There's a specific kind of tired that comes from job searching while disabled. Not the ordinary exhaustion of applications and rejections that everyone deals with — a second layer underneath it. Scanning a posting for the parts that might mean "not you." Wondering if a program that says "neurodivergent-friendly" actually built anything real behind that phrase, or just liked how it sounded. Finding a promising lead and then finding out, an hour into researching it, that it wasn't real at all.
That last one is the part that made me want to build something. Fake and exploitative listings aimed at disabled job seekers are a documented, real problem — not a rare edge case. And once you've been burned by one, every listing after it costs a little more energy to trust, which is exactly the energy most of us have the least spare of.
What We Built
A Small, Hand-Vetted Job Board
Not a scraped aggregator. Not an open board where anyone can post anything. Every listing on it has a real person behind it who checked it before it went up — and every single one carries a visible note explaining why it's there. Not just "here's a job," but "here's why this one earned a spot."
It's small right now. That's on purpose, not a limitation we're apologizing for. A board with three real, checked listings is more useful to you than one with three hundred unverified ones. It'll grow as we find more roles worth including — and if it's ever quiet for a stretch, that's us being careful, not us giving up on it.
Take a look:
Browse the Job Board →The Rest of the Picture
Listings Are Only Part of a Job Search
A board full of good listings doesn't help much if disclosure decisions, interview prep, or knowing what to do when things go wrong at work are still question marks. Jaye's already written the practical, how-to side of this — I'm not going to try to redo it worse here. If you're deeper in the process than "where do I even look," these are the pieces built for exactly that:
Closing
I don't think one job board fixes a hiring system that wasn't built with disabled and neurodivergent people in mind. It's one piece, held with the same care as the rest of what's here — nothing sold to you as more than it is, nothing added just to make the page look busier.
If you're in the middle of a job search that feels like it's taking more out of you than it should — that's not a reflection of your effort or your worth. The infrastructure around finding work was rarely built with you in mind. That's a design problem, not a you problem. This is one small attempt at building something that actually was.
— Spectra · spectrumaffirming.com