Dear Friends,
One of me eyes is really weak. (6/36). Doctor said it cant be correctable using spectacles.
I also have squint in the same eye.
How can this affect my career?
I heard that few companies reject such candidates in the medical check up even if they are given the offer letter
And that in US, people with colour blindness are not allowed to take driving license.
Please share any more of such limitations.
I am sure you will be able to help me from the happenings at your work place. Kindly share it with me, please, a whole hearted request.
Regards,
Anand I really appreciate your answers. Thanks a lot. I have some thing to learn from each one of them. Hi, Anand,
First, I would like to address the LASIK answer...if your vision in your bad eye cannot be corrected with spectacles, then it is very highly unlikely that LASIK will correct it...LASIK can only correct to your best glasses/contacts correction.
As for affecting your career...without knowing your career, how vision intensive it is, it's hard to say. A question to ask is "how well can I carry out my daily activities?" If your answer is that you're functioning very well as you are, then your career shouldn't be affected.
We see patients who have some serious vision problems in one eye, and they still carry out their jobs (various positions from cooks to attorneys to teachers) without a problem.
I've never had to take a medical checkup as a condition of employment before...drug testing, yes, but not a physical.
I do know that there might be some jobs, airline pilot, truck driver, that would preclude someone without full functional vision.
I also do not know of anywhere that prohibits color blind people from driving in the US. Visual field problems, yes...legal blindness...yes...but not color blind.
Depending on your particular career, you may need to have your optometrist write a letter stating the exact extent of your visual impairment and any limitations to that particular position you are applying for if there is any problem from your perspective employer.
In fact if you do an internet search for "eyesight discrimination" you will find article after article that states it is truly discrimination except for positions as pilots, truck drivers, surgeons...so those companies that you heard about would probably not make good employers if you are not in either of those lines of work...if I found out about that, I'd be leavin that company so fast...cause if they discriminate about vision and I am not flying a plane or driving a truck, and I'm not performing surgery...then there is a good chance they will discriminate on other illegal bases.
I hope I've been able to shed a little light on this for you, but your career (outside of a pilot or driver, surgeon) should not be affected, especially if you can see well out of your good eye. Well, that really sucks, doesn't it? I have a suggestion though, try working for a hospital. They hire blind people, hearing impaired people, amputee people, retired people..etc etc
Maybe contact a blind agency or volunteer company/non profit, and see what they can suggest. People who are blind can find work, so I'm sure you can also. Maybe put a post in a local news paper asking for work, but has poor eyesight. You never know what God has in store. hi anand,
i think u have got options.
u can go for LASIK eye surgery, which can help u restoring the vision and also for the squint. but u must go to a reputed eye hospital to get it done.
i don know about the license n all but i m sure u can sort out the other problems by consulting a reputed ophthalmologist. It seems from your panel, that you have an amblyopic eye, a lazy eye. This is an eye that is normal, anatomically, but doesn't 'function' normally even though all the parts are right and the connections to the brain are right, the brain just isn't using this eye.
If that's your situation, and on top of it, the eye drifts in or out or ?, that's the squint part.
There is no restriction for driving as long as one eye sees 20/40 or better and has a full visual field, you shouldn't have a problem. As far as jobs go, there are only a few job types that require color such as traffic, air control, pilots, cops, ?firemen,...that kind of job. The rest, shouldn't matter and I wouldn't put that down on an application for a job. It really doesn't matter whether you limp or not...just so you can do the job, show up, normal stuff. |
