Hi,
If it's not too personal,what did you do for a living?
Many things including marketing communications, public relations,
teaching, performing, art making, readings (since I retired). Pre
retirement I worked in a number of Fortune 500 doing advertising, pr,
marcom. I have a MBA and a MSJ.
I can't make sculptures any more-- my kilns, tables and materials are
in the basement.
I can't teach ( workshops on poetry, short story writing,
papermaking, altered books, beadmaking
to name some of the ones I used to offer) because I can't get anywhere
I made money giving poetry readings but without transportation I can't do it.
My last performance was in 2008 with a harpist, because that
organization had a grant and paid
the school bus company $100 to bring me 12 blocks to the arts center.
How could they fire you for being in a wheelchair? This happened in
NY state? Could you have sued for discrimination?
Sure if I had money. If you're asking about the job I was fired from,
I was the director of marketing and
development for a nonprofit.
I wasn't fired,just could not work due to the aftereffects of
tm. I was an RN in an acute care hospital.
The transportation issue is screwy here. You have to live within
2 miles of a fixed bus route. My friends mother lived 1 door down
from a bus stop,and could get the handicapped van to pick her up! I
live 3 miles from the center of a small city,and need to depend on
relatives for rides. No taxis here,and a bus in the center twice a
day.
Cheryl in Easthampton,MA.
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