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Well paying, active jobs? (self.Blind)
submitted by BeforeSides
Anyone do outdoor style work? I’m currently working in IT and just wanting a change of pace. Sitting in a cube for 8 hours a day is killing me. I’m 28, fit, and love the outdoors, working out, martial arts, being active… just using my body. I’d love to be more active and able to work with my hands and move around more, though my biggest concern is going from a nice $70k salary to a lower paying job. Anyone have ideas on what would still pay well but that lets me get around and use my body more?
niamhweking 3 points 1y ago
What are your hobbies? Fitness/gym instructor? Working in an abseiling/zipline/zorbing Park?
In Ireland there is vision sports, a charity that organises sport for vi/blind. It has also started to train coaches to adapt their lessons for vi/blind participants.
In Ireland there is vision sports, a charity that organises sport for vi/blind. It has also started to train coaches to adapt their lessons for vi/blind participants.
BeforeSides [OP] 6 points 1y ago
I love just acquiring skills and being resilient and useful. Hobbies are broad. Jiujitsu and wrestling, HAM Radio, lock picking, grilling, tech, making jellies and jams, preserves and shelf stable foods, so on. If it can serve me, my fam, or the community, I’m probably learning, have learned, or plan to learn it.
niamhweking 3 points 1y ago
Are you my spouse! Only jk.
However I would say he just changed career from farming to working locally in a power tool repair place.
No qualifications just years of tinkering.
Could you teach at a local night school, ham radio and lock picking would be handy and a fun hobby for people to learn.
However I would say he just changed career from farming to working locally in a power tool repair place.
No qualifications just years of tinkering.
Could you teach at a local night school, ham radio and lock picking would be handy and a fun hobby for people to learn.
BeforeSides [OP] 3 points 1y ago
Hah! Too funny. As for the teaching idea, I actually taught entry level IT, networking, and cybersecurity concepts for a few years. Transitioned out of it. Teaching is awesome when people are engaged, interested, and putting in the work. But if they’re not, and I can’t really “reach” them to bring them into the fold and help them stay the course… That sucks. Maybe it’s because I was teaching adults making career changes (oh, the irony)? Who knows.
Thanks for the thoughtful idea though. I’ve not thought about a night school sort of thing.
Thanks for the thoughtful idea though. I’ve not thought about a night school sort of thing.
DrillInstructorJan 3 points 1y ago
I was about to say, work at a climbing centre. I love running, but it's not something you can really do alone, and I'm not sure I'd choose to work in a gym where everything is touch screens. Some of the machines aren't really a problem, except when the pin gets stuck in the weights but that's life.
I have climbed on an indoor wall and it seemed pretty doable. You'd learn where all the handholds were pretty fast. I wonder if the insurance people would let you work as an instructor, though. For safety you might need to be able to see what the other person is doing.
Swimming is maybe another option. Personally I'm not that into it because I find when my ears are full of water I can't hear anything, I can't see anything anyway, and there's no points of reference because everything is water. That said I know someone who is really into it despite being almost as blind as I am, so it's a matter of opinion.
My heart belongs to judo, though. It sounds like you are sort of already doing that sort of thing, but if you wanted to branch out into another martial art, that might work. You could lead exercise classes, I lead kata sometimes. You do have to get pretty friendly with other members of the group to find out what they're doing when normally someone could just look, and sometimes that might be awkward.
Dodgeball, although you can only be the target.
I have climbed on an indoor wall and it seemed pretty doable. You'd learn where all the handholds were pretty fast. I wonder if the insurance people would let you work as an instructor, though. For safety you might need to be able to see what the other person is doing.
Swimming is maybe another option. Personally I'm not that into it because I find when my ears are full of water I can't hear anything, I can't see anything anyway, and there's no points of reference because everything is water. That said I know someone who is really into it despite being almost as blind as I am, so it's a matter of opinion.
My heart belongs to judo, though. It sounds like you are sort of already doing that sort of thing, but if you wanted to branch out into another martial art, that might work. You could lead exercise classes, I lead kata sometimes. You do have to get pretty friendly with other members of the group to find out what they're doing when normally someone could just look, and sometimes that might be awkward.
Dodgeball, although you can only be the target.
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