[humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment

[Karen Rose]

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> On Dec 27, 2013, at 3:41 PM, "justin williams" <justin.williams2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah; but several jobs seem not to want to hire us if we don't have drivers
> license; just wondering how to show an employer that getting around that is
> not such a big deal.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Karen Rose
> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 6:40 PM
> To: Human Services Mailing List
> Cc: Human Services Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment
> 
> Many people myself included simply put down our non-driver ID in the spot
> requiring drivers license number and just go on with application process
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Dec 27, 2013, at 3:34 PM, "justin williams"
> <justin.williams2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've noticed this theme of drivers license.  While it seems as if some 
>> of us have acquired such jobs, several others have encountered this as a
> barrier.
>> We must collectively come up with ways to surmount it.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Sandy
>> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 6:31 PM
>> To: Human Services Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment
>> 
>> I also do own a small home that I am slowly downsizing from my family 
>> who lived years in it and have passed.
>> 
>> Jonathan, I believe the Mass. Commission wants driver's license.  At 
>> one time, I had a blind counselor who was driven to clients' home by a 
>> sighted woman.  The blindness agency in CT, as far as I know, still 
>> uses some drivers.  Anyway, we seem to need to work around this driver 
>> license requirement in a bunch of job placements.
>> 
>> 
>> Sandy
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Darla Rogers" <djrogers0628 at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2013 12:04 AM
>> To: "'Human Services Mailing List'" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [humanser] Drivers license requirement for employment
>> 
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>> 
>>> Well, I won't be a shoulder here, but I have had to move more than I 
>>> liked to accept a position, and the NFB members I have met here are 
>>> pretty awesome folks.
>>> The Massachusetts Commission for the Blind was advertising jobs 
>>> awhile back, too, and if I didn't own my own home, might have considered
> it.
>>> Darla
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
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