WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.656 --> 00:00:07.106 >> Work has benefits of offering an opportunity for me 2 00:00:07.106 --> 00:00:10.646 to show what I can do. 3 00:00:11.076 --> 00:00:14.166 >> It took me, actually, quite a while to get that first job, 4 00:00:14.166 --> 00:00:21.376 which I think in some part was due to me having a disability. 5 00:00:21.456 --> 00:00:25.256 >> I have not had the work challenges that Joe has had. 6 00:00:25.256 --> 00:00:26.736 I have always worked. 7 00:00:26.936 --> 00:00:31.006 I started working, you know, my summers when I was 14. 8 00:00:31.306 --> 00:00:33.276 I had a job through college. 9 00:00:33.276 --> 00:00:35.606 I got a full time job right after college. 10 00:00:36.116 --> 00:00:40.326 I've been able -- I've been very lucky and blessed to have that. 11 00:00:41.206 --> 00:00:45.256 >> With work, I felt like I had to prove myself, 12 00:00:45.646 --> 00:00:48.436 that I had to make sure everything was turned 13 00:00:48.436 --> 00:00:50.226 in before it was due. 14 00:00:50.336 --> 00:00:54.716 >> Even in an agency that works with folks who have disabilities 15 00:00:54.866 --> 00:00:57.326 and helps them get to work, I'd love to say 16 00:00:57.326 --> 00:01:03.476 that everybody is enlightened and that's not true. 17 00:01:03.526 --> 00:01:06.896 I would say within my own agency I've had, I think, 18 00:01:07.086 --> 00:01:09.446 probably better opportunity here. 19 00:01:09.996 --> 00:01:14.946 I guess I'm more shocked by the people even in this building, 20 00:01:14.946 --> 00:01:19.216 that many of whom I worked around for a very long time, 21 00:01:19.746 --> 00:01:23.586 who will ask me questions like, 22 00:01:24.356 --> 00:01:26.806 how many hours a day do you work? 23 00:01:26.806 --> 00:01:29.936 I'm like, which job? 24 00:01:30.346 --> 00:01:34.746 This one or the one I do to moonlight and teach online 25 00:01:34.746 --> 00:01:37.996 in a graduate program at a, you know, at a college?