[nabentre] ideas for work that blind people can successfully do from home

[Daniel Perry]

I don't have a degree, I quit college after about 4 years of absolute misery 
and unhappyness because of the lack of accessibility and do to the simple 
fact that I wasn't having any fun, so the most I have is a high school 
deploma, and although I technically graduated from my local school system, I 
really graduated from the virginia school for the deaf and blind in Staunton 
which is a fate I would not wish on my own worst enemy. When I graduated 
from there, the kind of work they had me doing, no employer in his right 
mind would have hired me for. I basically got payed to do things like play 
with the dogs at a boarding kennal, rewind tapes at the talking book center 
there at the local public library, and clean the chairs in the school's 
dining hall. I can type well on the computer as I say I've been using them 
since I was 5 years old, and if you'd like to know where my true passion 
lies it's in computer and video games. But math is to me what criptonite is 
to superman so I couldn't even code a game to save my life. And there in 
lies the challenge. I'm not really sure what I'd be good at to be quite 
honest with everyone. I could probably do transcription, but I don't really 
have any sort of equipment at all to do that kind of work. This usability 
testing thing sounds like something I could really get into though, so I'll 
look that over first and listen to other suggestions from the group as well. 
And no, I don't think I'm a part of the jobs email list come to think of it.

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From: "Leslie Fairall via nabentre" <nabentre at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2018 7:53 PM
To: "Daniel Perry via nabentre" <nabentre at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Leslie Fairall" <fairall at panix.com>
Subject: Re: [nabentre] ideas for work that blind people can successfully do 
from home

> Hi Dan:
>
> Can you give us a little more info? Do you have a college degree or prior 
> work experience? What type of work do you want to do? I remember seeing a 
> work-from-home ad on the jobs list doing transcription work. Are you on 
> that list as well?
>
>
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