It is so hard for this disabled senior citizen to find a decent remote job.
I am sixty-eight. I should not have to look for work, but we are on fixed incomes and the prices of everything have been skyrocketing. We were just squeaking by before but now it is hard to stay afloat. And so.
I became disabled in 2002. Since then, I have done volunteer work for the Retired Senior Volunteers Program in two programs and for three or four phone banks. Does that really count for anything? I thought it did, but now it does not seem to be true.
For twenty years, I was an interpreter for the Deaf. I was also a sometime tutor of school subjects for Deaf students and of American Sign Language for beginning interpreters. To supplement my income during slow times, I worked as a market research interviewer/supervisor. I trained new hires.
Before I became a certified interpreter, I was Secretary to the Executive Director of the National Center for Law & the Deaf when it was located at Gallaudet College (now University). I would secretly voice interpret for my boss when he met with Deaf people because his receptive skills were not top notch. He did not fool all the Deaf people. One took me aside and asked why I was making coffee when I should be interpreting.
Before that, I was a unit secretary at the Maryland Rehabilitation Center. My first job was clerk typist for one of the large insurance firms in Baltimore.
You see, I have a lot of experience. I am a very proficient typist and I have worked with MS Office for years as a writer/blogger. I am empathetic and use active listening skills. I make connections with people easily.
I would be an asset to somebody, but employers do not consider me. I have more polite rejection letters from employers than I have from my story submissions.
Too long unemployed?
Too old?
Sucky resume?
There must be an employer out there that would see me as a valuable employee.
