Re: Training Centers
@arqmeister
I think you misunderstand. The point of these programs can be to get you a job, but for many blind people they aren't even close to that point. There's a lot of skills that you need before you can consider something like college or vocational training, and many of these training programs aim at teaching these skills. Quite a few blind people I know and have met over the years personally do in fact need the confidence boosting stuff, many need the how-to-walk stuff, and even the best and most skilled blind people will, at some point, have difficulties with something in the category of independent living. These days, a secretarial job almost means that you might as well stay home and on SSI, and there's not much you can get without at least a two-year degree. To even try for something beyond a high school diploma, you need this. If you're already at the point of knowing what you want to do, then you're ahe
ad of most.
Also, a blind person can probably do computer hardware repair. I doubt that you can turn it into a paying job-there are a lot of colored wires, labelled sockets, and the like. Connecting something even slightly wrong can damage the component or fry the entire system, and all motherboards and power supplies have differences. At worst, you'd have to learn every motherboard and every component you wanted to replace. You'd probably only have to fry one or two systems to be fired, and not much more than that to be disregarded if you're working for yourself. If you actually find a way to do it without sight at a professional level, let me know-the most I've ever heard of is familiarity with one's own system, and I would hesitate a *lot* to give mine to another blind person for repair. All it would take to do major damage, in some cases, is "Oops, this power supply was backward"-known to fry the motherb
oard on some cheep systems, especially old ones.
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