RESEARCHING DISABILITY
ASSIGNMENT 3.1 (INVESTIGATING A PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE)
In the future, I want to be a stock forecaster. I am interested in this profession since I am interested in numbers, regularity, and calculations. Besides, I am also a risk lover, so I enjoy watching one’s saving grows from small amount to big portions. This profession involves such works as siting in front of the desk and working on numbers, negotiating with customers, and searching for business. I personally would rather be the one who does the calculations and interacting with customers. The audiences I will regularly speak with are the people who want to invest in the stock market. They can be with or without disabilities, men and women, adults and teenagers and so on. People with disabilities can paly an important role in this profession. To begin with, since the customers will have a great chance to disabled people, maybe talking to other people with disabilities will make the customers feel better and more comfortable and easier to communicate with. Besides, their special needs and requirements can also be fulfilled, sine when they feel uncomfortable to speak with other agents, they can talk to the people in their own group. Besides, when making stock forecasts, many influences have to be taken into account. Therefore, people with disabilities may provide different opinions that normal people cannot perceive. For instance, the change of such law as ADA will have impact on the stock market. To make people with disabilities work better in a company, it is crucial to assign work, which makes them feel most confortable. For instance, it is a bad decision to make a wheel chair user to go on business and meet with customers. It is better to give them job like analyzing data in front of the desk .
3.2 PROJECT PROPOSAL
I choose finance as my profession. At first, I want to explore how people with disabilities can benefit this profession. In other words, how people with disabilities can bring good to this career with their special skills. Since I remember that I have read few articles which state that people with special disabilities have better memory than others and are more sensitive to the numbers. In this case, they can analysis data and stock faster and more accurate than other people. However, as I am researching, I found it is very hard to find those articles again, but I found more information about how people with disabilities can find jobs in financial area and how this profession can benefit people with disabilities. There are many special organizations and special schools in which people with disabilities can study about finance and start their own business.Therefore, for my research, I will keep trying to find how people with disabilities can benefit this profession but looking more into how this profession can bring good to people with disabilities. I am interested in this direction since I noticed from the previous readings that people with disabilities are not getting enough help that they supposed to receive, so I want to explore that if people with disabilities need more help or not.