March 15,2011
1157 Ms. Clouse
Profile essay sketch
Working For Yourself
As I walk into the house of Mrs. Leticia Clanton I smelled mangos. She lead me into her kitchen where her oldest daughter set eating an hotdog. Mrs. Leticia offered me one of those delicious hotdogs, as she stood there in her blue jeans pants, and red, orange ,and pink flower shirt. While we were eating lunch Mrs. Leticia was making dinner for her family. Red beans and rice with a pan of cornbread spread through out the kitchen. Right off the back I knew she was a family woman by the way she had lunch, and dinner already prepared for her family.
The smell of mangos filled Mrs. Leticia house from the front room to the back of the house where the laundry room is located. The smell was so inviting that I knew doing our interview I was going to ask where does she get that mango fragrant from; I made sure she knew I smelled it by saying “ your house smells really good.” just the smell of the house made me know that she has recently cleaned her house. Spot-less and neat with a smell of mango made me believe she was good at her job cleaning other people homes and businesses.
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Mrs. Leticia is an entrepreneur. Spiffy is the name of her cleaning company that she owned for over ten years. Over the years only her family and close friends worked for her doing those years. When I asked the question do she want her business to expands beyond the basic area of New Orleans, and Baton Rouge Louisiana she responded by saying “ yes, because if that where the money that’s where she want to be.” I mention earlier she only had her family and close friends work for her. I asked the question about others applying for work with her and the response was “ If I had more jobs then I would love to hire other to work for me.” “So in the near future be looking for spiffy to be more develop and worldwide” Mrs. Leticia said after telling me about how big she wanted her company to expand.