Beverly Cheatham is 35 years old and lives in Elmira, New York. She had her first job at the age of 13 and has been working ever since. Beverly currently has only one job; she is a crew leader in Dining Services at Elmira College. She's been working there for two and a half years and has a staff of eleven people in her crew. Beverly has many responsibilities at her job because she is a crew leader.

"I'm in charge of making the menus, changing the menus, making sure everybody has a position for the day, setups and making sure everybody does what they're supposed to do."

Beverly has always worked in food services. Two of her former jobs were working at Pudgie's and working at Cornell University's Dining Services. She chooses jobs in food services because she loves food. She also likes to work in food services because she likes,

"...meeting different people and finding out where they're from. It's amazing, I must have met six people from Africa and I've never been to Africa before."

Beverly works Sunday through Thursday for nine and a half-hours a day. On Sunday, she works from 9am until 6:30pm and on Monday through Thursday she works from 10am until 7:30pm.

Beverly does not feel that she has enough time outside of work for her children (ages 16, 13, 11, 6 and 5) because she only gets two nights off a week and has to work nights for the other five days of the week.

"When I go home, all I have left to do is help them with their homework and get them ready for bed."

She does not believe that this is enough quality time for her family to be spending together.

 

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