Mark,
Department of Rehabilitation Services; (State of Illinois)
It is the wrong office but they could redirect your call.
630 495-0500.
The state of Illinois sometimes hires people and they have listings
available that you and I might have.
Good luck.
Pat, K9JAUAt 08:52 PM 10/18/2013, you wrote:
>Hi
> Yes, my wife connected me with indeed.com. It is a great resource. I am
>also on monsterjobs.com.
>What is the "DRS office"?
>Thank you.
>
>
>God bless,
>Mark and my beautiful wife Noella
>God loves You!
>My YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChristianTraditions2
>The Blind Computer People List:
>http://christiantraditions.info/mailman/listinfo/blindcomputerpeople_christiantraditions.info
>Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TorgersonMark?refsrc=email
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pat Byrne
>Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 7:45 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: bardtalk
>
>Mark,
>Did you go to the DRS office? Not sure which one you would go to -
>probably the only game in town to find anything.
>Consider using "indeed.com" as a job referrral source. I believe
>that is the name of the website. You set it upand every morning you
>will find twenty job listings on your computer. It apparently
>searches other job databases for you. I have mine set to a five mile
>radius of home. Good luck in your search.
>Pat, K9JAU t 09:58 AM 10/18/2013, you wrote:
> >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
> >God loves You!
> >My YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChristianTraditions2
> >The Blind Computer People List:
> >http://christiantraditions.info/mailman/listinfo/blindcomputerpeopl
> e_christiantraditions.info
> >Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TorgersonMark?refsrc=email
> >-----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
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