[Blindtlk] Common college degrees of employment for blind americans

Fri Jun 4 02:05:47 UTC 2010

It's gmail not my system? If you look at my @ address that you can
tell that. I don't have an e-mail client and not even Google Blog can
give that answer. Nobody kows and at best there is control and home
that is it.

On 6/3/10, Steve P. Deeley <stevep.deeley at insightbb.com> wrote:
> Dude, please straighten out your e-mail responces.  Your replies are not at
> the top of your e-mail messages.  What is going on with your system???
>
> Steve
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Wolfe" <sunspot005 at gmail.com>
> To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 6:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Common college degrees of employment for blind
> americans
>
>
>> On 6/3/10, Jessica Kostiw <jessicac.kostiw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Peter
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>>>>
>>>> To list:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   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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>>
>> --
>> Peter
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>>
>> I will quote for you Jessica
>> "But the main thing is whether assistive technology, policies
>> and procedures can be done in a ever changing world" that is what I
>> exactly said. This is why I have exceptional reading ability as that
>> equal to a lawyer. I approach things in a multifasceted way. By no
>> means am I saying public transportation is the end all be all
>> approach. The allogations leveled at me over that issue are insaine. I
>> quoteed for you and I'd like to talk to perhaps but I continue to
>> support the bigger cities. The thing is that urban areas serve down
>> town but then the services as you mention die down where the suburbs
>> are. The inner city is cheaper with more crime, and etc. However,
>> suburbs have much nicer neighborhoods and have less crime but little
>> public transportation.
>>
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