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>> Work has benefits of
offering an opportunity for me

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to show what I can do.

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>> It took me, actually, quite
a while to get that first job,

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which I think in some part was
due to me having a disability.

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>> I have not had the work
challenges that Joe has had.

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I have always worked.

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I started working, you know,
my summers when I was 14.

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I had a job through college.

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I got a full time job
right after college.

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I've been able -- I've been very
lucky and blessed to have that.

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>> With work, I felt like
I had to prove myself,

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that I had to make sure
everything was turned

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in before it was due.

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>> Even in an agency that works
with folks who have disabilities

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and helps them get to
work, I'd love to say

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that everybody is enlightened
and that's not true.

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I would say within my own
agency I've had, I think,

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probably better opportunity
here.

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I guess I'm more shocked by the
people even in this building,

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that many of whom I worked
around for a very long time,

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who will ask me questions like,

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how many hours a
day do you work?

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I'm like, which job?

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This one or the one I do to
moonlight and teach online

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in a graduate program at
a, you know, at a college?