Three Quotes: Teresa Fiorenza

" It's so demeaning to be there and not be challenged. It's humiliation, because I feel I'm being forced into doing something I would never do of my own free will-which is simply waste itself."(523)

In this chapter "In Search of a Calling", Nora Watson talks about her job and how she is not challenged at all by it, and she wants to quit. I see where she is coming from. If I had a job that I wasn't challenged at I would quit in a second. I would be way too bored with meaningless work.

"I was a kid in 1942 when I got out of art school. I wanted to make a lot of money and become famous. In five years I'll own the world. I'll be in New York driving a Cadillac and owning my own plane. I want gold guff links and babes and the big house in the country. The whole bit. The American Dream. (Laughs). That beautiful, ugly vicious dreamthat we all, in some way, have. I wanted to be a key man in the industry. Over the years I realized there isn't any key man-that every man, every human is a commodity to be exploited. And destroyed and cast aside. For thirty years I've been a commercial hack."(525)

In this part of the chapter Walter Lundquist talks about his job as someone who designs billboards for companies. He talks about his drinking problem and about this beautiful piece of work he did for a beer company.

"I never felt that I'd been searching for a calling. circumstances made me look around and keep right on looking. Over the last years I've been fired sixteen times. (Laughs). I'd have to dig up all my records to tell you all the jobs I was fired from." She is thirty-five." (527)

In the last part of the chapter Rebecca Sweeney talks about some of the jobs she's had over the years. She talk about working in a bank and being the only African American woman working there. She gets the cold shoulder from everyone, while someone tells her to watch out because she could get fired soon. She decides to start a Union to protect herself, until she sees another Sfican American woman interview for a job there. She approaches the woman and tells her that if she doesn't get the job to contact her. The woman contacts her and for some reason she was fired a couple days later.