I don't know what part of this I'm responding to, but both comments brought it to mind.
Apparently, I think like a computer. Hit me with a box of numbers, and I go through one at a time and look for the highest one I've seen yet. Apparently the "correct" answer is to look at the entire block and eliminate whole swathes at once. Very strange. Potentially useful, but not in the least intuitive. I was attempting a MOOC on Python and it quickly became very awkward as the teacher kept explaining information that was intuitively obvious to me like it was difficult and confusing. I'm sure this happens to you a lot. It makes me wonder how useful I can possibly remain as computers get better and better at talking to people. Computers are millions of times faster than any human.
What I'd really like to do, I think, maybe, is be an accessibility advocate/consultant. If you want to make sure your daycare program, or public facility, or summer camp is accessible to as many people as humanly possible, you give me money, I come and check things out, then point out what can be done. Or, if you want to convince your local whatever to be more accessible, you hire me and I come and explain why being accessible makes you more awesome. Hopefully I'd be able to charge large corporations an arm and a leg and consult with nonprofits and public schools and individuals who don't have ridiculous amounts of resources for no charge. But that's not a job that exists. And I'd need to learn more. Some of it is stuff I can figure out, like what angles you need for a really accessible ramp for wheelchairs, and other stuff I don't even know is a thing yet. And I don't want to be self-employed at all.
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dancing_serpent
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2015-07-05 10:41 pm (UTC)Apparently, I think like a computer. Hit me with a box of numbers, and I go through one at a time and look for the highest one I've seen yet. Apparently the "correct" answer is to look at the entire block and eliminate whole swathes at once. Very strange. Potentially useful, but not in the least intuitive. I was attempting a MOOC on Python and it quickly became very awkward as the teacher kept explaining information that was intuitively obvious to me like it was difficult and confusing. I'm sure this happens to you a lot. It makes me wonder how useful I can possibly remain as computers get better and better at talking to people. Computers are millions of times faster than any human.
What I'd really like to do, I think, maybe, is be an accessibility advocate/consultant. If you want to make sure your daycare program, or public facility, or summer camp is accessible to as many people as humanly possible, you give me money, I come and check things out, then point out what can be done. Or, if you want to convince your local whatever to be more accessible, you hire me and I come and explain why being accessible makes you more awesome. Hopefully I'd be able to charge large corporations an arm and a leg and consult with nonprofits and public schools and individuals who don't have ridiculous amounts of resources for no charge. But that's not a job that exists. And I'd need to learn more. Some of it is stuff I can figure out, like what angles you need for a really accessible ramp for wheelchairs, and other stuff I don't even know is a thing yet. And I don't want to be self-employed at all.