Interview of the Herbtea seller
Herbtea is a kind of popular medicine in China because it
is cheap. It can prevent the diseases, especially sore throat
and influenza. Besides, it can make our body stronger.
Basically, it is a kind of healthy product that many Chinese
drank in the past. However, it is not so acceptable to the
teenagers and younger adults.
We have interviewed a mid-sixties woman who names
“Du” selling the “Leung Cha” in a shop in Chun Yuen
Street. She is the shop owner. She opens the shop 7:00a.m.
to 9:00 everyday. She has unstable every month, but mostly
is around $5000 to $6000. She has no choice to do this
occupation as it is the family business. There is no any
sir-conditioner in the shop. As she has been doing the
occupation for almost forty years, she has already adapted
to the environment and the job. She thinks the environment
is quite comfortable and it is not a hard work for her to
wake up early in the morning and boil the “Leung Cha”.
Therefore, she will let her sons and daughters to take this
job if they like. Despite of the SARS broken out, it didn’t
affect the business as mostly of the customers were living
there. At last, she thinks that occupation has its own existing
value because many Hong Kong people think Chinese
medicine is healthier than the Western medicine and it is a
Chinese
culture.
However,
she
has
experiences about her job. What’s a pity!
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The Chinese herbs seller we interview
We had interviewed the Chinese herbs seller called
Mr. leung. He worked from 8am to 8 pm everyday and he
only got half an hour for lunch, he didn’t think it’s enough
and there the working hours are about eleven and a half
hours per day, it was quite a long working time so he felt
this job very hard. He worked in that Chinese herbs shop
where he thought it was uncomfortable because there were
no air-conditioners. So he felt very hot in the days where
there was lots of sunshine, he earned about $6000 each
month but he thought it was not enough.
He explained to us that being a Chinese herbs
Chinese herbs are more and more popular in our society,
seller was not necessary to wear uniforms and it was
and even the university have organized some studies of
suitable for both male and female, but doing this job must
Chinese herbs.
know the use of different kinds of Chinese herbs and also
One of his most memorable experiences is that he met
the knowledge of using which kinds of Chinese herbs in
some famous pop star went buying Chinese herbs in his
which cases. His main duty was to sell the Chinese herbs
shop like Alan tam, but he didn’t take a photo with him
and gave advices of the use of Chinese herbs on different
because he thought he was not a baby to do that silly things
cases of sickness; also they will help their patients to wrag
like making a photo and ask for his autograph.
the medicine sometimes. Usually there were lots of
customers but manly the elderly. His business was not like
others that were affected by the sars, because during the
outbreak of SARS, more patients bought Chinese herbs in
order to maintain a healthy life. He thought this jobs was
still important in our daily life because after the SARS,
more and more people would like to be healthy and also the
Interview of Old Things Buyer
We have interviewed a man who called Mr. Leung.
He is an old things buyer. This job does not have
fixed time. When have many things to repair, he
have to work longer. However, he work about eight
hours a day. He had an hour to have lunch. He also
does not have fixed salary. It has to see the amount
of work. He no need to wear work clothes. He had a
stall for him to repairing. There is dirty and hot. It is
comfortable but there do not have many cars so the
air is not very bad. He choose this occupation
because he have to earn money. This job is buy the
old things and repair it then sell them out. He buy
the old things from the street cleaner. He feels it is
very hard. Despite of the SARS broke out, it had
affect his job. At last, he feels discontent of this job.
The Tennis Coach that we interviewed
loves to play tennis and teaches others to play tennis; she
wants them to love tennis, too. She could enjoy a lot when
she was working.
So she thought that the meaning of
teaching is greater than the salary.
We had interviewed the tennis coach called Sylvia. She
does not have a stable working time. She went to work
when she had lessons. Due to this situation, she did not have
a stable working hours and lunch hours. She works in
different tennis courts base on the lessons held in which
tennis court. She thought this job was exhausting because it
need to face the sunshine all the time and didn't have a
She explained to us that being a tennis coach is not
break because she could not left her students and went for a
necessary to wear a uniform but you must wear a set of
break. She earned $400 per lesson for private teaching, if
sporty wears, which is suitable for playing sports. Also, this
worked for government, she earned only $122 per lesson.
job is suitable for both male and female, but the most
She thought that the salary is fine to her because she really
important is you should have an effective teaching license
because you must know the accurate motion of playing
tennis, well known about the tennis court and the rules of
The same as others, her occupation has been
the tennis, especially the counting of the marks. They are
influenced by the outbreak of SARS due to the safety, they
quite complicated. Her main duty was teach the others to
were not allowed to have lessons. But after the outbreak of
play tennis. Usually, she will have lessons every day
SARS, many people wanted to strength their bodies and
because she had a lot of students but mainly children or teen
started to learned tennis, it had increased the amount of
ages.
students which learned tennis, and she could open more
classes to have more income. She said she had many
memorable experiences because every time her students had
won in the open competition, she would be very happy
because every student was trained herself, so she was proud
of them. But the most memorable experience was a few of
her students had become the representatives of the Hong
Kong Tennis Team to have competitions against the other
places.