Alicia interview transcript
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What is your name?
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Alicia
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What's your work?
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Electronics. Repairing televisions.
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How long have you been here
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It's already been 17 years.
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At the same stand?
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Were things very different when you began?
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Yes.
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Before it was much more abandoned. There were no stands
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Each one worked in their own spot, and it wasn't all closed in like today.
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Are you from here, this zone?
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Yes.
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What was there here 17 years ago?
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Yes, here in Leticia.
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What do you prefer repairing?
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Televisions
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Which part?
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Basically all the aspects of televisions.
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What is the most difficult?
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Sometimes there are errors that you can't fix. Those are the hardest.
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Do you repair mainly tube TVs?
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No. Tubes are basically out of the market.
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And flat screen TVs also?
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LCD? Also. But when a flat-screen is broken, you can't repair it.
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And the people who come here are from Lima?
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From the provinces.
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From where?
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Diverse parts.
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The jungle, Mazamari, is the furthest from which people have come.
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They travel by boat. It takes 2 to 3 days from Mazamari.
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They bring televisions to be repaired, if they can't find how to fix it there.
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How did you start working in computer repair?
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My husband is a technician. So I'd see what he'd do and that's how I learned.
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And more than anything, practice. Practice.
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This stand belongs to both of you?
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Yes.
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Do you feel that reparation work changes your perspective of the world?
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Yes, things change.
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I don't know how to explain.
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Broken world... Can those problems be fixed?
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Violence can be fixed, just like televisions are fixed.
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And the other problems also?
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Practically all of them. Perhaps some can't be fixed, but that's it.
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Anything else to add?
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No.
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Thank you.
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One more question. You're working on these devices (CRTs),
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do you feel that the market is changing in that device.
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We are changing.
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Is there more work or less?
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There's more work.
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Since most people come from the province, if they see there an appliance which works, so they come back to buy more.
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Is there more work because there are more people with televisions?
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Most people who buy a LED television, the flat ones, they break down.
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And people prefer a TV that can be repaired.
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Here you can change the screen, the parts. But in the other, you can't change anything.
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Thank you!
