Interview

Rationale For Interview: I decided to do an interview because they tell first hand from someone who was involved or know a lot about the situation. My mother worked once with mentally ill and sick people. I found this very relating to Morrie. I quickly pounced on the opportunity.

 1. What exactly is Whitten Center? *Whitten Center is a living community of individuals with special needs.

2. What kind of people did you work with there? *People who faced challenges in their day to day lives and needed assistance of employees.

 3. What qualities do you think a person needs to have such a job? *He/she needs to be a good people person. The job requires a lot of communication. They need to have patience, empathy-not much sympathy- but EMPATHY. They need to be quick on their feet. You never know what will happen with such a job.

4. How did you feel everyday working with the type of people you worked with? *I felt like my job was rewarding because I was helping others but in the process learning valuable things as well.

5. Do you remember any particular patients; did any of them leave an imprint on you? *There was this 15 year old boy who had been paralyzed due to a car accident. He had given up. This made me realize the silly little things I wine about and wish for compared to what this young man was facing.

6. Tell me about an ill/sick person you worked with. *There was this one young lady who was born with major physical and mental impairments. She was just... here. -Like...a vegetable. She was blind, deaf, and mute. Could you imagine? She suffered through many illnesses because of her defects.

7. What did you learn from working at Whitten Center? *I really learned to be grateful and to treat all people the same no matter what shape or form they came into this world.