Interview

So today I found out that I can now email the other woman that was on my list. She is a stay-at-home mom. I plan on emailing her by tomorrow so that I can get it all set up. Also, my other interview was scheduled for Friday at 10:30.

Planning for the Interview

Yesterday, I was thinking, "I am really pushing these interviews back as far as I can, and I just need to get them over with." So, I went to the office and made some phone calls. I am still waiting for one of my sources to get back to me, but I was able to schedule the other interview. It will be around 10:00 next Friday. That will be a really good time for her and I think that it will be pretty good for me too. I hope everything goes well. Now all I have to do is look over the questions that I will be asking her and make sure everything is perfect. I would like this interview to go smoothly.

Cover Page

I had been looking over the outline and I realized that I had to have the essential and foundation questions on the cover page. So I went to my dashboard to open the teach files where my questions were, but for some reason, the internet was only partially working that day, so I was not able to get the questions. Another day was shot for starting the outline. So I worked on my noted more, hoping to have quite a bit to back up my opinions and information that I put into my project.

Introduced to Outlining

This week we were introduced to outlining and how our outline for our project is supposed to be set up. We are supposed to use most of our notes to create the outline and to have a cover page for it. I guess it will be easy, but then again, I am still looking over my notes, and since there are a lot, it may be difficult to place them in the right spots. I have to base them off of our foundation questions, under each heading or section. I hope I can get them all sorted the right way.

Notes, Notes, and More Notes

I know I have been talking a lot about notes, but that is pretty much what most people are still doing in class. I mean, it is impossible to have all of your notes and resources within 10 weeks or a little more. It takes a lot of time to find the resources, read through them and take efficient notes on them. So I have been looking over different sources that I have and thinking about people to interview for my project.

Blogging

So I am way behind in my blogging, so I think that I will write more than one to explain what I have been doing. It is so difficult to keep up with the blogging. When you are in class, you don't think to yourself that you need to blog for that day because it is not a normal assignment, so I tend to forget that I am supposed to blog at the end of every class. So the next few blogs will describe what is going on.

New Book

Ms. Schuler gave me a book today that she read in college that fits very nicely with my grad project. It is called, "Working Women in America". I copied three chapters already and they all seem to be perfect for my project. Now I just have to go through them and take more note. Ha ha, more notes. Wow, that is interesting.

A Whole Week of Notes

Well this whole week we will be working on the notes from our sources. I don't really have anything to say right now because that is all that we will be doing and have been doing. So I hope to find some good notes this week that I can post to my blog.

More and More Notes

I think I am going to have to come up with some new titles for these blogs because there are going to be too many note taking days to have "More Notes" be the title for every blog. But anyway, today we did More Notes as mentioned. I did, however, find some really good points in one of the books that I have and I think they are going to be very useful. They talk about the amount of money women make when they have kids and when they don't have kids. I think it is a very interesting point to bring out. But that is all for now. Maybe next week there will be a little bit of excitement.

More Notes

For the rest of this week and the rest of next week, we will be working on the notes from all of our sources. I think that I will find some really good information because from what I can see they are really good sources and I have already found some really good information. I have also been asking around to see if there are any stay-at-home moms. When I asked Chelsea, she said that her mom is a SHM (stay-at-home mom). So I will definitely keep her in mind for the future and maybe I can interview her sometime.

Interview Plans and Notes

I completely forgot to do my blogging yesterday, so I thought I would catch up by writing about yesterday and today. Yesterday, we worked on the interview plan papers. And that was about it. It wasn't much to do, but it provided some extra time to do more research and to look into the sources that we have already. Today we were informed as to how we are to take notes on the sources of information that we are looking at. I have a lot of good sources so far and I hope to be able to find some very useful information from them. So I guess I better get to work on them.

Intro to Interview

Today in class we had to think of some people to interview for our grad project. Then, once we thought of them, we had to contact them in some sort of way and ask them if we could interview them and why we wanted to interview them. I have a really good friend that is a working mom and I emailed her today. She got back to me within five minutes and accepted my interview. She said that we could get together sometime soon and we can talk about some of the things that she does and what her family life is like. Tomorrow, I plan on having my interview plan turned in and moving on to another person to interview.

Key Terms

Today, we were working on definitions of key terms that we will run across in our research. I found about 13 of them. I hope they will help.

• Stay-at-home mom: A mother that does not leave the home for work, but stays at home with her child
• Working mom: A mother that works either part-time or full-time while trying to raise a child/children at the same time
• Manifesto: a public written declaration of principles, policies, and objectives, especially one issued by a political movement or candidate. (“The Motherhood Manifesto” is one of the books that I will be using for my graduation project)
• Managerial: involving or characteristic of a manager or management, especially in business
• Colleagues: someone people work with, especially in a professional or skilled job
• Glass Ceiling: a barrier to career advancement; an unofficial but real impediment to somebody’s advancement into upper-level management positions because of discrimination based on the person’s gender, age, race, ethnicity, or sexual preference
• Domestic: relating to or involving a family or the people living together within a household
• Workforce: All the people working or available to work, as in a nation, company, industry, or on a project
• Paid-Leave: paid time off from work
• Maternity-Leave: paid time off to take care of a child for a certain amount of time
• Flextime: the ability to be able to choose the hours a week an employee will work
• Coalition: an alliance, especially a temporary one, of people, factions, parties, or nations
• Fair Wage/Living Wage: a wage sufficient to provide minimally satisfactory living conditions