Item
Mini Oral History with Jennifer, 2.21.21
Media
Title (Dublin Core)
Recording Date (Dublin Core)
Creator (Dublin Core)
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Economy
English
Emotion
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
debt
saving
positivity
SilverJOTPY
Collection (Dublin Core)
Over 60
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
Interviewer (Bibliographic Ontology)
Sharon Hunt
Interviewee (Bibliographic Ontology)
Jennifer
Location (Omeka Classic)
Tucson
Arizona
United States
Language (Dublin Core)
English
Duration (Omeka Classic)
0h:02m:16s
Transcription (Omeka Classic)
J: Hello
SH: Hi my name is Sharon Hunt and I’m a graduate student intern with the COVID-19 archive at ASU. The date is February 21, 2021 and the time is 2:40 pm and I’m speaking with Jennifer. I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience, but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the COVID-19 archive. The COVID-19 archive is a digital archive at ASU that is collecting pandemic experiences. Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?
J: Yes
SH: Thank you.
First, can you tell me your name, age, race and where you live.
J: My name is Jennifer, I’m over 60, and I live in Arizona.
SH: Thank you, now I’d like to ask you a quick question about the pandemic. We’ve experienced a lot of changes in 2020 and many have been negative and disruptive. But perhaps it’s not all bad. What’s one positive thing you’ve experienced during the pandemic?
J: Well, like you said, there were a lot of negative things but for me, the one positive was that I was able to get out of debt. With everything closed down, you really couldn’t spend your money on anything, and I was blessed to be able to work through all of this so I’m finding that I had a lot of extra money. And I took that money, and I began to pay off my debts. So in a relatively small amount of time, I was able to pay off a car and several credit cards. And now I am pretty much debt free. So that’s a big burden lifted off of me, and then going forward I’m continuing to see how I can continue to using my money properly and not getting into debt. So for me, that was a big positive.
SH: All right. That sounds great. Thank you for your time today. Good-bye.
SH: Hi my name is Sharon Hunt and I’m a graduate student intern with the COVID-19 archive at ASU. The date is February 21, 2021 and the time is 2:40 pm and I’m speaking with Jennifer. I want to ask you a question about your pandemic experience, but before I do, I would like to ask for your consent to record this response for the COVID-19 archive. The COVID-19 archive is a digital archive at ASU that is collecting pandemic experiences. Do I have your consent to record your response and add it to the archive with your name?
J: Yes
SH: Thank you.
First, can you tell me your name, age, race and where you live.
J: My name is Jennifer, I’m over 60, and I live in Arizona.
SH: Thank you, now I’d like to ask you a quick question about the pandemic. We’ve experienced a lot of changes in 2020 and many have been negative and disruptive. But perhaps it’s not all bad. What’s one positive thing you’ve experienced during the pandemic?
J: Well, like you said, there were a lot of negative things but for me, the one positive was that I was able to get out of debt. With everything closed down, you really couldn’t spend your money on anything, and I was blessed to be able to work through all of this so I’m finding that I had a lot of extra money. And I took that money, and I began to pay off my debts. So in a relatively small amount of time, I was able to pay off a car and several credit cards. And now I am pretty much debt free. So that’s a big burden lifted off of me, and then going forward I’m continuing to see how I can continue to using my money properly and not getting into debt. So for me, that was a big positive.
SH: All right. That sounds great. Thank you for your time today. Good-bye.
This item was submitted on February 21, 2021 by Sharon Hunt using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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