My main problem with moving is my wife doesn't want to leave her family. 
Fact is though, I just started applying in other parts of the country 
figuring if the pressure is on, but there's a job somewhere else, maybe 
she'll be a little more willing. Her family is all on disability so if they 
want to move to where we do, it's not any big deal, my mother's close to 
retirement and I'm not really close with anyone else in my family beyond a 
favor here and there and I don't like it here anyway so I have and never 
have had any problem moving where the work is. It was always my wife wanting 
to stay near family but with neither of us having any luck and so many 
people telling us they moved here or there and the job market is doing 
great, and more and more people laid off daily here, I decided to just start 
looking. If I find something, we'll see what she says then. For now, my yard 
equipment is all trash pile stuff I fixed up and got running, some 
appliances and what not are the same story, I take on odd jobs and repairs 
and do what I can to survive.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: hard work


>I live in a place where industry and commerce are booming.  This means
> people from all over the country are coming here to work.  We have too 
> many
> jobs and not enough people to fill them.  So, companies are actually going
> out to other provinces, Ireland, the Phillipines and around the world on
> recrootment drives.  Offering to cover transportation costs, moving costs
> and assistance with finding housing here, and selling homes if it applies 
> in
> the places they recroot in.
> In the oil and gas industry, money flows like oil so to spend 10 or 15 
> grand
> on getting a warm body to work is nothing.
> My point isn't to gloat, but to suggest that when times are hard, moving 
> to
> where the work is at, is what many many people do disabled or otherwise.
> It comes back to creating your own opportunities and not waiting for them 
> to
> drop into your lap.
> If that means pulling up stakes and moving to where the work is, then 
> that's
> what it takes.
> My family did this 3 times between the time I was 4 and 13.  Each time
> moving nearly 1600 miles to go to where there was work for my dad.
> My parents didn't have much money, but we always managed to do the moves 
> on
> a hope and a prayer.
> One time we moved 1600 miles with a minivan and a 68 Shev quarter tonne
> pickup and a small You Haul trailer.  We couldn't afford to use a freight
> company so we packed everything into a 14 foot you haul trailer, and the 
> bed
> of the truck and in and on top of the van.
> We tented it in free camp grounds along the way, because again, no money 
> for
> hotels.
> We stayed with friends and family for 5 weeks after we arrived so my dad
> could save enough for rent and damage deposit in a crappy apartment.
> Anyway without borring everyone with the entire story, the point here is
> that you can go to where the work is and find it if that's what you need.
> I strongly suspect allot of the issue is that there isn't allot of
> motivation other than jealousy or bitterness to get work for some.  Many
> receive just enough from the state to survive IE pay rent, eat and have a
> phone and internet.  As long as the basic necesities are being met, it's
> easy to bich and moan about how other people have more, but at the end of
> the day, you are surviving so there isn't allot of motivation to go out 
> and
> find a job.  There isn't enough desperation.  There are wants and so on, 
> but
> the needs are being met.
> It's easy to become lazy and complaisant when your basic needs are being 
> met
> by a monthly check from the state.
> Most non-disabled people don't have that option and so they must find
> gainful employment or they end up on the street.  There aren't too many
> blind people out on the street if anyone has noticed.
> I speak from personal experience in this matter.  It took me a long time
> after finishing school to become gainfully employed and there were periods
> in that time where I did get lazy and complaisant because at the end of 
> the
> day, rent was getting payed, there was food in the house, the basic bills
> were being payed...i didn't have an extra dollar to play with but I was
> surviving on my own and had friends who would help out with a couple beers
> or a dinner out now and then because they new my situation.
> So yes, I know it's easy to get lazy when your on the dole.
> I tried for 5 years to get a job in the field I was certified in, and 
> ended
> up getting a job that has only a little to do with what I spent 2 years
> getting trained in.
> So the point there is that you have to keep the options open and not 
> narrow
> the field so much that you won't find anything.  You also have to foster
> those networks and spend the time.
> It's a well proven fact that in order to be successful in job hunting, you
> must spend at least 4 hours a day in direct pursuit of employment.  These
> days it is all online so we as blind people have no excuse to say we have
> any difficulty going out and dropping off resumes.  It's super uncommon to
> have people drop off resumes anymore, and most employers ask that you only
> submit resumes or applications online....but you have to apply on hundreds
> of jobs.  Even here where the labor market is so tight, you have to apply 
> on
> hundreds of positions each week to get one or two responses, and you might
> get an interview once in a two week period out of 500 job applications.
> Once an interview is scheduled, then you can worry about getting there and
> presenting yourself.
> I understand the frustration with not being able to get work...but if one
> only looks once in a while, or when you have time or whatever then it'll 
> be
> an awfully long time before one gets work.  4 hours a day is less than 
> half
> the time you'd spend working anyway, so it's a pretty good trade off.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 11:51 AM
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: hard work
>
>> There are sure no opportunities around where I am and less and less every
>> day as more and more places close up shop. I'm looking elsewhere now.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "richard fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 11:32 AM
>> Subject: hard work
>>
>>
>>> Hi;
>>> True lots of opportunities are drying up but I do think that
>>> there are lots of new ones out there.  I retired in 2007 because
>>> I could.  By 2009 I got boared and needded a parttime job.  Ended
>>> up with a rather strange parttime job doing telephone work but
>>> its relatively brainless and works with window-eyes.  I suggested
>>> to the local rehab types that they might consider sending other
>>> folks this way.  The answer I got was that we don't really have
>>> anyone looking for employment.  Hum.
>>> As for screen readers, I worked for a federal agency for 32 years
>>> and they wouldn't deal with anything but good old jaws.  Often
>>> wondered if its the name job access with speech that gets these
>>> people so into jaws.  I'm not a jaws basher but gave up on mine
>>> because just couldn't keep up with the updates and didn't really
>>> see what some of the updates did.
>>> Also speaking of jobs has anyone noticed what is being charged
>>> for apple training over the phone? 30 to 45 per hour isn't
>>> uncommon.  Now there's another opportunity.
>>> richard
>>> sent from my braille note