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Ask HN: What is a physiically disabled person to do in this job market?

42 points amathew | 2 comments | 14 Jul 25 22:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.609s | source

I am a 39 year old with cerebral palsy (use a walker due to mobility issues) who lost their job in late January 2025. I worked as a senior data scientist in the past and have been applying to analytics, business intelligence, and data science roles.

Six months later and I am still without a job.

How have those of you with disabilities overcome the difficulties in this market?

I'm totally lost and don't know how to proceed.

I've rewritten my resume and do get interviews

There were 4 instances where I went through the entire process and they ended up hiring another one of the candidates

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abraham-mathew-21221b29/

1. bigyabai ◴[14 Jul 25 23:09 UTC] No.44566358[source]▶
My anecdotal experience has been that the demand for data science/analytics jobs has cratered for the past couple years. Probably has something to do with AI, but even before ChatGPT it felt like the data science demand was vastly inflated. Financier capital in America is over, the era of lean startups is here to stay for quite some time.

Unless you're interested in applying your statistics knowledge to the military industrial complex or AI market, I'd probably recommend diversifying a bit. My honest $0.02.

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2. mixmastamyk ◴[15 Jul 25 07:36 UTC] No.44568849[source]▶
Really? I see lots of posts still, though they could be fake I suppose. Was thinking of taking a machine learning course. Will it be another disappointment?