VI Legally blind here

I have a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications I can troubleshoot and repair anything. I spent two years in college and volunteered in robotics clubs and university teams. Could not get any job in those industries without a class 3.

The only steady employers I've had were call centers and that industry is shrinking as AI filters all inbound contact and apps take the place of direct customer service. All CSRs are exclusively chat support and sales driven roles.

This may sound like the stereotypical answer, but message therapist or private home care aid.
Look at the negative birth rate around the world and upside down pyramid it's causing demographically. The largest demand now and for decades to come is in roles supporting the previous generations who are no longer in the workforce but have greatly more acumulated asset wealth than subsequent generstions.

Tell me. What are these jobs YOU think are cool?

How about some customer care thing? It is a techy kind of job, but not that hard. Look in to disability rehab organizations in your area, they can also help.

And yeah, wish if blind people got some jobs in military. Not with guns and stuff, but with computers may be. And, nope, I don't want to kill anyone with computers or anything.

Very good question, I haven't ever found that job. I've done market research which was pretty accessible. Assembly line stuff in a factory was super duper boring, but somewhat easy and accessible. Dishes can be accessible as well. I'm a social worker now and find it pretty accessible, but super awkward at times lol, but a crap ton of positions in this field have a driver's license requirement.

I'm a software engineer. One of my co-workers is blind and he's our security analyst. Those both take a decent bit of training/education. They're six-figure careers, though.

I have another blind friend who is a writer that works for a big online magazine. She freelanced and shopped around articles for a long time before that. The only qualification you really need there is to be a good writer who's willing to put in the work, and it helps to be really good at selling yourself.

I once knew a blind women who worked as a dispatcher for the state police. I did some dispatching for a few years when I was. younger, too. It's not a difficult job to learn, nor is it particularly difficult to do, but it can be stressful at times and people's lives often depend on you not screwing up your job. Depending on what you're doing (law enforcement vs. fire & medical vs. all three combined, etc.) there are some certifications you need and continuing education hours you need to maintain, but at least here, it's training you do after you're hired, so you're doing it during work hours and being paid.

I dispatched for search & rescue for a couple years (super fun). Then I switched to law enforcement for a bit. I really enjoyed it, but there's an income ceiling that you hit pretty quickly. It's enough to get by on and it was steady and predictable hours, usually with retirement benefits.

Why not start up a business? Get into a hobby and make it a supplemental thing until you figure out what you want to do? Lots of people are selling services like editing, essay writing, you name it. There has to be something you are good at?

What about some honest quiet self introspection.


Go through something like the mbti or enneagram or socionics or holland code and really think about you then kind of think through things you have done get to know yourself and then decide.

In my first year at uni I had a side job as a project assistant in e-accessibility. My qualification was basically being blind and have a good basic understanding of computer stuff and assistive technologies. I think there‘s not a lot of such positions, though.