Deaf Woman Faces Daycare Catch-22
Friday January 1, 2010
A deaf woman on the forum has two challenges when looking for a job, and the bigger challenge is daycare. First, she is trying to find an administrative job, but says the jobs require use of the phone. Nothing new. But her bigger problem is daycare. She can not get help finding employment until she puts her young son into daycare; but she needs a job to pay for the daycare in the first place. If you have any ideas around either or both of these problems, reply to Victoria on the forum.
Welcome to the real world. All women have that problem, not just you. My suggestion; go to PACE and see if you can get them to pay daycare while you look for a job. Or enlist family while you look. Or lock the kid in the car while you apply for jobs. Just kidding on my last suggestion.
If you work for a Federal gov’t agency, you will get some discount for a day care!
Try going to Goodwill Industries and see if they have a job placement service in your area. That’s what I did and eventually got an administrative job, even though I am too hearing impaired. Some Goodwill Industry chapters have job assistance, I’m talking jobs not part of the Goodwill stores, and they work with local business owners to place those like us with disabilities. I sympathize with your plight to find a job in administrative work, I had to look a year before I found a company that would hire me. It is a real shame that employers use “phone” tasks as excuses not to hire those of us who are hearing impaired. They really don’t realize how much work is put out by those of us without phone distractions or getting distracted by noisy co-workers. Our productivity often puts hearing folks to shame. Best of luck in your search.