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I haven’t yet started using Twitter but I have no doubt that the deaf community will catch on to it (witness twittering during the San Diego Fires).

So I found an excellent guide of twittering etiquette.

The Big Juicy Twitter Guide

Get ready to KickStart your career! Think of Facebook with serious networking.

Already there’s one for Gallaudet , RIT, and CSUN, but not NTID.   At least not yet.

I want to thank SprintRelay.tv for their sponsorship of Deaf Resource Center. Without their support I would not be able to keep the website updated more often.

I encourage all to consider using SprintRelay.tv for your VRS services.

Here’s one if you took a dip in the water with your Sidekick:

Save a wet cell phone

Use with caution and common sense.

Found it at CNN’s Money section where readers submitted bulls**t jobs and I didn’t expect to see Relay Services Operator on the list.

Relay is supposed to be a service for the deaf, hard of hearing, and speech disabled where a person using the Internet, cell phone or text telephone reaches an operator, I dial a number for them and relay conversation between a text and voice user.

90 percent of the calls we get are from people who are not deaf, most of them are scam calls or prank calls, so for eight hours a day, 40 hours a week I relay bogus conversations. The benefits are good though. The turnover rate is extraordinary. A few weeks of Nigerian scam calls and teenagers with nothing else to do can take a toll on some people.

Pay: 10.00-10.50 starting with the availability of a promotion after 6 months.

Can anyone from the Relay Services verify that 90% of the calls are NOT from or to deaf people? That’s pretty high and a huge waste of taxpayer’s money.