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Originally Posted by Katsunami

I *am* under forty, by a fair bit actually.

I thought that was the case.

However, my poor eyesight often causes people to believe I'm some sort of idiot. In new situations, I can sometimes be slow to act.

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You know what the worst part is?

It's actually in my CV.

"Because of poor eyesight, I am not legally allowed to drive a car."

If people would actually READ THE *ramsay* CV instead of looking for key words only, they would have understood from the beginning, and I would not get job offers for which I find out later that a car is actually required.

Maybe I should also add:

"My eyesight is poor, but I can C# enough to do software engineering."

Maybe I should only talk to recruiters that actually understand that pun.

Well, yeah, that's a start (the competent intelligent recruiters, should they exist).

The more I read from you, the more it sounds like you SHOULD freelance. I mean...that would enable you to not deal with jobs that would require driving and the like.

Granted, no idea if the market for C# freelancers in your neck of the woods (and, really, why would you be limited to that, anyway? It's a virtual world) is big enough, but...given that you would NOT be dealing with physical limitations like driving and the like...I dunno. Sounds like something I'd investigate, were I you. And, of course, for all I know, you HAVE, and it didn't pan out.

I am sorry that people are such dimwits, when you bloody well TELL them, in advance, that you have vision challenges.

@Cinsajoy wrote:

You could run into solid walls. Mine is I can't just distance worth a darn.

AH, me too. I have strabismus. Commonly and erroneously called "lazy eye." Mine was (mostly) corrected as a child, through eye surgery, but I never did develop depth perception. I, too, have walked RIGHT into an invisible (it was a fine-screened) door, and bounced off, as you did. I know full well how embarrassing that is. Of course, with glass, it's bloody dangerous, too. I have developed enough "cues" so that I can drive, and somehow (must have been bloody daft), I rode showjumpers as a teen, popping over massive fences, without killing myself, but...yeah. It can be a real issue. It's NOTHING compared to what Kats is dealing with, of course.

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