Hi all,
I agree, it would be interesting and instructive to get some idea of what
other blind people are doing, and especially how, if at all, amateur radio
has helped or been involved in employment!
For me, it was more or less the other way around. I moved down to Tasmania
(in Australia) to manage a radio station, met a chap who is an amateur radio
operator, and the rest, shall we say, is history! I'd been involved in
amateur radio perifferally as a kid, in New Zealand, as my grandfather was
an amateur, and had largely thought the hoby had died! I was greatly
relieved upon coming down here to discover that it was still very much
alive, got my licence, and then discovered e-mail lists and websites about
amateur radio for people with disabilities!!!!
Vaughn Bennison
VK7FADA.
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Junior Lolley
Sent: Sunday, 20 October 2013 03:21
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: jobs
Sylvia, we do not have to have a degree in Florida.
But there is a mandatory 240 hour class you have to take.
Each department has their own set of rules for what you have to have for
working for them.
Junior Lolley kg4itd
Liberty County Emergency Coordinator.
"Be careful how you treat people on your way up because you might meet them
again on your way down!!!"
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Sylvia Bernert
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2013 11:20 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: jobs
I too have been looking into some dispatch positions. I had thought about
being a 911 dispatcher. What are the requirements for that? It seems like
I read somewhere that they want you to have a degree of some kind in medical
and/or emergency communications. I've had 3 years of medical transcription
and terminology schooling, but I don't have any kind of degree in anything.
Just curious.
Sylvia Bernert
"If you can conceive it and believe it, you can achieve it."
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Cathy Larkins
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 5:02 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: jobs
Junior, you are awesome and the smartest man I know!
On Oct 18, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Junior Lolley <[log in to unmask]> =
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> I am a totally blind 911 dispatcher with our local sheriff's office.
> I have been doing this for almost 35 years.
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> Junior Lolley kg4itd
> Liberty County Emergency Coordinator.=20 "Be careful how you treat
>people on your way up because you might meet =
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> again on your way down!!!"
> Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators =
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Scott Gillen
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 5:43 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: jobs
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> Would be interesting to know what jobs people on the list have or had.
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> ma=3D y be help tell for those looking for work. =3D20 =20 Scott
>ZL1XHM / N0HOK Auckland New Zealand =20 Sent from my iPhone =20 On
>19/10/2013, at 7:00 AM, richard fiorello <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:=3D =20 =20
>> Hi;
>> I have found that a significant number of blind folks end up=3D20=20
>> working either for a government agency or an agency that
>> serves=3D20=20=
>> other blind people. True there are exceptions but government=3D20 =
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>> to be the most willing. John you need to keep your name=3D20 out =
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>> A friend very much regrets that he didn't have you=3D20 build him
>> a=20=
>> computer.
>> richard
>> sent from my braille note
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