"Some of them I just didn't put any work history and I just said, 'I haven't had a job in 20 years.' And I would put my old work history. On the job application process after her release But at first it was hard, and I couldn't figure out how I was supposed to account for that big of a gap." And finally, luckily yes, eventually someone did hire me, and I love my job. I put in over 100 applications all over the city of Fresno, and nobody would hire me. "Sometimes I get a little, I don't even know what word to use, a little upset with what had happened, but then I also have to realize, 'Ok, well it's happened and it's done and it's over with and I just have to move on.' When I tried to fill out job applications - I had jobs before I was incarcerated and I knew how to fill out the application, and I could write down my previous jobs and my work experience. On feeling frustrated about spending 20 years in prison So I went to the cash register with a couple of the items and they were 99 cents, and then I was like, 'Oh, this is one of those regular, everything is 99 cents.' But I was too frustrated to go back in and I just left and went back to the halfway house and told everybody I couldn't figure out the 99-cent store." So I had got like five or six items and I was looking at the prices and I'm like, 'Well is this one 99 ,' and I was adding them all up and I'm like, 'I don't have enough money for this,' so I put a bunch of the stuff back and I got like overwhelmed because I couldn't figure out how this store worked. And I went into a 99-cent store, and that was overwhelming because I was told some of the 99-cent stores, everything isn't 99 cents, because there are different types, I guess. "I was going to go to the store, so I got on the bus and went down to where the stores were. Listen to our interview with Barbra from prison last year. ![]() Now, she tells Here & Now's Meghna Chakrabarti that she has a job and is feeling hopeful about the future. ![]() She was overwhelmed in big box stores that offered so much choice. She didn't know how to apply for jobs online. Scrivner spent the first few months in a halfway house, and she struggled to adjust to life on the outside. Barbra Scrivner spent 20 years in prison for conspiracy to sell crystal meth, before President Obama commuted her sentence last year. The president commuted the sentences of 46 other nonviolent drug offenders this week, warning them that their re-entry to society "it will not be easy."
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |