| As someone who has faced poverty, adversity, disabling illness, and homelessness first-hand, I have a strong drive for helping others and I genuinely enjoy solving problems. I love challenges, and excel at finding solutions in creative and unexpected ways, and workarounds that can bring two sides to a central solution. I hope to combine my technical skills with my social advocacy experience to make a career of solving problems, developing and implementing solutions that help people, and creating a positive, supportive, inclusive work environment.
I was diagnosed and started recovering from longstanding mental illness in 2016, and in the process, started finding myself. With the burden of my mental illness lifted, I have regained control of my life. I have worked hard to resume the lifestyle of an enabled person, one who is not being crushed by illness. I am motivated and ready to catch up on all the “normal life” I have missed due to my disability. I am focused on my future, and what I can give back. I completed dual Associates of Science in Information Technology and S.T.E.M Studies at Community College of Vermont in 2019/2020. I am seeking opportunities to advance my education and career by volunteering or advancing through internships for professional or non-profit organizations. I offer my skills to assist organizations with technical writing, research, IT support, or website design. My wide range of prior job experiences have qualified me for a vast number of positions. I am qualified to assist with website design or maintenance, office technology troubleshooting (PC set up and maintenance, office equipment, wired/wireless network design and troubleshooting), social networking, community outreach, office administration, kennel/cattery management, veterinary assistance, retail merchandising, shipping & receiving, and feet-on-the-ground community service actions. My primary areas of interest are organizations which serve as homeless shelters, organizations which serve the homeless, animal rescues or shelters, disaster and humanitarian relief efforts, poverty alleviation (I am Bridges out of Poverty trained), social service agencies, mental health organizations working within our communities to serve marginal populations, and professional associations, fraternal organizations, or clubs dealing with technology/engineering. I want to work where I will make a difference. |
About the Author
Jules was born J.D. O’Guin in 1975 in Memphis Tennessee, growing up in a poverty-ridden suburb just far enough north of the city to be isolated from resources, but close enough to have all the social malfunctions of inner-city life. The O’Guin family consisted of a father who worked from before daylight to after dark every day just to try to keep the lights on, a mother with a drug and alcohol addiction, and the author oneself. As a child, Jules' dream was to someday become an architect, which then became an interior designer, and followed by simply hoping to live through the experience of life – to be a survivor. In 2003, Jules moved to Vermont and has never looked back. Jules is nonbinary. Pronouns: They, them, theirs - if these make you uncomfortable, avoid using pronouns completely and simply use Jules.
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