Com 1112-04

Characters & Experts My expert for my audio story will be Vonda Whitted, a former commercial and private bank teller, social worker, and current bookkeeper for a public elementary school. Her entire professional career has revolved around money. In her interview, she speaks about working in private banking and helping clients make important purchases. She contrasts this with her work in Social Services working to provide those in need with appropriate service (EBT, WIC, etc). She currently works in an elementary school where she makes purchases for school supplies and trips for the students. With such a diverse background in finance, she was a good person to interview because she would have different perspectives on money. My original interview is with my roommate Bianca Bullock. She was a good person to interview because she comes from a town with such a diverse financial environment and attends a college very different than her hometown. She will have different perspectives ...

Can Money Buy Happiness? I decided to do this topic because it is such a common question people ask, but there is no clear answer. At first, my roommate and I both believed that money cannot buy happiness. But after we began talking we realized that we have been conditioned to believe that work is the most important thing in life. Based on how our society is set up for you to attend school for nearly twenty years and then work for the next forty years and then you can finally retire and do the things you've always wanted to do. Although as a society we agree that money is not everything, the basis of the American Dream is work hard and play later. Towards the end of our conversation we began to compare older generations to Millenials and Generation Z who are more likely to take gap years and quit their jobs to follow their dreams and passions. The conclusion that we eventually came to was that money does not buy your happiness, but it definitely makes life more fulfilling.  ...