If you have a bank account, you should have a coupleĪ day to day savings account and an investment account they call it. Payments were with cash or fuel cards or supermarket vouchers only but still. If you take the 25-30 bucks for transport and 10-20 for food they may have been paying for with the previous job thats actually a major sum. That was like that way with the last job to, until hr decided that it was a skilled job and so it went up to 100 bucks per hour with 40-50 bucks overtime. Granted it was only around 100 but the usual technition fee for my kind of work is 25 bucks per hour which isn’t to bad. Initial project went for 2 years and at the end of that, last year the team was restarted again and I recieved my first paycheck. I had to fill in first come first served. The deadline was that day, should have been that day. I recieved a brief message from a government test team rep that basically said one of their main testers got some malware which fried their network and had to withdraw. My next jobs involved me subscribing to a blind organisation list for technology. Most of the time I don’t even see the reports. Solving bugs on the fly is a pluss, but for a job its really just data input. Sitting in a interesting position while working and wearing devices, often emerced in liquid, the tiredness, and the fact I tend to eat more than I would usually eat even though I am only using my brain is a concern. No cellphones or electronics due to security and shielding. That wasn’t the greatest thing, its 1-3 hours grind twice a year and while good I couldn’t see me taking this on as a full time slog.ĭata entry even high payed data entry with the transport and lunch chucked in, varying teams, a cool as boss and the chance to work with supercomputers and large data tablets has its drawbacks. She put me in touch with a guy who was related to one of her tutors, and this got me into government research. My first job started with me ringing a friend and saying I was bored because I didn’t have one and wanted to do tech stuff. In this world its not adverts anyway its who you know and where you can go. I am not saying its easy, but I have had better success up front with organisations.Įvery time I complete a contract I end with the fact I’d still like more. I doubt the standard people that recruit will care about your blindy past and blindy activities no matter how impressive.ĭirectly emailing those you know or contacts in organisation or directly responding and engaging with the companies themselves will. I say delete, then they ask me to pay cash and charge my account and I say delete and they go away. Third party agencies let me down to many times to be of any real use.Īnd when they half worked things half worked to.Īnd when they failed they went into program loops eventually asking you to pay cash to them. I am unsure if your blindness profile doing blindy things for blindy people ever applies to the mainstream.įor me your best bit is to put direct feelers out and look. Your photo applies if you have a sightling to take it and give it for you then dropbox it and keep it with you. Your qualifications and experience applies if you have either. This is a guide for job seekers to get noticed.įor us as blind people videos etc don’t really apply unless you want one. Tweet Comments (0) comments for this week
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