Personal Narrative: A Personal Interview

For my personal interview I interviewed Patrick McDougal a counselor at a PTSD group for veterans. I meet him when I had to drive my grandpa to the weekly meet up. When I first saw McDougal I thought he was one of the group members. I was a little taken back when my grandpa introduced me he looked like he was one of the guys. I picked him due to the fact his personality made it easy for me to talk to him and how long he had been in the profession a total of twenty-five years. He was happy that I asked him to be my personal interviewee for my research project. We agreed to meet at four o clock on Saturday at the Starbucks right by the college there weren’t that many people in there and I think the barista’s had a fun time overhearing our conversations.
He said that this job is a heavy burden to carry on your soul, sometimes he says there are days I feel so sad and hopeless, you really doubt the good in humanity the hope just goes out of your soul. You have to be careful he told me sometimes hearing these stories can push you down the slope of depression. We also talked about why we don’t hear about how many college students choose this line of work he didn’t have an answer for that question except that maybe it’s not a career choice many know about that maybe more should be aware of it. The last question I asked him is why students might think of pursuing this career McDougal said that it can be and will be a harder job not physically but mentally but if you want to help someone this is a career choice worth looking into. You will be helping the men and women who put down their lives to fight this useless war. You’ll be helping them get back to their everyday lives. At the end of this interview all I can say is that I picked up a lot with what to expect both mentally and scholarly from this career