duckamus:

I need help

My name is Duckie.

I am 26 years old, disabled, fighting every day to keep my head above water.

I have been diabetic since I was 3 years old. Since then I have had a hard streak health wise.

I have neuropathy from high blood sugars damaging my nerves. I struggle with pain daily. I also have gastroparesis, which makes me nauseous all the time. That plus my blood sugars being so brittle, it’s impossible for me to keep any job.

I keep trying. I push myself to exhaustion.

I have been fighting to get on disability benefits, though so far I have only been denied. I even hired lawyers, and they had to let me go.

So I am applying again, jumping through the hoops. I don’t know what I am going to do if they don’t help me.

Already I have to fight my insurance for medications.

My partner let’s me stay with her, but before this I was homeless.

I can’t go back to that

If anyone can help me, $1 or $50, every dollar helps.

My paypal email is jasonanain@yahoo.com

I also have venmo, facebook, and chase account.

I will happily talk to anyone who has questions

Please reblog and share!

xoxo

Duckie

the-real-numbers:

theopjones:

Except for reblogging this one a few times, I will probably start positing a lot about other things, and tone down the posts on the job searching stuff. I’m going to revise and consolidate some of the resume type posts I’ve done in the hope that someone knows some leads (even suggestions on what types of jobs to apply for, or keywords to look for in job listings would be helpful).

I people think this is too long, I can put more of it behind the read more. 

It would be very helpful if people reblogged this, on the hope that it eventually gets seen by someone who knows someone who could hire me, or at least provide feedback and advice (even more general career advice would be very helpful). 

I recently moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and am staying with various people until things settle down. (for the backstory, see my parents tag, and my job notes tag). I’m kind of interested as a dream job something in the IT or tech field (although I have relatively few formal credentials in this, but lots of knowledge gained as a hobbyist). But I am very flexible in what type of opportunity I could take, as I am primarily wanting to get a decent job quickly. With my main goal being to get some degree of a solid income, and enough financial stability. 

But here are some of my skillsets 

Education: I recently graduated with a dual degree Bachelor of Science in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of Arizona. (posting this  here because of its relevance to some advice that people may have) I have a GRE score of 170/99th percentile on verbal reasoning, 159/73rd percentile on quantitative reasoning, and 4.5/82nd percentile on writing. 

Writing/Communication/Standard Office Skills: I am a very strong writer, and have good over-all communication skills. A rhetorical analysis essay I wrote placed second in the University of Arizona’s 2013 essay contest and was featured in the textbook, A Student’s Guide to First-Year Writing. I trained and worked as a preceptor (similar role as a teaching assistant) for an Honors College English class, Advanced Analytical Writing and Thinking. Of course, I have experience with the usual standard business/office software. I was a tutor at an university disability center

Tech/Programming: I have substantial knowledge in both IT and programming. I probably know enough for entry level sysadmin/helpdesk jobs. As a hobbyist, I have managed servers and VPSes running software including NGINX, Apache, and MySQL, and I have solid entry level knowledge of the administration of LAMP servers. So, I have a good entry level skillset there. I also have good understanding of the UNIX/Linux command line. I have used Python/R scripting a lot in research internships. Have also taken four computer science classes. Probably, I know enough coding for it to be a supplemental skillset for other jobs, but not enough to be an actual programmer as a primary job task.

Geography/GIS: I am a geography major, I have knowledge of ArcGIS and QGIS, and knowledge of remote sensing methods and spatial statistics/analysis.This is probably my largest formal job skill. The only paid work I had while in college was a year long internship at a lab, where I looked into the carbon residence time of plants in an ecosystem in Southern Arizona using in large part remote sensing methods. Its less job skill relevant, but a large share of my coursework in geography is in human geography, and environmental geography/biogeography.

Biology: I studied a field-emphasis subset of biology, and have very little lab experience but from classes I do have basic lab skills, and basic familiarity with things like PCR and gel electrophoresis.  Also, I have knowledge about environmental science (including the policy side like NEPA and Endangered Species Act, having taken a course particularly focusing on environmental law).

Constraints/Disabilities: I do not have a drivers license, so, I am reliant on mass transit. I have issues with visual spatial coordination and accurate handwriting, and can not draw accurately.

Below the read more is a resume of mine

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@theopjones is a good person looking to get out of a tough, abusive situation. Your inquiry to someone you know about a job opening or even a simple reblog could have a major positive impact on their life.