For some, there’s great comfort in the familiar - the job that’s still the same, when home-life has changed beyond recognition. Photograph: Joe O’ShaughnessyFarm supplies salesman to special needs assistant (SNA)Noel Kelly, father to Laura (9) and Elena (6), never envisaged himself working as a special needs assistant. He was working as a farm supplies salesman when his second child was born, but an unexpected diagnosis changed his life and career path entirely. “When the dust settled and I got my head around it, and only someone with a special needs child can understand that, my wife said to me ‘would you do a special needs course?’. “I got to work out with my baby, not having to worry about getting a babysitter.

Source: The Irish Times October 04, 2020 04:52 UTC