Employment take 2

So life goes on and on and am no longer strictly staying at home any longer. Which is great news to me as it's an opportunity to spread my wings a bit further then my front door which I neglect doing normally.

I've always been an inside type of person, always reading or drawing, in the last 10 years since I've owned my first PC I've done nothing but play on the computer in my pass times. The only thing I do for exercise is walking, which is surprisingly a very good way to get and stay in shape. However without a job and a reason to get out, the walking bit takes a serious back seat.

Four years ago I was very active as I was working full time, I still had some time for my City and Heroes or Guild Wars for an hour a night, and an hour with my daughter. Which is actually not all that much as she was only 2 years old. I had to work then because my now spouse was my then ex boyfriend. But we worked things out, over a period of almost a year, and I moved back with him. At which point he was more successful then ever, providing an option for me to stay home. Our child was only 3 then, so it worked great.

Now that she is 7, mommy is starting to find she wants to do something else. As previously blogged, I did get a job at a computer store as warranty specialist. But it was not working out for a few reasons. The ones I mentioned were time issues, it was full time which worked fine as long as my spouse worked at home. But he then went ahead and quit his job and was instantly hired at a new firm. Poof he could no longer work at home as this new position was a lot more demanding. I never liked having my daughter in daycare, that and it's bloody expensive as well. My other issue were the amount of mistakes I was making while being trained and the constant questions I was throwing at my trainer, after a while we did not get along well, she had no sympathy or tolerance.

At this time I was very frustrated, I consulted my family doctor and told her about my issues at work, she then referred me to a friend of hers who deals with learning disabilities. Turns out a month or so later I was diagnosed with CAPD, Central Auditory Perception Disorder. The job I was trying to learn and perform relied heavily on my hearing ability, I would have spent a great deal of time on the phone as well as listening to instructions and hearing out complaints... I was quite obviously not well suited for the job from the get go. But as many other adults out there, I had no idea. I had never held a job which required to rely on my hearing, everything else I had done I could compensate by seeing or reading. There was very little visual cues in the warranty job other then filling out forms, and still then many people at this establishment relied on verbal communication.

But finally we did figure out something I could do without sending our child to after school care. I am now employed by my husband and I do proof reading of his reports, binding, mailing and miscellaneous things that needs to be dealt with. I am done by the time I need to pick up my daughter from school and a whole lot happier that I can get out, get walking and do something different under someone that won't roll their eyes when I don't understand something.

**cross posted at GAX**