[Blindtlk] Common college degrees of employment for blind americans

[Jessica Kostiw]

Peter,
Interesting that you bring up places to live which have great 
transportation... transportation is something that has been on the forefront 
of my mind since I recently moved to northern Virginia.  If you live along 
the metro line things are great... if you don't... they are awful!  I live 
and work off the line.  I would love to talk and exchange ideas of where you 
have found to be good places.  The ACB put out a list of the best blind 
friendly places to live about five years ago.
The ones I remember were: Lewisville KY, New York NY, Lacrosse WS, Charlotte 
NC, and Portland OR.  I do not believe that transportation should be the 
only concern, but it is a factor.  I just now flew in from visiting a blind 
friend in Oklahoma City.  She is married with a 3-month-old baby.  Tanya 
works as a itinerant counselor for the city.  I am amazed at how she makes 
it work.  Public transportation helps, but is not always a necessity.

Jessica
jessicac.kostiw at gmail.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Wolfe" <sunspot005 at gmail.com>
To: <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2010 6:45 PM
Subject: [Blindtlk] Common college degrees of employment for blind americans


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>   It's Peter again with another general question about blind
> professionals. The last question was about the best city to be moving
> to after college with a small family. Now, I've been wrestling with
> this decision so I'd like you to really give me some serious feedback
> about this matter. First off, I use a speech synthesizer, read
> braille, use public transportation and have only a few really strong
> points. My major hobbies are history, political science, computers and
> programming, traveling, cooking, languages, etc.
>    My major concern is in deciding what my final major is going to be
> in the United States. My cities that I want to move are as follows:
> Raleigh, North Carolina, Boston Massachusetts, St. Paul, Ninnesota,
> Tallahasse, Florida, Bloomington, Indiania, Denver Colorado, Bolder,
> Colorado, San Diego, California, Seattle, Washington, Portland,
> Oregon, and or other places unforseen right now. Ultimately I want to
> own a small house so the bigger cities are off in the long run. So, I
> grapple with tthis issue of whether or not I can do it or not being
> blind. I can't see print, mobility minor problems and such things such
> as that. But the main thing is whether assistive technology, policies
> and procedures can be done in a ever changing world in which we live
> in. I would like to move in a place that has a catholic community of
> several parishes in the area as I'm going to be going through RCIA
> program in the future. Plus the strength of enduring through lots of
> computer courses like one that I took that are terribly visual in
> theme and job makeup. I'd appreciate any majors in the undergraduate
> level like by a weeks time and no later. My current major is social
> science/history education and the issue there is with the policies,
> procedures, pay and benefits, independence, discipline, maps and
> graphs for history and that is it. Unless you guys know of something
> else that would help.
>
>
> sincerely,
> Peter
>
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