Profile of a RIC student's mother

I would say that my participant had an interesting and long workplace journey to get to where they are now. It started when Marie came to the United States in 1988 from Haiti with her first daughter and she had to learn English right away in order to get a job. Her mother was a seamstress so she learned those skills and worked at a factory. Then, she had her second daughter and attained a GED at a Community college in Massachusetts so she could learn something new and get a better job. Marie attended Mass Bay community college and had a job as an assistant teacher at a Boston Public School working with the Bi-lingual Haitian students and special needs students.

Marie entered the nursing program and while Marie was in school, she was laid off from her job, once again. Marie then went to work at the Fernald State School, which was a school for mentally challenged individuals. One day, Marie had an accident while trying to move and carry one of her patients to another bed, where she fell and injured her back. From there, she could not continue nursing school or work on her feet.

Later, Marie recovered and got a job as a telephone support specialist for Nynex, a telephone company which today is Verizon. From there she was laid off once again and decided to go back to school. She attended Clark University to study novel network. Marie graduated and got her first support job was at Stream International in 1997. From there, her career started fishing to its stability. She worked there for three years then moved from her old job to a higher paying job called Hale and Dorr for two years. Marie left Hale and Dorr in 2002 work at a law firm called MINTZ, LEVIN, COHN, FERRIS, GLOVSKY AND POPEO, P.C. in South Boston, Massachusetts. She was doing the same job but got better pay and a better position and is currently still working there.