Looking at many options from now to the future because my puzzling injury has been not diagnosis prior to the waiting list from January 2016. I have been told by my GP that the nurse of Neurology department that it may come between mid-August to September last week. Blast – my project in garden planning is on hold because it is in late winter to Spring and it is a good time to start working on the second stage of our garden project in our home. The other problem is one of two workplaces where I am working, is not 100% to the decision of closing down or where I will be going…
I am starting looking for a job in order to earn extra income for our home, garden project and bills. There are no luck of finding jobs and many applicants I applied have been turned down. What a disappointed for me! Too many call centre where there are data entry, accounting in payable/receivable, bookkeeping and so on. That is a barrier for me because I am unable to hear the phone which I don’t need to answer the phone. Speaking over the counter is not a problem as a frontline and in the past where I used to work as a Bank officer for BNZ and I spoke to many customers over the counter. The customers were aware of my deafness and they don’t have the problem with it.
I read an interesting article from Huffington Post last week and it was about ‘a wonderful opportunity’ for Deaf employees to work in Starbucks Cafe in US. It opened up many people who don’t know about people with disabilities or not aware of our skill to communicate and the abilities to work as an equal opportunity in many work places. I posted the article for you to read it.
Today we have a several Deaf cafès that runs by the Deaf Employees or partnerships with the largest business to support them. Here are a couple of the examples in Wellington
http://www.hotelwellington.co.nz/accessibility
http://www.co-ed.co.nz/http://www.co-ed.co.nz/
There are more than 8 Deaf cafès and restaurants around the world and they are spreading their news about their skills and abilities for everyone to communicate with them. The Deaf people are talking about their rights to work as an equal opportunity to everyone in the world.
I have been thinking of setting up a garden project or horticulture tutor in teaching Deaf people/people with learning disabilities even a tutor in literacy & numeracy for Deaf adult in the Waikato area. There is one place which provide for the Deaf community and it is a community garden under Grandview Community Garden. They are learning and supportive to us. BUT the main problem is funding and income for me to generate to establish the business to run or to find a business as a partnership with me.
This year my injury forces me to restrict from activity in the garden and working in the city of Hamilton. It was really frustrating that my garden projects has not starting up yet and I managed to do weeding, fencing and light pruning along with my partner during the weekend. It is a very limited of time for me to do gardening and the need of recovering before working in the city of Hamilton.
mmmm Where will I go from there?
- to continue to find job and earn income
- to continue to write books on Deaf History, Hamilton Deaf Units and my biography
- to continue to research in Deaf History
- to continue some of the garden projects from time to time
- to continue to make Deaf Adult literacy and numeracy in NZSL (video and materials)
- the lists so on…….
Life in Eureka 