Earnings for a person with a high degree of myopia

DarkWood2012-03-21 17:25:57

Freelance

DarkWood, 2012-03-21 17:25:57

Hello, dear habrasochestvo.
I finally decided to ask this question here.

So, there is a person with a degree of myopia equal to -15 in both eyes.
Perhaps you can suggest some ways to earn money. I know about freelancing, of course.
What I can more or less do: all sorts of buttons / banners (but not logos) for sites (and most of the other features of Adobe Photoshop).
HTML - simple pages, a site "for yourself", i.e. The maximum is average knowledge.
CSS - also, the main effects, the basic principles of layout - this is somewhere in the beginning.
JavaScript - the initial level (the maximum that I did on my own is a script for adding / subtracting the number n from a certain date of the month (to calculate the required date).
PHP - the very beginning.

OS Windows XP, Vista, 7; Ubuntu is at the amateur level.
English - I translate with a dictionary (I know and visit about lingualeo).

Amateur photographer (no matter how strange it may sound in this situation). Photo examples (just in case): http://db.tt/Eu4vPAWt

That's all.

What can you advise. Attentive enough, good memory (ironically especially visual), learning ability (but there is not enough one who would tell why, what, where and when to use; for example, in the same PHP: I got to cycles, but where and when is it better to use ?..), communication skills are not particularly ... great.

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65520, 2012-03-22
@65520

All that you have listed, given the level of your knowledge and skills, you will not be able to earn in any way. Learn, develop. I myself have -8 in both eyes and I have been wearing glasses since childhood - I don’t understand how myopia can affect a person’s career in IT. It seems to me that you just realized too late.

Melkij, 2012-03-21
@melkij

-10 both eyes. I don't understand what the problem is.
If you don’t know where you are more interested, try every area that you can reach. And study the one you like.

Alexey, 2012-03-22
@Sterhel

I have a similar situation now (with vision, however, it is better for the time being, but, I'm afraid, this is temporary).
There are a lot of basic skills (design - php - html - css - blablabla). A few thousand a month are stably supported by the sites I made earlier, a few more are the very creation of new sites.
My education is generally humanitarian, so far I have found myself as a text writer (proofreading, editing, translations of professional literature, infographics, writing press releases, manuals, technical documentation, in general, excellent skills in working with everything related to the word). I can write good game scripts, write characters, text quests with CR level trees.
Try working with text if you have the skills.
If not, choose one of the listed it-skills, and start actively working on exactly that. Do not scatter at first on everything at once, reach a good level, for example, in layout.
You just have to force yourself. Self-education at home with a book / computer / working examples works. Checked. There would be a desire.

bost84, 2012-03-21
@bost84

Keep developing. And you yourself will understand where to use cycles when the corresponding task appears.

Dmitry Kuzmin, 2012-03-21
@Dimkaa

Is it better to start with a freelancer?

gaelpa, 2012-03-21
@gaelpa

Age (holivorous, but helps to indirectly evaluate experience), education (there), which of the following do you like, and which is “like” (inclinations)? What are the limitations due to vision for working with a computer? What are the actual limits?
Well and the main thing: what, sobsno, interests? What vacancy should I leave a resume for or in what direction to develop further?
To be honest, the only possible answer is that what you like more, do it. The experience of other people with vision problems is unlikely to help you here, it will tell you at most what difficulties there may be, but you yourself are probably aware of this.

pixxxel, 2012-03-21
@pixxxel

The photos at first seemed very lame, but for about 10 minutes I’ve been looking at this one , I can’t tear myself away.

Andrey Shiryaev, 2012-03-22
@Claud

Well, in general, everything that you have listed can bring money, but all this is in your "slightly" stage. In my opinion, you need to take the direction in which you consider yourself strong and where you can achieve something.
PS And myopia -15 is how bad? I have vision in general, turn off the light, but by the will of fate, life is connected with a computer :)

egorinsk, 2012-03-23
@egorinsk

It is very difficult to study on your own (except perhaps for a person with outstanding abilities like Einstein). The best option to improve skills in IT technologies is to work for at least a year or two in a professional team.
Therefore, it will be difficult for you to freelance to compete with those who have such experience, and who can do in 10 minutes what you will torment for half a day. You can see, for example, what orders are placed on freelance.ru and evaluate whether you can handle them. And not just to cope, but to do better than others.
I don’t even know what to advise ... nevertheless, try to find the occupation that you are better at and develop in this direction. Read articles/tutorials. For example, there is a good site for javascript - javascript.ru. English to some extent can be pumped on films with subtitles, and then by reading sites in English. PHP is worth learning from the official manual, it is not bad, and there is a Russian translation. There is a site on CSS htmlbook.ru, good (must read) articles here: softwaremaniacs.org/blog/category/primer/.
As for Photoshop, you need not only to master the tools / filters / layer effects, but also a certain understanding of trends in web design, a sense of taste. It is necessary to sit on all sorts of design and near-design sites, look out for interesting ideas.
And if in the process of studying there are any specific questions, write to Q&A, we will answer :)