Hi
     I have applied for 4 jobs so far this week. Thus far none of them have 
worked out. This being said, my long term goal is to be an Episcopalian 
priest. However, I only have a bachelors in Christian Studies. In order to 
become a priest I will have to earn a masters, and also complete what is 
called the process of discernment. Since I moved to a new local church when 
I got married. I am having to restart the process. So, first I must be 
approved by a discernment committee in the local church. They will recommend 
me to the local church vestry. Which will decide if they want to approve me 
to be recommended to the regional Bishop. If the bishop approves of me, they 
can recommend me to the commission on ministry. If the commission on 
ministry likes me, they can give the formal recommendation back to the 
bishop that I should be approved for seminary. Once I have jumped through 
all these hoops, I can then go to seminary for another three years. However, 
just getting through seminary does not guarantee me a paid position. I may 
only end up with being ordained but not actually having a church of my own 
to work in. Generally, only priests who are rectors of church congregations 
get paid.
     Thus, I am currently looking for what ever work I can get. I went to 
the local place that is supposed to help blind people find work, and they 
never even gave me a follow up call. I found out through the grape vine that 
they felt I was over qualified for their program. So, they have no intention 
of helping me. I guess I need to be under educated to meet their criteria. I 
keep trying to find work though.



God bless,
Mark and my beautiful wife Noella
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Richard Fiorello
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 9:04 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: bardtalk

Hi;
I was trying to be on my good behavior but can't resist.  Personally
they should have saved the paper and done something more substantial.
After I retired in 2007 got board and went looking for a retirement job.
  Didn't want to many hours and didn't need any excess stress.  I was
primarily looking at call centers since I can talk on the phone and use
a computer.  Guico which you have all seen on the tube has a call center
in the area and never hired a blind person.  A local bank hired a girl
at their call center who fell in love and left.  I started working at
something called roswell park cancer institute.  The job would certainly
not have been my choice for my life's work but this was for extra cash.
  Discovered that lots of their software wouldn't work with window-eyes
or in some cases they simply refused to try it with window-eyes because
their software had issues and there were concerns that a screen reader
might make things worse.  There was some of their software that was
usable and I've been doing my part time thing for a while.  They
recently came out with a new program and when you go through the
material you have to read there are about four scanned words.  Why these
words were scanned in rather than put in via txt is a mystery but it
made that little project unusable.  There are lots of potential jobs out
there thanks to the computer but companies or hospitals especially those
living on grant money should be required to make their software usable.
So we have lots of new jobs that in many cases can't be done by a blind
person because of software issues and older jobs that many uf us may
have never considered such as vending and tuning are going away.  Don't
think a vender in a hospital has much of a chance when a Duncan
doughnuts opens in the lobby.
To end on a positive note, however, if anyone out there is job shopping
the trick is to stay in the market and sooner or later something will
come up.
-- 
richard