>> Work has benefits of offering an opportunity for me
to show what I can do.
>> It took me, actually, quite a while to get that first job,
which I think in some part was due to me having a disability.
>> I have not had the work challenges that Joe has had.
I have always worked.
I started working, you know, my summers when I was 14.
I had a job through college.
I got a full time job right after college.
I've been able -- I've been very lucky and blessed to have that.
>> With work, I felt like I had to prove myself,
that I had to make sure everything was turned
in before it was due.
>> Even in an agency that works with folks who have disabilities
and helps them get to work, I'd love to say
that everybody is enlightened and that's not true.
I would say within my own agency I've had, I think,
probably better opportunity here.
I guess I'm more shocked by the people even in this building,
that many of whom I worked around for a very long time,
who will ask me questions like,
how many hours a day do you work?
I'm like, which job?
This one or the one I do to moonlight and teach online
in a graduate program at a, you know, at a college?