Even though I wasn't blogging last week, I would still like to talk
about my spring break even though I'm a bit late! For my spring
break, my close friends and I planned a big trip to Miami. Even
though it was the craziest spring break I have ever encountered, I
still had a blast. Starting with the first day we got there until the
last day something crazy happened but the trip was all worth it.
When we touched down, I noticed things around me for example
their jobs, what people looked like, the cars, etc. Getting picked
up from the airport was normal, but getting into a cab gave me a
complete different outlook on how the ethic of working in South
Beach was. The cab driver who picked us up not only drove a cab,
but was a woman. Huh? A woman is what I kept telling myself the
whole ride to the hotel. In Miami, I'm pretty sure it’s normal to
see a woman driving a cab, but if you see that in Virginia people
would think otherwise. I guess in order to survive in this world you
have to do what you have to do to get to where you want to go.
According to the article The Changing Face of Taxi and Limousine Drivers written by Schaller Consulting, says that
as the number of drivers has increased, the composition of the
There's nothing wrong with having a career as a cab driver, but
seeing a woman behind the wheel shocked me. Not judging the
lady or anything like that, but I always had this thought in my
mind that only men can have that type of career but thinking that
would be sexes. Many women are capable of doing anything a
man can as long as she puts her mind to it no matter what type of
career it is. Men are not superior over woman and I hate the fact a
lot of men now days have that mentality. But to each is own.
When most woman talk about the career choice they want to
purse, they don’t automatically wish to be a cab driver I guess it’s
some type of adrenalin rush because woman want to be
considered equal to mean when it comes to having the same job
as them. For example you would typical see a woman doing what
she desires like sewing, fashion etc. Men typically pick a career
with sports, ITE, etc. But now in this new ear, your starting to see a
a lot of woman take over.
driver work force has changed. In 2000, 38 percent of taxi/limo
drivers were immigrants, some were females and there was an
increase from 27 percent in 1990 and 8 percent in 1970. Taxi/limo
driving now has the third-highest percentage of immigrants, behind
only tailors and farm laborers, among occupations with at least
50,000 workers in the U.S.
Here are a few notes on this post: first, remind us what your topic is in an initial summary sentence. I think you could have expanded this into a really interesting entry if you did a bit of research on women in atypical jobs: how many women, for example, are cabdrivers? Engineers? Bankers? Infantry soldiers? Remember: we readers what to see depth of discussion in this post. You could have spent 1-2 sentences introducing the lady cabdriver and then expanded on women in unique jobs...(the analysis).
ReplyDeleteI agree, but as you said to each his own. It is a shame that society has caused everyone to be little sexist and steriotypical. I thought the same thing when I read it, "A woman cab driver?" The sad thing is, and this may sound politically incorrect, but when I think of a cab driver I think of a foreign man. However, looking at the movie "Taxi" with Queen Latifah, that movie is hilarious and she is clearly a black woman; which in no way fits my definition of a cabdriver. Oh well, to each his own right?
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