4/18/2011

With my Ticket to Work, courtesy of the SSA, I have this GoToTraining class to complete. It is 3 days, 4 hours each. They gave us a choice of times. There was morning, out of the question. Then there was 2-6 or 8-12. That’s quite a jump. I was hoping there’d be more of an in-between. I chose the 2-6 slot. I completed it and passed. I received an e-mail stating that I am now NTI certified to be a Work at Home (WAH) customer service agent.

The instructor assigned to the class, Stacy Luchs, sounds almost exactly like the woman who played Marianne on True Blood’s 2^nd season. It’s quite uncanny. She (the character) vacillated so much between cool & creepy, that at times it can be off-putting. But mostly it’s cool. Then unfortunately the instructor became sick and lost her voice so she had to have a couple of different people sub for her.

One of the pieces of advice they gave us as disabled people was to make what’s called a functional resume. It’s a resume that focuses more on skills/achievements/education rather than work history. This focus will draw attention away from the gaps in our work history or the long time since we’ve worked as the case may be.