Mark,

Good thing the Apostles didn't have to go through all that stuff.  You 
should try being a Baptist.  All you need is a Bible and some folding 
chairs and you are in business.

Good luck with the job search, new marriage, and future plans.  Hope to 
hear you some Saturday on the 40 meter roundtable.

73, Steve KW3A

On 10/18/2013 10:58 AM, Mark WZ0K 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!
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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.
>