Our Jobs Need To Match Our Abilities!

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Now I think I've heard everything!!! I recently mentioned that my iPhone has been giving me trouble, so I upgraded to a new one. I ordered on line, and it was scheduled for delivery today via Canada Post. Because we live in an apartment, all notifications come through our house phone, and not a doorbell. Our phone also has a feature that rings once for a local call, and twice for long distance, but I digress. -- The phone rang a single ring, but only once. My husband picked up, and heard a dial tone. He checked the call display, and saw that it had come from the switchboard downstairs. Not wanting to miss our package, he took the elevator 11 floors down, and met the guy in the lobby. He and the guy got talking, and the guy informed my husband that hwas going blind, and could not read the numbers on the address labels. I think the guy expected a sympathetic pat on the head or something, but he told his sad sale of woe to the WRONG MAN! Hubby is ex-military, and believes that if you can't do the job right, you shouldn't be doing it at all. Hubby and I are BOTH legally blind, and we know what we can and can't do. I've been this way all my life, and hubby is going blind, so we understand both sides. We know how it is to be this way from birth, and how it feels to be going blind. ---- I am teaching my husband how to live with changing vision, and he understands that I don't have a lot of visual memory, because I could never see that well to begin with. ---- I know what it's like to have poor vision, but I also know better than to push it too far, and do a job that I can't do well. My husband had to RETIRE because of his failing vision, because he knew he could not continue the job. Even volunteering doing data entry for a local political organization is something he can only do for a few hours, before his eyes start to go. So why then, should we tolerate someone mis-delivering mail because of their vision? We have not gotten important notices because he puts them in the wrong box. ---- I'm all for people with "disabilities" (I really hate using that word!) having as many job opportunities as the rest, but those opportunities need to be matched to the abilities they DO have!