[humanser] job

[Mary Ann Rojek]

It's okay to share your frustrations, Angela.  Keep working at your job 
search and don't give up.

Mary Ann Rojek
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angela Palmer" <nexaliq at comcast.net>
To: <humanser at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:11 PM
Subject: [humanser] job


> 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
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