Hi Dave: I am almost 70 years old, havent worked in over 20 years and my
only job skills anymore involve visual studio, vb.net and some database. I
was a mainframe pro with a couple of degrees but my chances of landing a job
are slim and his younger sister and they, as you know, are out of town
anyway.
When I could see I had calls from head hunters almost every week,
after I lost my vision it was we will call you if anything comes up but, the
phone never rang.
You need specialized skills these days and available accessibility
work-arounds for a particular job.
There are billions and billions of programmers coming out of university
these days, well perhaps not billions, but allot.
I got a grin out of the auto-pilet car job, ya now that's the ticket. Let me
behind the wheel again, perhaps formula1 or even just my local drag strip,
ya that's the ticket with one of those new 700 horspower babies!
Good luck pappy and as always good hunting!
Rick USA
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Hi rick,
Thanks for the great list of the process I would need to do in order to
land one of these jobs.
My own estimation is not quite as long as yours, but was very similar.
I had made up my mind there was No Way in Hell I was going to involve
the State Agency for the Blind. This makes my task list a bit
shorter.
I have my reasons, most of them Good Reasons. My experience with our
State Agency is if you want to have something get turned inside out and
end up ASS Backwards, go through our State Agency for the Blind. Plus
it takes about 12 months to get something done which should take no more
than three weeks.
My Age is coming into play as I am applying for work. Most of these
jobs are held by younger people and for a good reason. They will work
for less and their minds are still quick and flexible. Mine is not as
Sharp as it was when I was 35 years younger. I'm not stupid, and I am
wiser than most younger people, but learning New stuff does not come as
easy these days.
I am thinking I may need to look for other types of work, something
where the focus is not on Programming or Testing Software.
What that might be, I am still attempting to figure out. Where do older
Software guys go when they know a fair amount about mostly out of date
stuff?
I did have a Highlight while looking for work. For a short time, I had
this guy, paid by a government grant, who was to be a Specialist in
finding work for those who have Handicaps. Any sort of Handicap.
As it turned out, he had only had his job for about 10 months, and his
job was going away in just a few more months when his Grant would run
out of money.
He did send me for an interview, where I would be testing those Cars
that are to drive themselves.
As I was reading through the requirements for the job, one of the very
first requirements was that I had to have an up to date Drivers License,
and that I could Drive.
My task would have been if I had a valid drivers license was to sit
behind the wheel and when the car's navigation system made a mistake, I
was to correct the error by slowing down, turning the wheel to avoid an
obstacle, or to bring the car to a stop.
Now I am quite interested in this kind of thing, so the type of job
would have attracted me.
But, I had to laugh since this guy is to be this Specialist in placing
someone with a Physical limitation. Guess he forgot I was totally blind.
But, I had a good laugh about it. Other than that one little thing,
called a Valid Drivers License, I might still be testing those Self
Navigating Cars.
Thanks again,
Grumpy Dave
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