Loel Cadiz is a registered nurse, and he currently works at Olive View Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. I will address him as Tito Loel in this essay, because he is married to my aunt, Tita Jhoy. Moreover, I chose to interview him, because I was able to get a hold of him easily, and I knew that he would give me a straightforward response to all of my questions. Due to his busy schedule, I only had the chance to speak to him last Sunday on the phone at 6:30 am. While I was talking to him on the phone in the living room, I recorded our conversation with my mother’s iPad. During the early 70’s, his grandfather was one of the few selected from his town that managed to become a sugar plantation worker in Hawaii. In 1994, Tito Loel’s grandfather was able to petition his family to come to the United States as immigrants. At the time, Tito Loel was 17 years old, and he enrolled at Farrington High School in Kalihi, Hawaii. In order to have enough credits to be able to graduate by his 3rd year in high school, he took correspondence courses. Other than being a student, he also worked part-time at a fast food restaurant so as to not burden his family with allowances.
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Touched by his brother’s kind gesture, he looked after his one year old nephew, and he did chores around the house.To help make ends meet and earn extra cash, he worked at a gas station. After a month of graduation from the ADN program, he took the NCLEX exam and passed. However, the pay in Hawaii at the time was the lowest in the United States, so he traveled to Los Angeles and tried his luck there. Tito Loel applied to a few hospitals, but he received a call from Olive View Medical Center. The hospital wanted to hire him as a new grad for Psych ER, and he gladly took the opportunity. To this day, he still works at Olive View Medical