[nabs-l] Update on meeting with a job placement specialist

Sat May 9 15:08:44 UTC 2009

My point rite on. It will not even give me enough money to hold on to part 
time.
Rania,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:50 PM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Update on meeting with a job placement specialist


> Rania,
> If you are sure you'll make it in this field, that you can live off this 
> salary, then go for it.
> Continue to sign up for classes and pay for transportation on your own.
> Selling things online cannot generate enough money to live on.  So I don't 
> agree with your counselor.
>
> Ashley
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rania" <raniaismail04 at gmail.com>
> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Update on meeting with a job placement specialist
>
>
>>I have spoke to someone from the nfb and they told me to keep going with 
>>what i am doing but my counselor still wants me to get a job but the only 
>>thing she could suggest to me as a part time job is selling things online.
>> Rania,
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Linda Stover" <liamskitten at gmail.com>
>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list" 
>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Update on meeting with a job placement specialist
>>
>>
>>> Rania,
>>>
>>> I'd handle it precisely the way you have been for the present, e.g.
>>> signing up for classes independently and continuing to pay for
>>> transportation.  For the long term, have you considered speaking with
>>> someone affiliated with the NFB in your state?  They might have better
>>> suggestions for handling the specific counselor you are dealing with.
>>> Hth
>>> Courtney
>>>
>>> On 5/8/09, Rania <raniaismail04 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> How about in my case whare you took a class twice but failed it twice 
>>>> so you
>>>> looked for another school to go to in your field of choice so you could
>>>> finish taking the classes you need only to find out that your counselor 
>>>> was
>>>> instructed to help you come up with a plan for a job instead of you 
>>>> going
>>>> back to school like you would like to. I am paying for school and
>>>> transportation this time sinse rehab is not helping me with neither one 
>>>> this
>>>> time. I applied and handed in my accommodations and got excepted all on 
>>>> my
>>>> own but rehab is trying to push so bad for me to go to work. How would 
>>>> you
>>>> handle this?
>>>> Rania,
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
>>>> To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing list"
>>>> <nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 12:55 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Update on meeting with a job placement specialist
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Gedi,
>>>>>
>>>>> That's right!  Rehab should help you explore all the possibilities.
>>>>> Unfortunately, some rehab counselors are better than others and some 
>>>>> have
>>>>> more open attitudes.  Mine didn't do anything to help me find summer
>>>>> employment in college; I found it on my own since fortunately there's 
>>>>> a
>>>>> program called workforce recruitment program for students with
>>>>> disabilities out there.
>>>>> I thought about working with kids in childcare or teaching but my
>>>>> counselor said negative things.  She did not say No or say it was not
>>>>> doable.  However she did imply it would be real difficult and its not 
>>>>> a
>>>>> secure job.  She emphasized how much responsibility it was.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't really care about other opinions.  I know my strengths and I'm
>>>>> stubborn.  So I will try it if I want to.  Right now I want an office 
>>>>> job.
>>>>>
>>>>> It pays more and is certainly more secure.  Later on once I've gotten 
>>>>> more
>>>>>
>>>>> confident in my own skills as well as had a chance to volunteer with 
>>>>> kids,
>>>>>
>>>>> I might go into childcare or go back to school for a masters in 
>>>>> education.
>>>>>
>>>>> Then I will teach.
>>>>> I don't know yet.  Part of me still wants to teach but I realized 
>>>>> through
>>>>> soul searching I'm doubtful I can control a classroom and manage
>>>>> conducting a whole class.  I don't know if I have the personality for 
>>>>> it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, we have come a long way but there are people out there who 
>>>>> still
>>>>> believe only certain jobs are possible for a blind person.  Its up to 
>>>>> us
>>>>> to stand up and try new careers going with our desires and what we 
>>>>> studied
>>>>>
>>>>> for rather than some mold of what we should do to please a rehab
>>>>> counselor.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ashley
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