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SORRY, WE’RE NOT HIRING ANY VISIONARIES TODAY
Eventually, I got recruited by someone else. I was doing skincare, and it required a lot less eyesight. However, that, too, started becoming difficult be- cause you need to make eye contact with people. You need to look at their skin. You need to read the labels. It was becoming difficult, and I gave up my career. When I first lost my job as a makeup artist, I had no income and no idea what I would do with my life. I returned to my parents’ house. From there, I had to restart everything.
At the vision impairment center I went to I started networking. I started talk- ing to everybody. I began to be exposed to other people with physical disabil- ities, along with vision impairment. It was a whole new world.
Part of my vision of rehabilitation meant that I had to choose what I wanted to learn. I said I wanted to know everything. The career orientation specialist at the Center helped me find a path and career that was suitable for me.
So we started working together. We tried to develop a resume. We tried to change up the words and make them sound more marketable. This specialist even gave me a course on how to disclose my disability to a future potential employer. But I was uncomfortable and uneasy about it because I felt like a fraud again.
I felt like I was working as a makeup artist. I also thought to myself, I don’t want to have a regular, 9-to-5 job. I don’t want to work at an office. I don’t want to work for someone. I want to work for myself. I want to be my boss. If there’s nothing for me out there, then I’ll create a role for me. I’ll make my title.
This is when I started speaking, and the career specialist made me go through personality tests. She told me, “I don’t need to continue this whole personality test thing with you because I can tell you’re an entrepreneur and you are a natural coach.”
From here, we came up with the idea that I could be a coach for people, spe- cifically for people with visual impairment. They don’t have that type of leader. They don’t have that guidance. I had never heard of such things. We
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