[stylist] Where my head is

[Brad Dunse']

You can never go wrong with doing more than you are paid  to do. 
Sure, some take advantage, but most times it is a benefit. Not always 
monitarily. It might come in the form of just blowing the socks off 
someone in appreciation of helping them out, lead to another writing 
job providing conversational reading tech docs, or who knows that 
document could be picked up by another state agency as a training 
manual, provided their procedures and methods are the same. I often 
feel similar as you  as a performing songwriter, on paid gigs I get 
paid to perform, but the many hours put into writing a song is a 
complimentary offering of artistic pleasure :).

Brad

On 11/27/2011  12:05 AM Robert Leslie Newman said...
>Hi you all:
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>My head has been buried in a series of writing projects that have ---- eaten
>up all my spare time and has even made me skimp on some of my home and NFB
>duties! (Ever been there?)
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>What I've been doing is --- acting as a mentor for a new vocational
>counselor hired by my old employer, the Nebraska Commission for the Blind
>and visually Impaired. I've been wrapped up with that for almost 2 months. I
>will be spending the next week with her, out in Carney, Nebraska (3 hours
>from where I live in Omaha). In assisting her to learn about her job duties,
>and to try and instill a super positive philosophy of blindness, I decided
>that besides our talking and her observation of me modeling what her job
>requires, I decided that it would be helpful to her to have a hard copy
>rendition of --- her duties, including short sections of --- well, what to
>say! (that was the first document/manual) The second is all about providing
>Job Seeking Skill instruction. (Again, I give the steps, then I dramatize
>them.) the third document is how to, from the get-go, like at the first
>meeting on up through the application, the case acceptance, the development
>of the Individualized Plan for Employment, the learning  of blindness
>skills, going for vocational training like school, on up to the time to seek
>employment, and finally the 90 days of follow-up after the consumer is
>employed, then is closed from services.(This to has suggested activities and
>wording on how to weave vocational counseling and expectations/ownership ,
>into all phases of the consumers time as a client.
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>It sort of blossomed into a longer stent of writing then I had planned for.
>(You know, how some storys just seem to take on a life of their own.) Funny,
>I'm getting paid for the mentoring, but not for the writing!
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>Robert Leslie Newman
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>President, Omaha Chapter NFB
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>President, NFB Writers' Division
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>Division Website
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>Chair, Newsletter Publication committee
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>Personal Website-
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>  <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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