Re: Vocational Rehab

Perhaps while you are looking for a programming job, you could work on an open source project as a volunteer. Fix some bugs and start to build a "portfolio" of programming successes/examples that you can show to potential employers. No face to face interaction needed, just email. Might help you

Re: Vocational Rehab

On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 09:20:09 -0700 techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: > On 2017-10-16 22:09, trent shipley wrote: > You sound like a candidate for being self employed. If you can > develop a way to generate leads you can spend most of your time away > from the ruckus. But if you're

Re: Vocational Rehab

On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:09:25 -0700 trent shipley wrote: > I have three disabilities, I'm bipolar (well treated with medication), > autistic (high functioning), and I have attention deficit disorder. > (Also, I'm 50, which is effectively another disability.) Three >

Re: arrows and gimp

It sounds like you are doing the sort of thing that you should be using Inkscape.   Creating arrows in inkscape is super easy and they can be easily moved and modified. After importing your image that you want to put arrows on; draw a line with the bezier tool, then go to Object -> Fill and

RE: Vocational Rehab

I’m technically NOT ADD, but my wife says I am. I tend to agree with her at times on this… (“My Dr says I have ADD, but I disagree because … Oooh, look at that rabbit!” :-) Anyway, IF one of your ADD symptoms is the ability to hyperfocus, and the hyperfocussing functions when working on an

Re: Vocational Rehab

On 2017-10-16 22:09, trent shipley wrote: > Dear plug-discuss, > > I currently work as a telephone customer service representative. There are no > sales, but I still hate it, it pays poorly, and I'm bad at it. Yeah, n fun there. > I have three disabilities, I'm bipolar (well treated with

Re: Vocational Rehab

ADD can be great for Software engineering, but very challenging for Waterfall testing cycles. however If you document your code and what you are doing you can still code quite nicely. In It you will have similar mundane things where the ADD kicks in and make it challenging. Having lived with ADD

arrows and gimp

I know how to create my own arrows but that looks kinda sloppy. I did a web search but the first one I found was for ver 2.6 and Mine is ver 2.8. The results for that search was much more promissing but the scm files that were available for download resulted in a page that said file not found.

Re: Vocational Rehab

another area of interest could be database management, especially on older oracle based database systems (like 11g). there is a shortage of people there as well. -eric from the central office of the technomage Guild, Vital Statistics management. On Oct 17, 2017, at 12:44 AM, David Schwartz

Re: Vocational Rehab

I don’t mind talking with you, but I think you’re being given some rather biased advice by someone who probably has no experience in the field. Programmers as a whole tend to be introverts and rather anti-social. At least us older folks fit that mold. The younger ones are a bit more sociable.

Re: Vocational Rehab

I am also a victim of the state vocational rehab system. Being blind, over age 50, etc., I spent the last several years trying to get trained to work with jaws, windows and the office applications. The state closed my case 2 months ago after a year of not assigning me a new caseworker. they

Re: Vocational Rehab

You would be surprised how good a fit it can be. The problem with most people doing Q/A is that they are linear thinkers. A fair amount of ADD makes you far more of an out of the box thinker. You are more random, and would actually accel over time in that role. It will be tougher in the

Re: Vocational Rehab

Hey Trent, One of the best Network Admins I have ever worked with had Asperger's. So I know it can be done... But it has some serious challenges. Most web developers will have more interaction with a wider group of people than the average programmer in my opinion. Also, good HTML code is far