Ling (China)


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Ling, a lady who are nearly 70 years old now, has worked for Lingnan University almost 6 years. She has joined the cleaning industry for over 30 years, through out these years, she always keep this motto in her mind: Don’t worry, be happy! During the interview, she had repeated this motto nearly five times thus we can totally know she faced her life with positive and energetic attitudes. Inside the interview, she had shared to me her teaching and education method towards her 5 child. As what she had mentioned in the interview, “ let the youth to develop their own future freely, less grumble, more accept ” is her educational theory. She thinks setting restrictions on child was not a comprehensive education as child was not able to develop his or her whole personality by high pressure parenting style. The most impressive attitude of her is “ respect one’s work, enjoy one’s work”, even though her career was not containing high salary, maybe she only earns $6000 every month. But she still appreciate and respect her job. In the end of the interview, she also expressed her feeling and opinions on women equality issue— why most of the labours in cleaning industry were mainly women instead of men? She had mentioned that most of her co- workers were the only breadwinner in the family, even if their husband with the age 40- 50, they still do not willing to work as a “ lower class” labours. She had indicated that the cause of the above phenomenon is the class division in the general society. The ganitor had been classified as the “ lower class career” under the division. She hope one day the division between people will disappear.

 

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