In my memoir “Breaking Barriers: Working and Loving While Blind,” I described how, during the first several days at my first two jobs, I became tense and disconnected while sitting through programs designed to bond me first with a large federal government agency and later with a stodgy bank on Wall Street. During these “onboarding” programs, my fellow new hires and I completed a mind-numbing amount of paperwork and listened to endless presentations about the glories of the organizations from…..

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