Episode 158: Caring in a Crisis

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A lot of us have been able to work from home during lockdown these last few months. One group of workers that hasn't is paid caregivers - aides, mainly women, who are paid by the hour to help elderly, frail and disabled people accomplish some of the tasks of daily living.

In this show we meet two women who have been doing care work for three decades - Susie Rivera in Texas and Maria Colville in Massachusetts. Their job is one of the fastest growing in the U.S. But it pays poorly and a lot of people don't see its importance...until they need that care themselves. Some clients are grateful and gracious, others less so. Each woman feels called to her role. As Maria puts it, "The opportunity to make an impact in someone else's life," is its own reward.

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0:44.4	Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.
0:45.8	I'm Ashley Mountight.
0:57.3	This time, when you can't work from home during COVID-19, or at least from your home, because your job is about hands-on care for other people.
1:02.6	I love training the new blood coming in that want to do this kind of work.
1:03.7	I love training them.
1:08.0	And I tell them all the time, we need guys, we need men in this field.
1:12.4	Home Health Aid is one of the fastest growing jobs in the U.S., and it's done almost entirely by women.
1:16.0	What we do on this earth for each other is the only real thing that counts.
1:21.2	It's not about the money.
1:23.1	A paycheck is a side benefit for making an impact in the world and in the lives of people.
1:31.1	Two women on working with vulnerable people throughout a pandemic and what that work means to them.
1:37.4	Coming up on the broad experience. Susie Rivera lives in New Braunfels, Texas. She tells me proudly that she's Mexican-American,
1:54.8	and she's been taking care of other people for a living for more than 30 years. She's 63 now. I caught Susie on her cell phone just after
2:04.7	she came back from her shift in a private home one day last month. She started to study for a
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