Researching Disability
Assignment 3.1
One of my professional interests is to be a financial advisor for businesses that have to do with environmental ideas. For example, maybe there is a company that is based off solar energy and wants to try to sell more solar panels, I could advise them in the direction they could take to sell more panels. Becoming a financial advisor for an environmentally green business would combine two of my major interests, business and environmental science. I would regularly be working with companies that want to launch innovative new products while improving the “health” of the world. I would also be able to work in all different kinds of communities. There are all sorts of environmental technologies, from wind turbines to drones (as in what these things can do to benefit people), that can be used anywhere, from the projects in the cities to the wide-open farmland in the Midwest.
Disability could relate my job because I might meet companies who are run by a person with a disability (simply by chance). I don’t think my potential job would cause me to interact or meet more than the average of people with disabilities (or around 20% of the US population according to the CDC). However, I think it would be easy to incorporate people with physical disabilities, like being a chair user, into financial advising. Since most of the work is office work, it does not require too much movement. I could see a potential problem with people who have mental disabilities, because it would be hard for companies to trust someone who has a disability like autism. The companies probably wouldn’t want someone with a disability who wasn’t normal or didn’t seem as put together as someone without a disability.
Overall, there are some hurdles for a person with a disability to be in the financial and environmental world. These hurdles are not much different from how people with disabilities cope with everyday life, but they are still difficult nonetheless.
Assignment 3.1
One of my professional interests is to be a financial advisor for businesses that have to do with environmental ideas. For example, maybe there is a company that is based off solar energy and wants to try to sell more solar panels, I could advise them in the direction they could take to sell more panels. Becoming a financial advisor for an environmentally green business would combine two of my major interests, business and environmental science. I would regularly be working with companies that want to launch innovative new products while improving the “health” of the world. I would also be able to work in all different kinds of communities. There are all sorts of environmental technologies, from wind turbines to drones (as in what these things can do to benefit people), that can be used anywhere, from the projects in the cities to the wide-open farmland in the Midwest.
Disability could relate my job because I might meet companies who are run by a person with a disability (simply by chance). I don’t think my potential job would cause me to interact or meet more than the average of people with disabilities (or around 20% of the US population according to the CDC). However, I think it would be easy to incorporate people with physical disabilities, like being a chair user, into financial advising. Since most of the work is office work, it does not require too much movement. I could see a potential problem with people who have mental disabilities, because it would be hard for companies to trust someone who has a disability like autism. The companies probably wouldn’t want someone with a disability who wasn’t normal or didn’t seem as put together as someone without a disability.
Overall, there are some hurdles for a person with a disability to be in the financial and environmental world. These hurdles are not much different from how people with disabilities cope with everyday life, but they are still difficult nonetheless.