[humanser] job

[Angela Palmer]

Hi Ronit,

Thanks for sharing your job search experience.  I am bloth blind and technically deaf(I have cochlear implants in both ears) and finished Grad school in 2006 with to internships lined up.  I got my MS in counseling and have to accrue 3000 hours in order to sit for lisencure.  Anyway, I completed both interships discouraged because I had tried to get hired full time w/o success.  No one mentioned my disabilities but I felt this was the case.  I then looked for a job and had interviews until March of 08 w/o success.  Currently I am trying to get a reader/typist and a driver in order to get the applications out quicker.  I need a driver due to using paratransit, which is not always the most reliable.  It's discouraging when we do not get calls back and are not consideree for a job due to our blindness and in my case hearing impairment.  I am glad their are positives and that we do get hired some times.  I just needed to share some of my own frustrations and put myself out a bit.  Sorry the message is so long.

Angela and  Guide dog, Pathfinder