[acb-hsp] Impossibilities of hope and self-esteem

[Karen Rose]

Hi Peter:  I hope you have not left the list yet and do get this message. 
Reading your post makes me feel both scared and sad.

First, you have not failed anyone--if anything, it is we other blind people 
who are failing you both by not encouraging you in your search and your 
struggles in ways that are meaningful to you and in not directly helping you 
to find the work you are seeking.

I can certainly remember well struggling to find my first job for many, many 
years, through uncounted rejections, and I think we have all shared those 
painful experiences.  But the only failure would have been giving up hopes 
and dreams, no matter how long those dreams are frustrated.

You have mentioned in a previous post that you have majored in political 
science but are really interested in aspects of engineering and IT.  Would 
you be interested in jobs involving statistical analysis for a campaign or a 
polling org?  Alternatively, I know of a computer training program here in 
Berkeley, Ca. specifically designed to train people with disabilities in 
computer networking or in office computer work.  This is Computer 
Technologies Program, and they have two major training programs, a short one 
in office work and a longer one in computer networking.  *They also have a 
90 percent placement rate.*  I would be happy to help you connect with them 
if you like.

In a different post, you indicate a disillusion with the U.S.  Would you be 
interested in doing some kind of internship/work outside the country?

Again, I really, really hope you get this message, that you will not give up 
either on work or on us.

Karen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Wolfe" <peterqwolfe at gmail.com>
To: <acb-hsp at acb.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 12:19 AM
Subject: [acb-hsp] Impossibilities of hope and self-esteem


> Dear all ACB-Human Resource clients,
>
>
>    After my short stay here, I've decided that its best for me to
> leave the list. It was nice to hear your plans for trying to build up
> this ideal group in the future for fellow blind people. I just don't
> share in the optimism of myself nor other blind people by the
> arrogance of various blind professions in and outside of ACB, AFB, NFB
> and others that I see only blame towards the less fortunant to not
> have jobs overall.
>
>    I'm leaving this list with other E-mail list cause I cannot handle
> the stress of trying anymore. I really believe that this is it for me
> on my hopes for a future. I went for five years in under graduate and
> tried numerous places for federal employment and its gone to waste.
> Tens of thousands of dollars, years of education and a utter waste on
> everybody. I'd like to apologize that I failed the blind community and
> future generations of blind students out there. Its just not worth it
> just staying on welfare till they the Congress cuts that too. I wish
> all of you all the luck with sequestration or its equivalent but I
> don't have to worry anymore about any of it.
>
> Thank you and God bless,
> Peter Q Wolfe, BA
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