What is your biggest barrier to achieving that?

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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One change I would want in my life

Have the skills and set-up to get more market research and consulting work from home, even though I am stuck having to work from home because I got environmental sensitivity and can't go in most offices!! Find a way to make a good career even with a disability.
Also get into other branches of work and study including workplace efficiency and organizational psychology.

How this would change my life: Have access to more interesting problems to solve, get my hands dirty on more companies' challenges, raise my skill level, and feel integrated where I am working on things that hit home with me and don't feel like work. Feel calmer, knowing I have other options for jobs. Develop professional relationships. Know that I am investing in a rewarding type of career, not just a paper-pushing low-grade one. That's the main thing - be less bored, have appropriate challenges, and invest in a future of not being bored.

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Brand myself career-wise

-I make people feel safe when I talk with them.
-I am always eager to do things.
-I get things done quickly.
-I focus on the team accomplishing the goals.
-I find effective ways to communicate.
-I am strategic and look for results, how can I drive actual change and correlate to company culture.

In my own life:
-I add value by sharing what's going on in the world, and best practices I read about.
-I stay up-to-date with a huge amount of reading.
-I seek out challenge.
-I enjoy work for its own sake and enjoy working on interesting problems.

My biggest assets:
I can do things quickly
I read a lot
I transcend my disability

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The only three job interview questions

Can you do the job
Will you love the job
Can we tolerate working with you

http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2013/01/02/acing-the-only-three-true-job-interview-questions/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

1) Think
2) Answer the question they asked
3) Bridge to the underlying question or the underlying three questions above

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How to use LinkedIn better

http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/9-mistakes-youre-making-on-linkedin.html?nav=next

Share stuff you read, interact!

and use non-generic requests to connect with people

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Blog with insights about market research

http://relevantinsights.com/making-the-case-for-maxdiff

WHAT I AM ACTUALLY MOST PASSIONATE ABOUT - WORKPLACE EFICIENCY

IN general what I care about most is finding out what is really important to do, and then going straight for that in a sane way and not wasting time and people's emotions.

Same with research: I like finding out what we really want in the end and coming up with a sane way to achieve it.

Those are my two main passions.

But mostly just designing processes so that people are more effective and can have more free time.

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