>> See if that is something that you're going to be interested in.
You could have this idea this is what it would be like to work with the deaf community
or this idea this is what it would be like to work with persons
who have developmental disabilities or the blind.
And then when you spend some time either through the Best Buddies or Special Olympics
or learning sign language and spending time with the community, you might see the reality
of that is very different than the idea.
I think there needs to be, you need to have a heart that is very, very patient.
You need to have a heart that's not in a hurry.
Persons who have developmental disabilities have their own time table
and you're not going to be changing that time table.
So to be able to have a personality where you can go with their flow instead of trying to make
that group or that community try to go at a pace that is your own it doesn't work that way.
Working within the deaf community, again I think patience and the ability
to really immerse yourself in a culture that is not your own.
Because if you would like to work within the deaf world you really do have to be willing
to step out of the hearing world for a while and immerse yourself in the deaf world to see what
that is like to walk that walk, to live that language really on a daily basis
so that you can adequately and eloquently then go on to support the deaf community
and their endeavors and empower them to become leaders in their own right.
So if you, you can't have a personality of wanting to be top dog because your whole job is
to empower the folks you are working with to become top dogs,
to take on those leadership positions
so your whole career is working yourself out of a career.
And then that is really what you want to work to do than working it in a service career
like working with a person with disabilities is so rewarding that its reward enough in itself
to watch those that you are supporting thrive.
That's really all the reward that you need.