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Question by -Chrissi-: summer jobs in Vancouver, BC?
I am deaf, so I would prefer to have a job that isn’t included in communicating too much.

Any great jobs for me this summer? I am becoming 16 soon.

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Answer by nyninchdick
The PNE and Playland at the PNE are good places for summer jobs. If you are comfortable communicating with other deaf people through ASL or HM Interface, you might be a great resource for other hearing disabled people who visit there. There’s about 80,000 people a day through the PNE and there are likely a lot of people who are deaf who would benefit from having a person there who can communicate easily with them.

A lot of ‘typical’ summer jobs tend to require some standard communication ability, but employers can’t discriminate based on a special need- I see lots of people who choose not to communicate verbally (both listening and speaking) and they seem to get along okay. If the job requires hearing as a key part of it, that’s one thing, but many jobs don’t. As you know firsthand, there are a lot of other things you can do to process information.

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