I’m currently an online assistant professor of psychology and I’m about to start a second online teaching position teaching the more philosophical/fringe areas of psychology (near death experiences, parapsychology, etc.). I’m also finishing up my M.Ed. in special education and will be teaching English at a private school for kids with psychiatric disabilities. With that being said, I have plans to get my PsyD and/or EdD and LPC and work online 100% of the time in academia.

I was a very versatile programmer with 10% of visual acuity before losing my sight completely 5 years ago. What I loved about it, and what I sold to the companies that hired me as well as to their clients, was my potential to create great things out of nothing and realize their ideas. Nowadays blindness gets in the way of my versatility and independence so while I can still code I no longer do it professionally.

I used to do police/EMS dispatching. I worked for the campus police at the university where I attended school and had also done it for a few years prior to that for the local search and rescue back home.

Dispatching for SAR was more interesting than dispatching for law enforcement, because I was also a trained $1 for lost persons and drownings and I just really enjoyed the logistics of it all. It felt more hands-on/involved and we were a close-knit group.

I got out of it and went into software development shortly after college, though, because of the higher earning potential and the fact that I could do it from home. Also, I have to admit, my vision loss is less of a factor in this job than it was doing dispatching/IC.

If had my choice of any career, I'd have gone into emergency medicine - but even if I would have been able to do it, I didn't want someone to die because I missed something I couldn't see.

Those years were a lot of fun/really rewarding, though.

For the past 20 years, I've been a software developer and I also really enjoy it, but I may be starting to burn out a bit - but I'm also job hunting right now, so that might just be adding to my mental exhaustion about it all. :P

I love creating real, useful things with my keyboard and my brain.