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Re: jobs star wars and stuff If you haven't heard it yet, you should listen to the "Going blind sucks" podcast. It's done by a husband and wife pair. The husband is loosing his vision to RP (Retonitis Pigmentosa), the podcast is about the trials and challenges he goes through while learning how to live as a blind person. He does a lot of whining and complaining so the primary thing I get from the podcast is an example of how not to behave.I was fortunate in that I had usable vision until I was 55 years old. At 52 my glaucoma, which was well controlled, became very aggressive, nothing I tried could control it, so by the time I was 55 I was declared legally blind. On the flip side, having had vision, I know how major a loss going blind is. Sometimes I've wondered, that if you're going to be blind, if it wouldn't be better to be blind from birth, because then you won't know how major a loss being blind is.While I was going through rehabilitation at The Lighth ouse for the Blind, I learned that unemployment among the visually impaired was around 85%, because it is very difficult, even with laws to discourage discrimination, to get employers to hire blind people. If they have a job, most blind people end up working in sheltered workshops run by people like Industries for the Blind. Unfortunately, most of these jobs are repetitive and boring, that don't require much in the way of skills and so don't pay very well.One of the benefits my last employer included was long term disability insurance. So between that and Social Security Disability Income, my income is about double what I need to live on. So between my income and that I lost my sight late in life, I decided not to fight the high unemployment rate among blind people and retired early.And Josh is right, It can get boring after a while, so I keep my mind busy by working on several ideas I have for audio games.I agree with Dark, all you people that are jum ping all over Josh for the way he types messages on the forums aren't helping any. You are just showing your general lack of consideration and insensitivity. These forums are not a job application or a book or a thesis paper, so what does it matter how he types. To my screen reader, Josh's message sound just fine. So unless you are using a brail display, how do you know how Josh types. To be aware that he doesn't capitalize or use punctuation, you'd have to have your screen reader configured to announce all capitals and all punctuation, or check every message letter by letter. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259312#p259312 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff What has happened in the past cannot be reversed, so look to the present for making amends in your life, not to the past for negativity.Josh, the NFB wants employees who are a positive example of blindness. Due to circumstances that at least appear to be out of your control, you would not be the blindness-is-just-fine-and-life-is-normal person that they would want promoting their organisation.If you want to get back into learning Spanish, I would recommend the Duolingo website and mobile apps which are mostly accessible. They are of very good quality and should be able to help you.Mosen Consulting has just published a book on finding work. You can read about the book by going to www.mosen.org/work.If you are determined about finding work, you should not be sitting at home watching television and surfing the Internet writing on such forums as this one advertising your problem to the world; you should be outside in the streets actively learning skills and looking for work.It would not be wise to look to the future ten years from now when your son is in college as a possible time to find work. The best times of your life for finding employment will have passed you by. I am not able to speak for your son and your ex-wife's family, but I am sure that some people would regard people like you as a blind person who is unfortunately unable to join in regular society, finding stable employment and living a good life; instead--it must be said--it appears that you are at home not doing much with your life. In short, get out there and carpe diem--seize the future. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259290#p259290 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff A paycheck is a paycheck except when it's not. Sticking a blindness organization on your resume is also a good way to guarantee mainstream companies don't hire you, at least if you happen to *be* blind. Oh, you worket at Lighthouse for the Blind? You must not be qualified to do anything serious. That's the mentality companies use. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259237#p259237 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff Clearly you were going to the absolute wrong college. And this in a country where you've got the ADA to fall back on. Ridiculous, but not surprising. Still, this is a problem you could have fixed. for reasons you may or may not have had anything to do with, you did not. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259238#p259238 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff the people at the college were not very good at the time in my opinion. I guess there is lots of room for improvement especially since the unemployment rate among blind people is 75% or more. Also at college whenever I tried advocating for myself they always just gave excuses as to why they could not provide this or that. So I quit college, got married had a kid went to lions world and succeeded, sort of. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259236#p259236 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff the TVI should, if they're worth anything at all, be teaching you to advocate for yourself. Even in 2002, there's no reason whatsoever why people couldn't have known when you got there that you needed materials in a format you could read, unless you didn't say something. Instead of teacher for the visually impaired, your person should have been called shelter for the visually impaired. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259234#p259234 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff well at this point a paycheck is a paycheck. National industries for the blind would have been a good starting point. Then I could have moved back closer to home and worked in the Washington DC area maybe for the light house for the blind or the big NFB place in Baltimore Maryland. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259235#p259235 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff Doing what, though? I guarantee if you're as qualified as you say you are you'd get a better paycheck elsewhere. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259233#p259233 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff Also the TVI does not have a lot of time to spend preparing students for college maybe one or two hours per week. not a lot. even so I'm glad I got the education I got. It was quite helpful in getting my job with the national industries for the blind place even if it was ruined by outside sources. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259232#p259232 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff *writes 8KB response, cuts it when it devolves into misanthropic screaming*I keep trying to say something, and it keeps coming out as an unyielding torrent of negativity.Well, that was an hour wasted. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259231#p259231 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff the blind organization was gunna pay me around $35000 per year. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259226#p259226 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff Well, sure, if you don't mind being paid significantly less than someone sighted for exactly the same job because blindness organization. But then, that's why entire cities push their blind population that way... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259220#p259220 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff No there is yet another choice. I could only choose jobs offered by national industries for the blind. That is how I got the job in Louisiana I looked on the national industries for the blind website. And I successfully found a job until the opportunity was ruined by my wife's family. I applied for many mainstream jobs before sometimes I got interviewed, but they never called back and never were intrested in hiring me. I think my best bet will be the national industries for the blind places. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259219#p259219 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff So because you had your hand held in high school, you think you should be entitled to have your hand held in college. Remind me again why you think you'll survive professionally? the rules for employment are exactly the same, with perhaps very small differences, as the rules for postsecondary education. You are going to be given material. that material is probably not going to be by default adapted to you, particularly if you don't speak up in advance and say you require it that way. You don't get a TVI in college, and you certainly don't get an equivalent if you ever actually land a job. That you're not capable of surviving without one is the fault of the TVI you had for not actually teaching you how to function as a visually impaired person. Your choices now are to learn how or make the best of what you've got. If I were you, I'd choose that first one. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259217#p259217 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff So because you had your hand held in high school, you think you should be entitled to have your hand held in college. Remind me again why you think you'll survive professionally? the rules for employment are exactly the same, with perhaps very small differences, as the rules for postsecondary education. You are going to be given material. that material is probably not going to be by default adapted to you, particularly if you don't speak up in advance and say you require it that way. You don't get a TVI in college, and you certainly don't get an equivalent if you ever actually land a job. That you're not capable of surviving without one is the fault of the TVI you had for not actually teaching you how to function as a visually impaired person. Your choices now are to learn how or make the best of what you've got. If I were you, I'd choose that first one.f URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259217#p259217 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff but i did not get myself that far. through elementary middle and high school i did the work. but i had a vision teacher who 1. transcribed braille to print. 2. prepared all my books so when i got to class i could focus on the work. 3. made sure all work was accessible and in an accessible format ahead of time. they did not teach me how to do this on my own. not really. when i went to college i spent hours and hours scanning books into the computer. foreign language books as spanish was my major and hoping the machine scanned it right. and then after putting forth a huge effort to try and make the stuff accessible. i had to sit down and read it. oh and if the computer misrecognises text? oh well too bad. you fail. now lets contrast that with sighted folks. they go to college. no scanning for hours and hours. they pick up their books and read them. If I ever go back to college I will study to be a teacher of the visually impaired. then in my classes i will be surrounded with f olks who can help me out and who will gain experience from helping to make stuff accessible if needed. I wish there were TVI's in colleges for blind folks. scanning books for hours and hours back in 2002. not fun. and it burnt me out and after that I did not feel like doing the work because I had just spent hours and hours doing my best to put the work in a somewhat accessible format. When I go to school I want to focus on doing the work and passing. I do not want to worry about is this accessible? or is it not accessible? how will I make this or that material accessible? No let that to the TVI. 4 year universities do have disabilities office. But there is no standard among them. I did my best work at Lions world services for the Blind. Everything was pre-made and accessible. No scanning. No figuring out how to make this or that accessible before I did the work. And as a result I focused only on doing the classwork and passed with excellent grades. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259216#p259216 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff I had a job handling end user tech support for Dell back in 2006 before the economy world-wide decided to hit the dirt. Dell, being a US company and a tech company to boot, knew it was about to be rocked hardcore, so took my job and several others and sent them overseas in 2008. I was still hugely qualified, and people were still calling me for interviews, but the economy was on its way down and everyone knew it. I stopped getting callbacks in 2011 or 2012. Not because I stopped being qualified, but because the economy as a whole was at rock bottom then and just about no one who didn't absolutely need to fill a hole was hiring. My last interview was in 2012, and I knew it wasn't going anywhere before I made it back outside. My blindness had nothing to do with it. So in 2013, I started the process to send me back to school - where I'm starting my final semester in a computer systems tech program in September. Throughout that process, I learned a few things very quick ly.thing the first, and related specificly to part of what I think the OP was hinting at: If you don't use it, you *will* lose it. A+ certifications in particular are changing. The A+ cert I go for, assuming I decide to take that route and not the CCNA route, is not the same certification you took 5 or 6 years ago. If you don't renew it every I think it's 3 years, then you are no longer certified and companies will prefer people who are over you whether you're blind or not. It doesn't matter if you can swap out a hard drive in 15 seconds and not leave anything out of place. If it's not on paper, you might as well not have the ability. I can run a Linux server with the best of them, and have on my own personal time for years. but because I haven't done it professionally, and have nothing on paper that says I'm qualified to do it, I can't walk into a job interview and tell them I'm a Linux admin if I expect it to actually get me anywhere. There's an _expression_ we used to use when I was doing the tech support thing. Documentation or it didn't happen. If you call me and say someone did this, this, this and this for you, I'm going to take a look at their documentation. If the person you're talking about didn't put down that they did this, this, this and this for you, then so far as I'm concerned no they didn't. People in HR use the same mentality. If you're going to say you're A+ certified, expect them to want a copy of the certification. If you say you're a Microsoft Windows engineer, expect them to call Microsoft. And if you say you're a qualified Linux admin, expect them to want phone numbers, email addresses and the like for just about every person you've installed, fixed or ran a Linux server for - after you've explained to them what the hell Linux is.Thing the second: Colleges are not there to make you succeed. They're there to give you the option. One of my professors put it best my first day in this program. "I get paid," he said, "whether you show up and do the work or not. You can choose to slack off, miss every second class, half-ass the work and probably end up taking it next semester, or you can show up, ask for help, show me you know what you're doing, and rock the course. The choice is yours, Make the right one and I can help you. Make the wrong one and you're on your own. Also I'll see you next semester." To me, that pretty much summarizes college life in general. You're expected by the time you get there to be able to stand on your own two feet, relatively and proverbially speaking. By the time you've graduated high school, you know the kind of education supports that work for you. The college or university isn't going to hold your hand and guide you through the process. You got yourself this far, get yourself the rest of the way and we'll meet you.Thing the third: Speak up, dammit. Related partly to my point above, only you know what exact supports will work for your education. If you need books in an accessible format (be they electronic or, god forbid, braille), it's up to you to say so. Your college/university has got to have something that vaguely resembles a disability services department. Get on them. Be in regular contact with your profs - preferably before the semester even starts. In short, speak up. When I first started with the program, every prof I talked to was more than a little nervous about having a blind student. It wasn't even because of the blindness, per say. I knew exactly what I was doing and every single one of them knew it. But a blind student had gone through this program before me, and ended up flaming out rather spectacularly. Why? Because he absolutely would not speak up. He assumed, because he was registered with disability services, that materials would be provided to hi m in an accessible format just on basic principle. He assumed the default attitude would be to adapt circumstances to fit him, rather than adapt him to fit the ci
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff Yes, I decided to change the subject to a more general one in the off topic forum because I strayed into topics such as food, and other things. Also I find the Tubio app with the ShinePlus screen reader on android works good and lets me airplay stuff using my blu energy x 8mp camera phone to my apple tv. I can airplay web videos and local videos as well. It's fun. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259207#p259207 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: jobs star wars and stuff Hey have any of you guys seen the Star Wars droid tales tv show? its really funny. you can watch it on the kissCartoon website. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=259206#p259206 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
