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  • Essay / Sociology interview - 884

    In my interview, I chose my girlfriend's neighbor. Hector is of Mexican descent and he is here because in Meigs County the produce fields hire Mexican workers with work permits. Hector started out doing that, then became the boss about five years ago and received his green card. He is now American and speaks English very well. He explained to me that in Mexico there is no age to start working, so there are young boys who work between the ages of six and ten to help support his family in need. . He also said that women generally do not work, they only do it out loud to go to village markets and buy goods for their family and raise many children there. I asked about minimum wage and he laughed a little and said that some teenagers and working men are lucky to make a dollar an hour, but he said that the people who are lucky to be able to do what he needs to do does a lot for their family. money. He said that when he first started coming to America to work, he was chosen as a lottery pick because there were only a limited number of jobs for small positions. He and his whole family were very poor, but now he says his family is the richest in the village. He said he also had to move his entire immediate family to America. The first question I asked was "In Mexico, how old are postal workers when they get their first job"? He said that in his village, everything depended on the need of the family. He said most families in his village have the same income, so male children found jobs when they were very young, between six and ten years old. I was curious so I asked "if they work, do they... middle of paper ... because they went from $6.50 an hour to $19.00 an time to forget what it once was. I learned doing this explains exactly how hard it was for people outside of America because we have every chance of becoming something great. without having to do much because he has to go to school and we have all kinds of government funding to go to college and no other country in the world Americans also have the opportunity to earn all kinds of money in their field of study and in Mexico, if you're not born with money, you won't have it unless something big happens. Also in America we have unions for. what to fight for as workers we deserve and the benefits we receive Americans may not like each other sometimes, but we all agree that you should receive all the benefits and the. money that the work you do deserves..