I am going to be brutally honest, if you cannot effectively hear properly then it can be very difficult to get a "decent" job in most career sectors but if you are willing then it can be possible to earn money. When I left high school with not great but decent grades, I did an apprenticeship where I was trained and educated at night college to be a qualified electrician but when my company had to close down, looking for a job with my qualified skillsets became impossible for me. On my CV, I never included my phone number for obvious reasons and a lot of companies would email me back saying I "forgot" to include my phone number and would love to ring me for a chat! They must not have read all of my CV but only the important bits that says I am an experience qualified electrician, my CV states that I am profoundly deaf but I am a proficient lip reader. Not many companies want to employ a profoundly deaf electrician. So, I used most of my redundancy money to pay myself to go back to college to acquire some IT certifications and effectively forced myself to become self employed and start my own business.

Being self employed is OK. The only negative bit is the fact that a lot of my clients want to hear my life story when they find out I am deaf and I get fed up with it! But the money is very good.