neighborhood2

Shakita Calhoun
E8TP
Creative Pieces

1. In my neighborhood two of the biggest changes were the school that they tore down two blocks away from my house and the juvenile detention center they built two years ago. This conversation describes the different attitudes that were expressed when these changes occurred.

Hey Suzy can you believe they are over there around the corner tearing down that perfectly good school the only school in the neighborhood. Now my child is only ten years old and he has to ride a bus and train by himself to his new school. I am a single mother and I have to be to work the same time he has to be at school and my work place and his school are on different sides of town. What do I do?
Well I don't know I wish I could help out.
However I am having another problem can you believe around my corner they are building a juvenile detention center for kids who commit serious crime to go to until they are of age to go to real jail or prison. I feel so unsafe I mean this is a residential area and I believe these two changes are ridiculous.

2. From the same block

From the corner of Pitkin and Amboy to the corner of Pilling and Bushwick its all the same,
the hustlers on the corner with dey doorags,
under dat the nunile trying to get waves mad at the pretty boy that's walking up the block with his natural waves and the one with the curly hair,
so the doorags think dey soft so they gona try to rob him,
take what he got,
do you see your ignorance he from the same block,
and don't forget about the girls with dey Fendi on dey Gucci shades dey nine west shoes and coach bags thinking dey the bomb standing in front of dey building and so do you,
you also think dey all twins dey all got on the same thing because I know they all brought is from century 21 half price on sale or irregular.
They all trying to live this lifstyle they can't afford,but they don't want to go to school or work for'd. Part 1
1. What made you decide to take the job you have chosen?
2.Do you feel that you were well trained for the job?
3. Do you feel money or being comfortable is more important in your job choice?
4. Does your job aquire skills or do you feel it is easy?
5.Does your job surroundings determine your attitude towards work?
6. Do you feel you have made the right choice in decision making?
7. Is there a variety of races at your work place?
8. Did your family affect your job choice if so, how?
9.Has anyone in your family tried to change your mind in your choice of work?
10. Does money drive you to switch jobs every time one one comes along that offers more money?
11. Even if a job offers little money if its something you wanted to do all your life but you just couldn't afford to live off the income what would you do?
12. In making a career choice should you follow your heart or your mind?
13. Should you listen to someone else's advice when your finding a job or just your own?
14. Do you think following in your parents foot steps is a smart choice?
15. Do a lot of people in your family have the same type of jobs?

Part 2
(Zelphia Calhoun 35years old Postal Worker)(My mother)
1. So I could have a pension for retirement.
2.Yes.
3.Being comfortable because its hard to work in a place that your not happy.
4. It's easy anybody can do it.
5. Yes, because when your surroundings are bad you don't want to go to work.
6.Yes its a good job I make good money.
7.Yes.
8. No.
9.No.
10.No.
11. I would do that job and get a second job also.
12.I would follow my heart.
13.No.
14.No because its depends if they have good steps or bad.
15.Yes a lot of people work for correction and police.

(Jemar Corbett 20years old Security Graud)(cousin)
1. I just needed the money.
2.Yes I was trained for two weeks.
3.I feel money is more important because I won't be comfort without money.
4. Anybody can do this job I feel.
5. Yes mostly the people around me just want to hang out and party but I feel I need to pay attention to the future.
6. Yes so I can stay out of trouble.
7. No there are only blacks and hispanics..
8. Yes in a way my mother really wanted me to do something with my self being that I didn't finish high school.
9. No there happy.
10. Yes as soon as a job comes along that offers more money I going to take it.
11. I would do what my heart desire, I would go for the money.
12.I will follow what ever tells me the most money is.
13.I think your parents advice is the best.
14.I t depends on what they did.
15. No a lot of them don't work and some of them I don't know what they do.

(Lawton Corbett 80years old retired painter/carpenter)(granddaddy)
1. I just always wanted my own business.
2.Y es it is definitely a skill required.
3.I feel being comfortable is more important.
4.Being a painter /carpenter requires skills.
5.Not me personally I always mind my own business and do what I feel is best.
6.Y es definitely.
7. No I work alone most of the time but now my sons have taken over since I retired.
8. No not really.
9. No not at all.
10. No I never switched jobs I've always been comfortable.
11.I would definitely try to get another job so I could do what I loved.
12. I would follow my heart because special things come from the heart.
13. Two heads are always better than one.
14.Not there foot steps but there advice I would follow.
15. No there is definitely a variety.

Part 3

Doing this interview report I really learned alot about the differences in peoples opinions about work. I feel the reason there are differences is because of the different age groups.The older people I interview has different values about working than the younger people the older ones take it more serious. My mom and my grandfather were more interested in the long term while my younger cousin didn't mine moving from job to job when more money was invovled.