title: Fighting fate: a seventy percent unemployment rate.
abstract: When children with disabilities imagine joining the adult world of work, the joys of choosing a future career path are marred by the high unemployment rates. As I maneuvered through the world of work as a young adult, my optimism remained slightly dampened by an acute awareness that 70% of blind Americans are unemployed. In my experience, the ultimate strategy for success in securing meaningful employment involved a combination of an honest assessment of one's skills and limits, and stubbornly searching for that niche position.
authors.affiliation: Berkeley, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Haben
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Girma
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities; D011287:Prejudice; D013240:Stereotyping; D014478:Unemployment; D019987:Persons with Visual Disabilities