Research project guides for CSUB student researchers
K: Hey, how are you? P13: Good morning. P13: Yeah. P13: Damn. K: Perfect. Yeah, okay, so are we ready to start the interview. P13: Yeah, I’m ready. P13: Okay. K: So we appreciate your willingness to participate in this interview. You should take about 45 min. Once we finish the interview, you will receive the $20 Amazon gift card within 48 h. Our goal is to understand your experiences, living and working in the San Joaquin Valley, especially concerning environmental issues like air pollution. Your insights are valuable and will help us better comprehend K: and how these experiences influence community connections. I’ll be asking you a series of questions, but please feel free to share any thoughts or experiences you find relevant. If you’re comfortable. Extending our conversation beyond 45 min, we’re happy to do so. K: So the 1st question, can you tell us something about your current role in your job? P13: I’m all there. P13: Okay, my current job is I basically walk outside that’s in P13: in office. I don’t. I don’t work from home. So I work from office, going out of sight. K: Okay, so what’s your role called like, what’s your position, called. P13: All right. My position is a digital marketer. K: No, okay. K: So you said, if you work indoors. P13: No, actually, I don’t work indoors. I work outdoors. K: Oh, okay, I’m sorry about that. Okay, so does it require any physical presence or the job like indoors, you know, you, you work outdoors. But does it require any physical presence. P13: Yeah. Basically, that’s how it looked like in a typical day. P13: I just have to, you know, visit some sites, places to place to collect information and data. It’s not a a P13: an indoor or a 1 time. Location is very location varied. So I just have to work different location around the value. K: Okay, okay, perfect. So how flexible is your job in terms of when or where you work, is this flexibility? Something you prefer. P13: Yeah, it’s like, I said, it’s very flexible. I just have to visit different locations. So P13: I’m working from like a a head office position of a senior staff, of which I just have to collect information and check over the junior staff. Another location of how they are doing doing, because we have some branches around. K: Okay, so how would you describe your relationships with your coworkers. P13: All right. My relationship with my coworkers is very very specific. So we have a day to day conversation, we talk more often. P13: somehow, if they’re not able to connect on phones, I just have to go to their different offices, check on them and collect the information I I need I need. So P13: I need my colleague to complete a tax specific tasks of which I need to complete. P13: So we work hands on. K: Okay. K: So can you walk me through your typical day for you like, including both your work and non work activities. P13: Okay, my working activities as a digital specialist is just P13: getting the company and organization data. P13: And that’s very that’s very easy. Confidential question, though, I just have to check P13: on the working parameters video. P13: they’re working in cooperation with the the company’s goal and growth. So my non activities. Working activities is just my not nature and wildlife. You know. I I do some kind of activities like walking around the forest, fishing, streaming and water skiing. So that’s just like a leisure time activities P13: for me. K: Okay. K: So can you tell me a bit about your family, and who you live with. P13: All right. P13: We are family of 3, I, my spouse and my child, which age 17, and we live together in the same home. K: Okay. K: Is that all. P13: Yeah. K: Okay, okay, perfect. So how long have you lived in the San Joaquin Valley? What brought you here? P13: Okay, basically. It’s my work that brought me here. And I’ve been here for 5 years. P13: I got transferred from Los Angeles to work here in the Adventure Company. P13: So I was able to switch my role to a digital marketer. So I’ve been here for past 5 years. P13: No. K: Awesome, awesome. So how do you feel about the air quality in San Joaquin Valley? P13: Alright. The air quality is very, you know. You can’t really tell about the quality, because it it varies, and it’s very dependent on the weather, so I can’t really judge the air quality particular. During the summer months. P13: The region is very, you know, high levels and open for air pollutions. So I will say that the air quality is it very. It varies around the district because it’s depending on the temperature, sure whether it’s in the winter or. K: Benjamin. P13: Generally impossible. K: I’m sorry your voice was breaking. Can you repeat what you said? I’m sorry about that. P13: Alright. I say that the air quality I can’t really say about the air quality, because it’s perpetual and varies basically with the weather. So here in the Saint John Green Valley, it’s very essential to wash out the air quality P13: on, on with temperature. So for how, for the time I’ve been here. The quality have been very positive, but with times it it ranges down the negative levels so I wouldn’t like to conclude it negatively. But I would just say that it’s good. K: Okay. K: thank you. And next question, in what ways does the air quality affect your daily life at work and at home. P13: All right during the summer. The dry season, like I said, the heat quality is very poor, and I can excavate my respiratory condition because I see myself as a person who has an asthma. I’m an asthmatic patient, and it’s very chronic, you know, during this season the air quality disturbs me very much. P13: Having a negative health impacts and P13: and may cause some allergies due to some cardiovascular concerns. To this I’m unable to complete my daily activities or some working tasks. So it affects my my working activities. P13: And you know, with this I am unable to make my child to the taxi to get to this. P13: So this is how it affects me. K: Right. Right. Okay, so have you noticed its impact on others around you K: like roommates or coworkers or friends. P13: Yeah, of course, you know, like I said, P13: coworkers, if you have any information to pass through to me, at that moment I will not be available available in the office. Just have to write me through my mail or through my cell phone to this. If there is an issue I need to sort out, for in the workplace that involve my physical presence. It it’s affected because, you know, there are some tasks that can be can be completed by mail. So to these of my working and activities and interaction with my colleague has been affected. K: Okay. How do you concern like about your family’s health influence K: like, how does you know, like your family’s health influence, your feelings. P13: Yeah, I’m very much concerned. So during this period, you know, my family is my priority. I just have to work out to them to avoid strenuous activities. To these we limit how we we do our physical activities during the peak pollution P13: and air pollution arts. So I to create a very indoor environment, using air purifiers in my home just to maintain a clean home to reduce the indoor air pollution. These are, I’m very much concerned about my family. K: Sure. K: Do you think experiencing air pollution with others strengthens your sense of connectedness in your organizations? Can you share some examples? P13: Of course it doesn’t. It doesn’t, because you know P13: to come in to to it. It modify our communication because we are unable to, you know, work actively because of the a poor quality, and it prompts to explore other alternatives of interaction like I said so to these, our mode of transportation and workflow system arrangement around the organization has been terminated P13: and also family activities has been limited because our families and our workplace we could no longer plan on picnics. We could no longer plan on visiting spot or doing sport, you know. You just have to. You just have the the organization to change our or change an alternative that may require fully time, indoor activities or in indoor tasks. K: Yeah, okay, so how do you feel when others share similar experiences related to air pollution? P13: Alright like I said, you are experiencing, because I really think that should be soon, because we just driving our our towards this the the weather. So I would just have everybody to check their air quality indexes, because. P13: every activities you should plan or every activity you want to plan should basically be on the A quality forecast. P13: You should not be ignorant of the air quality index. So to these, everyone around should wear protective gear P13: use of masks respirators, and also stay hydrated like P13: drinking a lot of water can keep the body to cope with the poa pollution around the area and to avoid any stressful activities or attacks that will make you dehydrated P13: to this. I’ll I’ll just suggest every home install their a purifier because it can help to. You know, environments and purifies the air. K: - P13: Hey! K: Perfect. K: So me, I’m sorry about that. K: Okay. K: so sometimes people feel a strong bond with others when facing common challenges like dealing with air quality. How do you feel when, when someone shared the similar experiences about air quality like, have you have any examples with your colleagues like sharing their experiences with you about the air quality? P13: All right. If someone, anybody, especially my colleagues, should share. K: Yeah. P13: About the poor equality in the area. How we just have to, you know. Tell them to stay informed about their indexes, because we are having a sense of community and a sense of belonging without being biased. I just have to P13: recommend. I recommend the partner or my colleague to, you know, install some several preventive measures that can help to mitigate the poor air quality. P13: I don’t have to discourage the person, but I just have to tell him to work more productively, and increasing absenteeism, to to just flush away the negative impact of the air for equality. K: Right so. K: How has this sense of bond affected your thoughts, feelings, or actions toward your organizations? P13: All right. The actions. And is a version community here? P13: because we were having a discussion about the poor air quality. P13: It’s a time to promote a clean energy among among our colleagues. So to these several topics, like a proper renewable energy system, like solar and wind power, may be discussed during our our personal discussion. So to these, we hope to have a very positive discussion that may helps to develop the community. P13: and, you know, make a suggestion to the government to limit how P13: to limit or to encourage sustainable transportation, you know, to Diesel, we can. We can work on public transportation, because basically, they contribute to the integral part of the airport. Poor air pollution pollution. Here P13: the corresponding of Forsyth, where some company around the valley are using some some some technologies that emits P13: emits, some, some some impurities to the air. K: Okay. K: Have you ever shared personal or family vulnerabilities related to air quality with your colleagues? If so, how was it received? And how did it affect your connection with them? P13: Yeah, just what I finish during this period when you’re discussing about the air quality, you are able to promote a clean energy P13: and make some suggestions to the Government. K: yep, yep, true, though. Okay. So moving on to next part what actions, if any have you taken to deal with the challenges of air quality. P13: All right. P13: This is limited to my arsehole, because I’ve not made any attempt to, you know, to the public. P13: So in my home. I make sure that all my children, my belongings, they have access to face marks, and I install a purifier in my restroom, my kitchen. P13: and in my dining. So that’s the action I’ve made. And we steer away from stranger activity and outdoor activities. K: Okay. K: so how do others who are around you cope with bad air quality like your maybe neighbors, maybe family and friends like, how does they cope with bad air quality? Do you have any idea about that? P13: Yeah, my neighborhood. They are having a very positive incentive and eco-friendly practices against the against the a poor equality, because they are able to create a very smart and improve a quality monitoring system in their own. So they are doing perfectly fine. K: Okay. K: so how is your organization helping employees to overcome air quality issues? What do you think about your organization’s actions that they’re taking to overcome air quality? P13: Okay, our organization. They are able to. You know, they are able to prove, add some P13: materials that helps. And also we are working on a shift. We’re working on shifts. We’re no longer working on on 30 h plus a week or a month. So we’re working on a shift. P13: hey? K: So what do you think about that? The actions that they’re taking. P13: That’s the action. The organization has been able to schedule their talks to workers and proper shifting, so we can work highest 2 to 3 times a week. P13: so we can fully concentrate on our homes. K: Yeah, okay, so has support from your organization, changed your perspective on air quality issues? P13: No, not at all. K: Okay. K: does support from your organization, strengthen your connection to the organization. And if if it does, in what ways? P13: Sorry. At the end of the question. K: Oh, no problem does support from your organization, strengthen your connection to the organization, and if it does, in what ways? P13: No, it doesn’t, because P13: since I’m working 2 2 days a week, you know the rest, I’m able to focus on my family. There’s nothing materialistic about the support. So it’s just a a fun time for my family. K: Okay, so do you see yourself continuing to live and work in this area long term? P13: Yeah, of course. K: And you may want to share a reason as to why? P13: Here, you know, in terms of adventures and natural P13: environment. They they are very stuck with that, so I can’t be left out because of the poor P13: for equality, because the government here, the citizen here it has a very low crime rate. So I really love the area. K: Right. Right. K: Imagine the air quality significantly improved. How do you think that would affect your life and your connection to the community? P13: It will bring more connection amongst the peers, you know. At least, if it’s a company that the Government wants to bring, I think it will open a means of employing the youths around in the community to work P13: either as our soul or as a employee to stabilize equality. K: So what potential factors can make? People leave the San Joaquin valley, what do you think are? P13: I don’t think of any, because I’ve never been a victim of any crime or any disadvantage yet. K: Yeah, thank God, yeah. K: Okay, so perfect. And what potential factors can make people stay in San Joaquin Valley? P13: All right, like I said, a very sweet government, a high paying jobs on job opportunities. K: so have you ever participated in, or are you aware of, any community or organizational efforts to address air pollution? How did that involvement? K: How did that involvement affected you like? What do you think about that? P13: Not really. I’ve I’ve never processed Peric once. K: Okay, okay, so just last question. K: is there anything else you’d like to share about your experiences with air quality and community connections in the San Joaquin Valley that we haven’t discussed ? P13: No, I don’t really think, because all the question you ask have attempted and answered all. K: Perfect, perfect. Thank you. Thank you for taking out the time, and we appreciate. K: you know, you being participating in this research, and you will receive your gift card, as I said, within 48 h, and if you do not receive it, just email me and I will look into it. P13: Alright. Thank you. K: Thank you.
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