I pre-disqualify myself from career success, because I happen to have some disabilities.... I want so much to have a good career but I haven't really delved into how to use the ADA to my advantage.
I currently work from home under ADA provisions, but I hold off from applying to new jobs because I don't know how to deal with the accommodations I might need when interviewing (e.g. remote interview).
btw I majored in math at Stanford and was a Goldwater scholar and I used to be on track for research grad school and all until I got sick, and there has been a major downgrade in my career aims since becoming disabled.
I guess I'm allowing my assumptions to keep me from pursuing the kind of career I want. On one hand, I see a lot of myself in highly successful people, but on the other hand I see a lot of myself in sick people who are on disability and can't work, and the difference is so great that I can't figure out where I want to fall.
I also have not found the correct "peer group" for myself. I am part of two communities: healthy ambitious people (but the advice doesn't fit since I don't have the health to carry it out, or I need modifications), and unhealthy unambitious people (and I can do better than most of them and I don't want to be kept down). I need to find a group of ambitious people with disabilities to show me how to do this... There are so few! I guess I should look for successful people with disabilities like mine.
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