education but I never got a job as a teacher- not because I am deaf but because I discovered.. I didn't like it once I got some "real world" experience in my practicum. boy...

I am also quite a bit of an introvert. Interestingly my first job was working with intellectually disabled kids and adults- those who were also deaf or non-verbal. Later became a case manager. After that job i got into the IT field which suited me a LOT better.

May I ask how was it like working with Special Education kids? Just curious as I'm looking into it as well
 
Thank you for your kind advices!

Well, with the last two as being __FP, you may need find a job that have no deadline, or meeting a deadline. This is very common that everyone having a hard time deciding what jobs are best for everyone. You are not lost, it's more of not knowing where to start...to hit the right path for your career goal. Don't focus too much because of you are being hearing impaired, just think what you can do regardless any shape, size or disability. Ask yourself a question, what you like to do everyday? Hope that help and I'm INTJ by the way.

You said what was on my mind :\ The problem is I don't know where to start.. and I never really found something I loved to do. I do agree that I'm quite bad with deadlines though.
 
May I ask how was it like working with Special Education kids? Just curious as I'm looking into it as well

Hmm well...

In my undergrad practicum I worked with a variety- the only one I remember the most is that I worked at the Gallaudet Day Care center (whatever the name is now or if it's still there)...there was actually a mix of hearing and deaf kids- toddler group, 3 year old, 4 year old.. 5 year old. I started in the the oldest group.. that didn't go well (as luck would have it- one of the kids was the director's kid...), then I moved to the 4 year olds... somewhat better but not much. It was a challenge. Hard to create lesson plans and think on their level. I also spent some time visiting a friend of mine's classroom (degree was Child Development and taught I think 4-5 year olds?). In observing my friend was a whole lot better at it than I was.

In my graduate year (just year 1), I had practicums working with KDES kids (I think it was KDES) who were in a self contained classroom, deaf + other disability- mainly MR (okay..ID...), spring time I went to a public school that had a class for deafblind kids under 5. I actually liked that class in working with the kids individually but I had other issues going on that year that kind of interfered with how well I could have done.

Work- the kids & adults I worked with lived in a residential facility (or what one in the distant past would have called an "institution"...). With them like with school aged kids you had to set up a IPP Individualized Personal Plan (or similar)...including communication goals, behavior goals (if they had serious behaviors), self care goals and so on. A lot of times those goals can overlap as well so you have to be aware of that. Incorporate everything and also remember that every kid/adult learns in a different way and speed. Some may never but I've seen many do okay and able to improve in some areas (one memory that pops out is one profound level adult going from diapers to going to the bathroom on his own at certain times of the day, then I think later on his own when prompted or asked.

Special Education is truly a challenge and within that umbrella term you can specialize sort of in which disability you'd like to work with- deaf, deafblind, autistic, physically disabled, intellectually disabled.

I don't know if that helps or not but I can say for me I ended up getting burned out due to many reasons one of which I couldn't do more for the clients I had than I wanted to. It's taxing but one of my co-workers said that it's rewarding for her. She put it best once... said that she knew from the age of around 13 she wanted to work with that population while for me it seems like I just happened into the job (more or less true- I took it after a year of hunting). IT ended up being my passion.
 
Hmm well...

In my undergrad practicum I worked with a variety- the only one I remember the most is that I worked at the Gallaudet Day Care center (whatever the name is now or if it's still there)...there was actually a mix of hearing and deaf kids- toddler group, 3 year old, 4 year old.. 5 year old. I started in the the oldest group.. that didn't go well (as luck would have it- one of the kids was the director's kid...), then I moved to the 4 year olds... somewhat better but not much. It was a challenge. Hard to create lesson plans and think on their level. I also spent some time visiting a friend of mine's classroom (degree was Child Development and taught I think 4-5 year olds?). In observing my friend was a whole lot better at it than I was.

IT ended up being my passion.

Thank you for the insight. I believe i want to look for something that rewards me. It's ironic because I'm studying IT now but I really hate it. It takes a lot more work for me and I get burnt out so easily.
 
Heh yes irony as I found that I am not a people person and would hate to be around people all day. I love kids but disliked teaching. At least with IT I can spend more time alone barring meetings ( necessary evil).
 
You could go to Gally and be a teacher of the Deaf!

I don't know how it's set up now but Early Childhood doesn't necessarily focus on deaf or multihandicapped. I think Elementary and Secondary Education they do focus on deaf education a bit more but really the BA level is or was 'general education'.

Specialization shows up in the Master's program more so than on the BA level. I did one year at the MA level in the Education of the Multi-handicapped Hearing Impaired. Yes I know that's all kinds of wrong but this was in the 80. The degree name probably has changed since then.
 
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