Starting Work: Apprenticeship Experience

Starting Work: Apprenticeship Experience

In this video Bob Zekas describes his apprenticeship experience.

Zilvinas Paludnevicius

Drs. John S. and Betty J. Schuchman Deaf Documentary Center Collection

2022

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American Sign Language

I first started with an apprenticeship (at The Washington Post). But I was the first Deaf person to do that. There wasn’t another Deaf person who held an apprenticeship until I retired. I worked at a bank for two years. I quit and went to The Washington Post. Learning, becoming an apprenticeship for 5 years and then I became a Journeyman, which was better.

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