Jack Hamilton
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday Morning at 8am
Veterans Association
Raul Gilbert
Tel 650.566.0240, Email RGilbert@vetsresource.org
From all the veterans I have helped, I believe I have had an enormous
impact. There are a wide range of
people, some of which refused my help, but those who allowed me to help found
out that they could now store all their resumes and job applications in the
cloud, where they could access them from anywhere and be much more efficient
with searching for jobs or permanent housing.
They were very grateful, as I also helped some of them with other
technological issues. One veteran had a
faulty Wi-Fi router at home, so he had to come down to the VA to apply for
jobs, but after asking him some questions, we got to the root of the problem
and he had tech support come to his house and quickly fix the issue. He was then able to do his job searching from
home!
Some of the other volunteer work I did was for the benefit of the VA
itself. They needed to provide the best
facilities possible for veterans to make it easy for them to get
re-established. I spent most of my downtime
between helping people cleaning the computers and getting rid of the various
documents and downloaded files that had accumulated over the years. I helped some veterans transfer the files
they had stored on the computers to their own new Dropbox accounts.
From this experience, I realized how lucky I am that I don’t have to
go through the same grueling job and housing application process that these
people have to go through. They were
sending out dozens of applications and hearing back from only a few. In their position, I don’t know that I’d be
able to stay positive, but they were handing it well and kept sending out
applications and refining the process at my advice. It was humbling to see them work so hard for
things I take for granted daily.
