[nfb-db] New Member

[Mussie]

Hi John,
I tried emailing you off-list, but the email message bounced. Apparently you 
have a new address. My email address that I use for lists like this one is 
gmussie9 at hotmail.com. We can of course converse through this list, but if 
you have any specific questions you'd like to ask or any particular topics 
you prefer to talk off list, use that email address.
Well, it could be a tough situation for someone like you to be in when kids 
are involved. And as you probably know, finding a decent job is not easy 
these days, but it really pay to have a graduate degree so that it might be 
easier for you to market your skills and be able to find a well-pay job.
There are online degree programs (some universities have accessible websites 
offering graduate degrees online). I have taken numerous classes online at a 
community college (but the college uses Blackboard Learning Systems) and 
find distance education helpful. But it all comes down to individual 
preferences (some people learn better in class on campus through interaction 
with others), and you should have to also be prepared because online classes 
do not translate into ease and flexibility as I have found myself struggling 
to catch up for having thought that online classes would provide me with 
flexibility and easy time management. Many of the students taking online 
classes at my school do so because they have kids.
I hope all is going well for you!
Mussie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
To: "'NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List'" <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-db] New Member


> Mussie:
>
> Nice to find you here!  I am sorry to have missed the chance to go to the
> Bay Area recently.  We were going to attend a NCADB event, but then the
> program was put on hold.  Then it wasn'['t on hold anymore but basically
> closed, along with most of the company's operations.  Fortunately, we 
> still
> hadn't that many consumers in your area.  In other areas, it was chaos!
>
> As I mentioned before, I have to decide between taking a similar job or
> going to graduate school.  The job would pay good and right away, but it 
> is
> not quite what I really want to do.  School means being really poor for a
> while, but at the end I'll be able to get a tenure-track post at a
> university, doing what I really want to do.  If I was single and had no
> children, I'd go the latter route without any questions.  But that's not 
> the
> case.
>
> Any advice or thoughts?
>
> John
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-db-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Mussie
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 8:59 PM
> To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] New Member
>
> Welcome John Lee Clark. I have joined this list several months ago, but I
> remained totally absent because I, too, have been really busy.
> Pardon me everyone on this list if I failed to introduce myself first. I 
> am
> Mussie Gebre from the Bay Area of Northern California. I am deaf-blind and
> currently provide assistive tech training and consulting, but my current
> college education significantly limits my ability to work with additional
> clients and organizations throughout California.
> Mussie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Lee Clark" <johnlee at clarktouch.com>
> To: <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 2:29 PM
> Subject: [nfb-db] New Member
>
>
>> Hello, all!
>>
>> Several months ago I joined NFB through the Writers Division.  Someone on
>> their list let me know that there is also a DB Division, but at that time
>> I
>> was too busy with work to check it out.  But here I am now!
>>
>> My name is John Lee Clark, and I am second generation deaf-blind.  My
>> father
>> is the current vice president of AADB.  I live in St. Paul, Minnesota,
>> with
>> my wife and three sons.  Until very recently, I worked as director of
>> Communication Facilitator Service.  Right now, I am debating whether to
>> take
>> a similar job with another company or go to graduate school.  These days,
>> I
>> am busy writing and promoting my two books.
>>
>> I look forward to meeting all of you on this list!
>>
>> John
>>
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