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From: Joe.Chamberlain@f302.n141.z1.fidonet.org (Joe Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: Career Help
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Date: 12 Feb 90 03:03:20 GMT
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 DW>      Anyway, to make a long story longer, I've been unable to locate
 DW>  anyone who has attained a similar goal with similar disAbilities as
 DW>  I  have.   Calif.   State  Rehab has not been willing to help me in
 DW>  this effort.  I've looked at the local junior collage career center
 DW>  and  found the closest thing is defined as "Therapeutic Recreation"
 DW>  but the information is so vague as to be about  worthless.   Mostly
 DW>  working in rest homes with the elderly.

        If you are losing your job because of your disability and need
retrained in another occupation then Calif. Vocational Rehabilition is
the place to go.  DO NOT TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.  If it is necessary
they are required to everything resonable to make you employable.
                                -=joe=-

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