I work for a hospital and have done the home business on the side also.
Right now the hospital is looking at installing software that at this
point
seems not to work with a screen reader although my boss keeps telling me
it
has to work. I may in the end be working from home again, maybe for a
service, maybe back on my own although I really don't want to do that. I
have spent the last 30+ years at the hospital working part-time for a time
and full-time for most of that time. The only reason I have not already
quit over this new software stuff is that I am basically at the top of the
pay scale and would not be if I went elsewhere.
I love to read by listening using the computer, the braille note, tapes,
or
reading braille again with the Braille note. If it is technical I need it
under my fingers, if it is for pleasure speech is fine and the faster I
can
go and still understand the better I like it, means I can read more books.
One reason I did not go back I suppose is that originally I wanted to
teach
and there were so many hassles for me in the early 1970s in that area. I
don't want to teach, now, at least not on the elementary or secondary
levels, know I don't have the patience for it. I can't go to nursing,
obviously, or medical school what a joke that would be, me, the person who
passed out in high school biology class trying to dissect a frog! I have
considered some sort of healthcare administration degree but know that
even
having that I would not be promoted at the hospital.
I suppose I could have continued on for just a liberal arts degree and
then
honed in if I wanted a Master's but, once I started working, due to the
excess time I spent initially learning the terminology medications etc,
and
such I just never found the time. In 1996 my husband was told his job
would
eventually no longer exist and he returned to University Of Phoenix Online
to get his BS degree which got him a nice promotion out of his job which
was
a good thing. In late 2004 he decided to get his Master's degree, again
with UOP Online.
Most of his texts for the BS degree were print books, however, in his
Master's program it was all online PDF documents. I scanned the Greg
Style
guide so he could read it on the computer and thought abut submitting it
to
Bookshare but there are a few scanner errors and I have not had the
patience to clean it up, and it was an edition written with lots of
references to University Of Phoenix students in it so I was not sure if I
should submit the book. It is a great reference for me on occasion
however.
If I could set my course and sail along I'd go back but at my age it may
be
too late to give me an edge. Can't seem to focus on a particular field
however.
Rose Combs
rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: DIANNE B. PHELPS AND PRIMROSE [mailto:d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:11 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
Rose,
Your story is so much like mine that it gives me goose bumps. I did
finish,
as I said, my Batchelor's, but once I really started working, I found it
was
simply not easy to get back to college.
I enjoyed my years as a medical transcriptionist, especially when I set up
my own business at home with speech on computer and printer right at my
desk, etc. I found I really loved medicine and felt that had things been
different with my vision, I might have become a doctor.
I had an accident about seven or eight years ago which closed my business
and put me out of commission for quite a while. I went back to work a
couple
of years after that on a part-time basis, but it drove me nuts, and I then
formally retired. I am not really sold on retirement, except that I read
constantly, and I think my mission is to make up for all the years when I
couldn't get much reading done. I feel I acquire much pleasure from this
as
well as knowledge, and perhaps, that is the way I am suppose to acquire
more
knowledge.
Dianne and
Guide Dog, Primrose
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rose Combs" <rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:16 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
I don't usually post I agree with you messages, however, in this case I
agree. I too admire those in pursuit of advanced degrees. I was in my
junior year when circumstances were such that I needed to stop and I said
I
would finish my bachelor's degree later. I studied and became a medical
transcriptionist believing it was a job that would allow me to complete
my
degree and that was over 30 years ago. I have never gotten back to it,
but
I hope with today's technology it would be easier.
My husband completed his BS in information systems management and then
got
his Master's degree in information systems management all within the past
ten years and I helped him with some of the research, something that 30
years ago I hated to do. Thank goodness for the Internet and Bookshare.
Rose Combs
rosecombs@xxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: DIANNE B. PHELPS AND PRIMROSE [mailto:d.bphelps@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:59 PM
To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
I so admire those of you who have had the courage to go on to higher
education. Things were difficult when I received my Batchelor's degree,
and
the thought of going after more education which I thought I would do
seems
absolutely overwhelming to me. I think in many ways, it would be easier
than
it was nearly forty years ago, but hitting those snags would challenge me
for more fighting power than I feel I have at this point in my life.
I wish all of you who are pursuing advanced degrees the very best. You
have
lots of courage to go for it.
Dianne and
Guide Dog, Primrose
----- Original Message -----
From: <zaria797@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 11:26 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
Grin, I'm not whining about it; it just aggravates me no end when ppl
whine about why they can't do their jobs or tell why it would be easier
if
I would just do it *their* way.
I spent two hours explaining to the coordinator of disability services
why
I couldn't use a pdf copy of the book she had dutifully scanned because
the publishers wouldn't provide me with a word version.
I spent more time fighting the access mountain than I did learning.
Debra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 12:48 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
Hey it is normally the challenge of all the blind students at a
college,
not
just you. Smile.
Believe me, I had a difficult time getting my masters.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Alumni Association Board
www.guidedogs.com
Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
Puppies are the joy at one end.
Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
Carolyn Alexander
----- Original Message -----
From: <zaria797@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:43 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
Zaria is my first Leader Dog and Lily is my second.
My first master's degree is in School Psychology and the second is in
Counseling & Guidance. They are related fields but in Texas, you can't
practice psychology without supervision or bill
Medicaid/Medicard/insurance.
I'm going to be practicing as a grief and bereavement counselor at a
hospice
inpatient unit.
I've had no end of difficulties with this master's since accessibility
has
been an ongoing problem with books and WebCT and online sites.,
probably
due
to the fact that I don't "do" things like the *other* blind students at
our
campus. I'm not quite blind enough or deaf enough, lol.
As for being interesting?
Bah humbug <vbg>
Debra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 6:56 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
Zaria (what a pretty name!).
What are you getting your second Master's in, and what
is your first one in?
We have such interesting people on this list--all
kinds of interests and jobs, present and former.
Cindy
--- zaria797@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I love your dog's name.
i can tell I'm going to bankrupt my husband with all
these new gadgets I'm
learning about from this list. Sure hope this
second master's provides me
with the income to satify my book fetish.
Debra
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
> Hey Deb.
>
> Is all good. Smile. Actually i joined the game
"late" as you are calling
> it didn't learn braille till college.
>
> use both formats.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
> and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Alumni Association Board
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
> Puppies are the joy at one end.
> Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
> Carolyn Alexander
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <zaria797@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:16 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Html book?
>
>
> Another reason is that some are unable to use
Braille due to retropathy.
> For me, I am unable to read standard print tho I
can read print if it is
> zoomed up to a bigger font size and the colors are
inverted. i've only
> recently started using text to speech and still
find the voices somewhat
> difficult to understand but am steadily plowing
onward. I didn't start
> losing my sight until the age of 35 and my brain
was too befuddled with
> all
> the daily living skills to worry about learning
Braille when there were
> other options open to me.
>
> Different strokes for different folks. We all
muddle thru in our own way.
> Let's help each other without making any issue of
how we do things
> differently. Some of us don't know all the
options open to us cuz we are
> coming into the *blind* game later.
> It is nice to have those who have been at this
game longer willing to lean
> a
> hand to us newbies!
> Debra
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