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Re: where have the jobs gone? check out http://www.aph.org/orbit-reader-20/This is the braille display I am saving money to afford. I was told it will cost brand new around $500. I read and write braille and I would use it every day. Personally in the united states at least I think there should be laws in place and people to make sure such laws are enforced. I am talking about laws which prohibit families from sheltering their blind children as if they are two-year-olds for their whole lives. Sheltering a child does absolutely nothing for them. I'm not sheltered but the person I married I found out too little too late had been extremely sheltered. When her family tried sheltering me and treating me like a mental patient I resisted and fought them by going to school and getting more education. They did not like that so they used the law and courts to kick me out of their lives and out of my wife's life. So I lost the only job I could have had. I am so happy that my 9 year old son is sighted and can see. He will be able to get whatever job he wants. He will be able to have a good life. I take very good care of him and he gets excellent grades in school. He is very smart. He is also unique because he gets to see an example of a blind person who is not sheltered... That is me... And an example of how not to raise blind people... And An example of continual extreme sheltering... His Mom's family who continually shelter and baby her... I provide the best example I can. I fix computers for $20 or $30 here and there once in awhile for people around town. I also fix his and mine when they break. I wish trains and busses ran through this town like they did 60 or 70 years ago. That way I could get to the two major cities in my county. I would have lots more to do then. I am confident I will be able to save up the $500 for the orbit reader20. I am putting $60 or so away each month. One or two months I will be able to put $200 or so in the braille display fund envelope. I look forward to having a durable braille display that will be affordable. Perhaps somehow it will also lead to a good paying job and to gainful employment. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259190#p259190 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? There are many people who work very well without a braille display, but they can be convenient to have if you can afford them or get the necessary financial assistance if not.Even volunteering is a form of work, and that can lead to paid work. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259173#p259173 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? @Tjt, Interestingly enough, despite engaging for years with a highly academic subject and being heavily involved with writing I've never used or had the need for a braille display. I imagine I could probably use one (albeit mostly for playing roguelikes), however the financial cost has always been prohibitive. My education grant bought me my supernova license originally and paying for upgrades from then on hasn't been an issue, indeed these days with vo on mac and Nvda a windows option actual equipment purchice is far less necessary than it used to be, for all services like mobility training and research assistance are still needed. I'm not sure about the states but I'm less convinced of the "there are jobs out there" arguement, much less jobs that actually give any sort of real satisfaction to life, not unless a person has a very specific career path in mind as a solicitor, doctor, councillor, teacher engineer, or something that basicall y automatically comes with it's own level of interlectual stimulation. Even then, the chances of actually finding an employer willing to employ a disabled person are very, very small, it took my brother fourteen years of sending out literally two hundred cvs a month and even then he only got a job because my dad was a character witness in a trial and talked to the solicitor in charge. @Cae, The collectives valuation system has nothing to do either with self care, good personal routine or anything else, though sadly it does have rather too much to do with the basic isolation of being blind and the problems of being an intravert, not to mention more serious ones. The latter there isn't a lot that can be done, but the former there is, eg, getting up at a reasonable time, exercising, making sure to get things done in a consistant fashion etc, then again I'm probably not the best exponent of this. I'll also say, one thing that helps hugey is living with and sharing my life with a fellow intravert, albeit one who is a little less myssanthropic than I am, though perhaps slightly more prone to book related time lapse, if not to actual depression. In the Uk at least it's quite possible to start general courses in most anything if not actual degrees, which is one thing I do plan to keep going sinse I know for me if I am not learning and engaging the brain I'm stagnating (and I've had far too much of that over the last ten years), likewise voluntary jobs and positions that do! involve doing something useful. It's also a matter of knowing one's own strengths. I know myself the two things I am vaguely good at and that I will take time to do are singing and writing. I will certainly continue to look for opportunities to do both in my life, and if I can do either or both professionally, ie, get paid and recognized that'd be cool. If not, well I still get to do them anyway, and heck I'm e ven likely to actually finish my doctorate at this point which will probably help.As to whether one has ever changed life after the third decade, short answer, yes, indeed partly because of many interlectual's increasing dissatisfaction with the collective's treatment of the individual, it's remarkable how many people are! extending the period of instability before a perminant career or changing what they do entirely when the initial soacial expectations of the collective become too much, though it often involves things that are a little drastic or finding social groups and activities that mean more than the traditional "go out with mates from work" kind of approach that the collective still believes as the social ideal, (My brother has lots of whacky friends in his anime society who do this). Of course I freely admit I've been lucky in terms of drive, energy and everything else in finding my soulmate, extremely! lucky, though it does very much change my perspective when I consider just how much things have changed for me in how short a time, albeit due to a series of coincidences and circumstances so profoundly unlikely it's actually made me rethink my beliefs about the divine.Either way, nothing changes how one thinks about life quite as much as the prospect of impending mariage . URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259172#p259172 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? [edit: was replying to Dark, it took... a while.]You know? I would have agreed with that 100% 10 years ago, and to the abyss with the Capitalist interpretation of the Puritan work ethic.So, OK, still to the abyss with the Capitalist interpretation of the Puritan work ethic, but Great Gatsby does going a week at a time without human contact and a 23.¾h sleep schedule wreck one's ability to do any of that stuff I was planning to do. Which was largely "write, research, compose, code, design, build... just create and discover in general"-type things. There was a something-something-physics in there at one point, but that didn't ... ah... happen.(Oh, poo, it doesn't recognize the ¾ as a number, so it doesn't read the h as hours. *Adds "learn how to contribute to NVDA and comprehend Formant synthesis" to the list of things that should have done 10 years ago* ... Also that sleep schedule kinda broke in the past couple weeks for reasons mysterious.)I kinda feel like the problem is that there is a time limit that no one ever mentions before it runs out. Miss any of the important skills / opportunities / support system-building in that window where you're expected to be too immature to do certain things but still make a major financial decision in the name of "education"... miss that window, and if the deck wasn't already stacked against you, it certainly will be. How many people have turned their lives around dramatically after their third decade? And that's a generous expansion of the window, IMO.To tell the truth, I'm not feeling especially great about going to LCB. But as nothing else has helped, I'm kinda out of options.(And then Loki spake, saying "Thou knowst what would increase the torments in which introverts in an extrovert-favoring society abide? Verily, blindness and spoilage, for in what manner shall they work, save in hourly consultation with strangers? For spoilage strangles their skills in the cradle, and blindness robs them of the axe and favor among the lords of men.")I know letters and music and Java and Python,Languages Judo and tricks to fake vision,But do you recall...The sole greatest talent of all?(I am not having any luck getting any synonyms... or antonyms for that matter, of conscientiousness / "G" / Executive Function / Diligence / Will power / Focus... OK, I guess Focus fits the rhythm, but it feels like it misses a ton of important nuance. -_- this is what I get for not rereading Tolkien for so long.)(*adds "finish that attempted rant-in-the-form-of-a-Christmas-song-parody" to the list of things to do* ... *If everything on that list takes an average of 10 weeks to complete, it will take 20 years, which would be slightly less daunting had the past 10 years been half of said 20 years.*) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259165#p259165 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? [edit: was replying to Dark, it took... a while.]You know? I would have agreed with that 100% 10 years ago, and to the abyss with the Capitalist interpretation of the Puritan work ethic.So, OK, still to the abyss with the Capitalist interpretation of the Puritan work ethic, but Great Gatsby does going a week at a time without human contact and a 23.¾h sleep schedule wreck one's ability to do any of that stuff I was planning to do. Which was largely "write, research, compose, code, design, build... just create and discover in general"-type things. There was a something-something-physics in there at one point, but that didn't ... ah... happen.(Oh, poo, it doesn't recognize the ¾ as a number, so it doesn't read the h as hours. *Adds "learn how to contribute to NVDA and comprehend Formant synthesis" to the list of things that should have done 10 years ago* ... Also that sleep schedule kinda broke in the past couple weeks for reasons mysterious.)I kinda feel like the problem is that there is a time limit that no one ever mentions before it runs out. Miss any of the important skills / opportunities / support system-building in that window where you're expected to be too immature to do certain things but still make a major financial decision in the name of "education"... miss that window, and if the deck wasn't already stacked against you, it certainly will be. How many people have turned their lives around dramatically after their third decade? And that's a generous expansion of the window, IMO.To tell the truth, I'm not feeling especially great about going to LCB. But as nothing else has helped, I'm kinda out of options.(And then Loki spake, saying "Thou knowst what would increase the torments in which introverts in an extrovert-favoring society abide? Verily, blindness and spoilage, for in what manner shall they work, save in hourly consultation with strangers? For spoilage strangles their skills in the cradle, and blindness robs them of the axe and favor among the lords of men.")I know letters and music and Java and Python,Languages Judo and tricks to fake vision,But do you recall...The sole greatest talent of all?(I am not having any luck getting any synonyms... or antonyms for that matter, of conscientiousness / "G" / Executive Function / Diligence / Will power / Focus... OK, I guess Focus fits the rhythm, but it feels like it misses a ton of important nuance. -_- this is what I get for not rereading Tolkien for so long.)(*adds "finish that attempted rant-in-the-form-of-a-Christmas-song-parody" to the list of things to do* ... *If everything on that list takes an average of 10 weeks to complete, it will take 20 years, which would be slightly less daunting had the past 10 years been half of said 20 years.*) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259165#p259165 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? [edit: was replying to Dark, it took... w ehile.]You know? I would have agreed with that 100% 10 years ago, and to the abyss with the Capitalist interpretation of the Puritan work ethic.So, OK, still to the abyss with the Capitalist interpretation of the Puritan work ethic, but Great Gatsby does going a week at a time without human contact and a 23.¾h sleep schedule wreck one's ability to do any of that stuff I was planning to do. Which was largely "write, research, compose, code, design, build... just create and discover in general"-type things. There was a something-something-physics in there at one point, but that didn't ... ah... happen.(Oh, poo, it doesn't recognize the ¾ as a number, so it doesn't read the h as hours. *Adds "learn how to contribute to NVDA and comprehend Formant synthesis" to the list of things that should have done 10 years ago* ... Also that sleep schedule kinda broke in the past couple weeks for reasons mysterious.)I kinda feel like the problem is that there is a time limit that no one ever mentions before it runs out. Miss any of the important skills / opportunities / support system-building in that window where you're expected to be too immature to do certain things but still make a major financial decision in the name of "education"... miss that window, and if the deck wasn't already stacked against you, it certainly will be. How many people have turned their lives around dramatically after their third decade? And that's a generous expansion of the window, IMO.To tell the truth, I'm not feeling especially great about going to LCB. But as nothing else has helped, I'm kinda out of options.(And then Loki spake, saying "Thou knowst what would increase the torments in which introverts in an extrovert-favoring society abide? Verily, blindness and spoilage, for in what manner shall they work, save in hourly consultation with strangers? For spoilage strangles their skills in the cradle, and blindness robs them of the axe and favor among the lords of men.")I know letters and music and Java and Python,Languages Judo and tricks to fake vision,But do you recall...The sole greatest talent of all?(I am not having any luck getting any synonyms... or antonyms for that matter, of conscientiousness / "G" / Executive Function / Diligence / Will power / Focus... OK, I guess Focus fits the rhythm, but it feels like it misses a ton of important nuance. -_- this is what I get for not rereading Tolkien for so long.)(*adds "finish that attempted rant-in-the-form-of-a-Christmas-song-parody" to the list of things to do* ... *If everything on that list takes an average of 10 weeks to complete, it will take 20 years, which would be slightly less daunting had the past 10 years been half of said 20 years.*) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259165#p259165 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? You know? I would have agreed with that 100% 10 years ago, and to the abyss with the Capitalist interpretation of the Puritan work ethic.So, OK, still to the abyss with the Capitalist interpretation of the Puritan work ethic, but Great Gatsby does going a week at a time without human contact and a 23.¾h sleep schedule wreck one's ability to do any of that stuff I was planning to do. Which was largely "write, research, compose, code, design, build... just create and discover in general"-type things. There was a something-something-physics in there at one point, but that didn't ... ah... happen.(Oh, poo, it doesn't recognize the ¾ as a number, so it doesn't read the h as hours. *Adds "learn how to contribute to NVDA and comprehend Formant synthesis" to the list of things that should have done 10 years ago* ... Also that sleep schedule kinda broke in the past couple weeks for reasons mysterious.)I kinda feel like the problem is that there is a time limit that no one ever mentions before it runs out. Miss any of the important skills / opportunities / support system-building in that window where you're expected to be too immature to do certain things but still make a major financial decision in the name of "education"... miss that window, and if the deck wasn't already stacked against you, it certainly will be. How many people have turned their lives around dramatically after their third decade? And that's a generous expansion of the window, IMO.To tell the truth, I'm not feeling especially great about going to LCB. But as nothing else has helped, I'm kinda out of options.(And then Loki spake, saying "Thou knowst what would increase the torments in which introverts in an extrovert-favoring society abide? Verily, blindness and spoilage, for in what manner shall they work, save in hourly consultation with strangers? For spoilage strangles their skills in the cradle, and blindness robs them of the axe and favor among the lords of men.")I know letters and music and Java and Python,Languages Judo and tricks to fake vision,But do you recall...The sole greatest talent of all?(I am not having any luck getting any synonyms... or antonyms for that matter, of conscientiousness / "G" / Executive Function / Diligence / Will power / Focus... OK, I guess Focus fits the rhythm, but it feels like it misses a ton of important nuance. -_- this is what I get for not rereading Tolkien for so long.)(*adds "finish that attempted rant-in-the-form-of-a-Christmas-song-parody" to the list of things to do* ... *If everything on that list takes an average of 10 weeks to complete, it will take 20 years, which would be slightly less daunting had the past 10 years been half of said 20 years.*) URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259165#p259165 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? Josh, I do realise how some people choose different styles of writing depending on the audience of their writing. However, it is inappropriate and very unprofessional to write a sentence like this on a job application: i am verry qualified for this job bicos im inteligent never arrive at work l8 and am frendli.If you cannot proofread your work because you cannot afford a braille display (and I thought that rehabilitation agencies paid for them?), I was under the impression that the Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired offered a course teaching listening skills to pick up on spelling and grammar errors, though I may be incorrect about this. The American Foundation for the Blind has several resources on the CareerConnect part of their website to assist job-seekers. Don't think that because your life is on a bad course that it cannot be reversed and made better. Whether you want to return to university or take any of the numerous courses available on the I nternet, there are many jobs waiting for you--you just need to find them.As for TVIs, they are "teachers" and not necessarily transcribers. Their goal of teaching you should have ended when you left school; if you think that there are still things that you ought to learn, then you should probably attend any one of the blindness centres to learn good blindness skills.Look forward to the future. Get out into the world and enjoy life. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259164#p259164 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? Granted, and again as I said I did not intend to come across as rude or condescending; I certainly didn't mean to imply that it was his fault and the reason he doesn't have a job. I have, however, over the course of about six years, consistently observed this kind of writing from Josh in almost every post of his I've seen, both on this forum and other email lists we participate in. I simply wished to make him aware that the things I pointed out in post 6 make his writing look unprofessional, and that to me, again going on only my observations as I stated, it would seem to indicate a general lack of attention to detail in that regard. While your (and my and everyone else's) writing contains errors on occasion, I do not observe this same thing in most of the text I see on a regular basis and that is why I wanted to bring it to his attention. It seems like the people in this topic didn't much care for that first post I made, so for that I apologize. I'll see myself out. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259162#p259162 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? @Wanderer, while I take your point on writing and understand what you were attempting, when a person is expressing a huge level of disatisfaction with their life, picking at their writing and saying "It's your fault for not writing better" is not exactly the most tactful of things to do. Whatever else, joshknnd1982 is planely not in a good place right now. Plus of course, how a person writes on a web forum is not in any way indicative of how they would fill in an application for a job or write another formal document, (I can assure you my doctoral thesis gets far more checks for gramar, spelling, spacing, and even basic sentence structure than anything I just dash off hear, indeed philosophy papers particularly are extremely strictly marked on such matters). As to Jobs, well my first question whenever someone says "I want a job!" is "why?" There is a culture (particularly in the Usa but not unknown in Britain), that a person's self wo rth, even standing as a human being is based on what they are paid, irrispective of what else they do or whether in fact they are being paid fairly or doing something that justifies their tallents.I know a blind chap who very much wanted a job and got one. He now spends five days a week working 9-5 at a call center. Because he spends so much more energy and extended time working he literally does nothing else with his life. He just sits at his desk all day answering enquiries on the phone, then has a complex commute back, then arrives at six in the evening absolutely shattered and not able to do more than answer his e-mail before crashing at 9 pm. Weekends he spends at home, he sees nobody, has no friends or other interests, he literally just works and sleeps, heck he doesn't even get much chance to prophet from what money he does make (and not much of that sinse it's hardly a highly paid job). His basic skills like cooking and mobility are pretty bad, sinse he just doesn't have time to learn. Yet empty as his life is, he has a job! he makes some share holders just a little bit richer each and every day, wooo hoo!Of course he, like a lot of disabled people would be better off working part time, however the government provides no provision for that, sinse the government doesn't acknolidge that being disabled things take different amounts of effort. Would people who want "A job" be happier with a life like my friend? methinks not. It often strikes me that people who want "A job" and complain about boardom are more concerned about having some sort of meaning or something worthwhile in their lives, not necessarily getting paid, however that doesn't have to come from a job, indeed given the difficulties of getting any job, much less the even larger difficulties of getting an actually satisfying job, much less the even huger difficulties of getting a job that lets a blind person actually have some sort of life given the energy needed to do that job, I suspect even if someone got a job it wouldn't really solve the disatisfaction anyway.Personally, I view the fact that I don't! have to go off and do something entirely pointless that just makes money for some share holders somewhere as about the only bennifit of having a disability. I'd feel like a total scuzbag if I did! just sit around and play audiogames and read all day, however I've found much more worth while things I can be doing that do! contribute far more to the good of those around me but don't involve making a coorporation a bit richer. Working for this site, working on my doctorate (which I'll be finished with soon), writing book reviews, singing and performing on stage, indeed I'll probably be studdying performing arts next year just for fun.I'd therefore advise anyone who is feeling very disatisfied with their life to look around for worthwhile things to do. Do some volunteer work, get involved with different things, whatever takes your fancy. Don't assume that just because the collective says "everyone should be measured financially" that the collective is telling the truth, heck just look around and you'll see plenty of people with empty, unsatisfying lives who have! jobs, indeed the way the collective values people only according to accumulate fnancially is actually extremely bad for everyone, (accept of course Donald trump and his ilk). The Collective doesn't care much about anyone, so go and tell the collective to take a running jump, after allwhat right has "The collective" to determine a person's worth. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259155#p259155 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? I didn't mean to imply that people should be expected to write perfectly all the time, just that it's not good practice to consistently drop punctuation in multiple places and make run-on sentences. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259139#p259139 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? I think it's something of a "how you learned to type" thing? When I put my hands on the keyboard, my left pinky always winds up on shift instead of A, but I'm pretty sure keyboarding classes have it as "home row, always."The errors I make if I'm in too big a hurry to proofread seem to involve Ts and Ss winding up in the wrong spots, spaces swapped with the last letter of words, and double-capitals at the start of sentences (especially if it starts with a "the" word.). I originally typed the "to" in the first sentence of this post as "ot". Haven't spotted any "hte"s yet. Those things are vicious.So, yeah, I think it's one of those ingrained habit type things.As for jobs? The available jobs compared to the education people are getting are kinda lopsided, and there's this culture clash between the long-time employers and the post-1980 generation, and gah. Suffice it to say, everyone's getting the rough end of it, and being in a sticky place already does us no favors in the rat-race. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259138#p259138 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? As I said I was just going by my observations of the OP's writing. I will point out however that it takes no time at all to capitalize the beginnings of sentences, and I'd hardly call that anything close to APA standards, I'm not sure where that comparison is coming from. The use of proper punctuation is generally taught to a person as they begin to write and should, IMHO, be second-nature. It seems to me like you'd have to make a deliberate effort not to capitalize I. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259136#p259136 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? Sure but this is also an audio games form. No offence this is not a university paper which I just wrote 2 in the last day, and so many that my head is starting to ache. When I am doing things for leisure you can bet the grammar is not up to par and the spelling for that matter to. Yeesh I hate grammar and spelling. To quote one of my friends. "If spelling was a currency I'd surely starve!" Still you are not likely to see anyone writing an APA formatted form post with citations. You didn't go that far but I'm just saying you can lighten up a bit. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259130#p259130 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? I write that way when I'm in a hurry. in professional writing I take my time and write more, well, professionally. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259128#p259128 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? First off, and I'm not trying to sound like a douche here, but your writing is not what I would consider professional quality. Before I go any further I'll say that I may be completely wrong about this and for whatever reason you may choose to write this way on this forum, but from what I've seen of your posts to this board and email lists we're both subscribed to in the past six years it looks like you write like this pretty consistently. If that's not the case feel free to skip past this block of text.The thing that stands out to me the most is your lack of capitalization; you're not capitalizing I (this is very obvious if you're using Eloquence) or proper names. If you look at my last sentence you will see that Eloquence is capitalized, as it should be. Similarly: Braille, Arch, Linux, Spanish, Windows Server. All of these are names of things you've used in your previous posts to this topic, thus they should be capitalized. I' ve also noticed you're sometimes not capitalizing the beginnings of your sentences and not ending them correctly, neither do you put commas where they should be. For example, in post 1 you write:"so what do you all think do you think there were more jobs back in the 1980s and before perhaps even into the 1990s yet"?Which should actually look more like this:"so what do you all think? Do you think there were more jobs back in the 1980s and before, perhaps even into the 1990s"?Look at and listen to that sentence, and make note of the changes I've made:1. "So what do you all think"? becomes its own sentence; I capitalized the first word and added a question mark. Having two sentences run together like this looks (and sounds) very unprofessional.2. A comma is added to the end of "before", indicating a pause. Your synth should reflect this now by correctly inflecting the question.3. Get rid of the "yet", no idea what that was for.Pay attention to your synthesizer. Familiarize yourself with the way it speaks and how it reacts to punctuation. Examine the writing you see online every day. You should start to notice what is correct and what is not. I say all this not to try and sound superior (if I do please accept my apologies, improper punctuation and grammar are pet peeves of mine) but because your style of writing is extremely unprofessional. If I were looking at the applications of prospective IT people to hire, I would immediately reject one that was written this way. This isn't just a consideration for visual readers either; using Eloquence I could immediately detect most of the problems with your writing without having to go back and look, excluding the lack of capitalization at the beginnings of sentences of course, and I have been blind from birth. Good writing is a skill everyone should have, and it becomes increasingly important with hi gher-level jobs like that of a computer technician. I'm not saying you need to be perfect; no one is, and the occasional spelling error or whatever is fine. Just don't write like this, it looks lazy and unprofessional.Second, colleges, as far as I am aware, are legally required to provide you with accessible materials. You must talk to someone in their disability services office in person and advocate for yourself (god I sound like such a cliche, but it's true), letting them know you need electronic books. If they cannot or will not provide such materials, find a different college. Department of Services for the Blind (that's the name of an organization, so it's capitalized) should pay most or all college tuition provided you've applied for financial aid and your GPA is above a minimum. This is something you should take advantage of.Lastly, don't just spend all day playing audio games and watching TV. The Internet is amazing, and just h aving a connection, even a slow one, puts huge amounts of knowledge at your fingertips. You can't program? Check outhttps://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython. Friendly community and lots of good resources there.Educate yourself, even if it's just a little every week. Just endeavor to learn what you can, when you can. Who knows how long our current global civilization and the Internet will be around the way things are going? It's an unprecedented achievement in human history and not something to be taken for granted. Don't stick to blind communities either.If you don't feel like learning a programming language or something else that requires a lot of focus at the moment, read. It's seriously one of the best things you can do, at least to a point. Even fiction books can teach you things; depending on how sheltered you are they could give you valuable insights into how normal people interact socially and what kind of behavior is and isn't expected in certain situations.I realize none of this is going to help you magically get a job, but your chances of being hired will increase if you appear to be educated and professional. An
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Re: where have the jobs gone? and speaking of pizza, how many of you eat the crust? if its crunchy i usually do. but lots of times i eat some of the crust around the edge of the pizza then throw the rest out. it doesn't get good in the microwave. I also like anchovies on pizza. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259117#p259117 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? oops i wanted to post a poll asking how many of you guys out there are bored and wish you had $4 a year jobs? but i see no poll option now that i made the post oh well. i'm glad we have various audio games tv and radio. keeps me occupied. still wish i had a good $4 or so job. i also hope i will be able to manage to save the $500 for the orbit reader 20 braille display when it comes out. Now I'm hungry for pizza. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259112#p259112 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? also i wonder if in the year 2025 when my son is out of school if there will be more jobs? how the economy will be then? i think i can survive being bored for 9 more years. i just wish i could get paid to do what i got certified for, computer desktop repair and maintenance. or should i go the linux route? i'm not a programmer can't do python or c and stuff but i can install talking arch from scratch i did that before awhile back. so if i can install talking arch i should with training be able to admin a linux server. wonder how much that pays? if at all? or is windows server more popular? oh well I'm bored back to watching tv i guess for now. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259110#p259110 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: where have the jobs gone? i applied for several jobs both work at home and otherwise and have had no luck at all around here. playing games and watching tv everyday can get quite boring. i find it amazing that if a sighted person wants a job whether they are divorced or not they can just go out and get one because sighted folks expect other sighted folks to work. the nfb is so into education and jobs and stuff so why don't we have teachers of visually impaired for college so i don't have to sit at a scanner and scan and scan books for hours on hours in the hopes i will be able to then read the book? i studdied spanish in college and failed. no braille material. in high school i could focus on the work and passing and getting good grades. the braille books were prepared before the schoolyear started. i wish it were the same after you graduate high school, through college and beyond. when the place in louisiana found out about the whole divorce and my wife being so sheltered they decided not to hir e me. i don't blame them though. i was required to just take two marriage counseling sessions that was all. it has been nearly five years now. five years of being bored. yes there's moments of fun, going to amusement parts taking my sighted son to local places here in town but i feel i aught to be working. i aught to be doing what other sighted folks do. working. making money. not barely existing on social security. sometimes i think about what it may have been like to work at the place in louisiana what would it be like to make $4 or so maybe more per year? my resume is 5 years out of date. my a plus and network plus computer certifications are expired. no good. i guess if i really wanted more money i could shut off the cable internet and phone. but i can't do that. then i'd be even more bored than i am now. i can reformat and maintain both windows and linux desktops. do all kinds of stuff regarding fixing computers their hardware and OS maintenance. but no job for me. amazing i have all this ability but it just goes to waste oh well. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259108#p259108 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
