EOC Week 2- Sweet Charity

            The movie Sweet Charity is a great example of being stuck at a job that you do not like. The star of the movie, Charity Hope Valentine was an older woman stuck in a job that involved dancing for lonely men. She wanted to get out of the job but did not have skills to do anything else. “Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.” (Chris Bradford, the Way of the Sword)

Charity did a few things right and a few things wrong in her attempt to get out of her horrible job. The first thing she did right was to try. None of the other girls even tried to leave the bad job but they all wanted to. Charity tried her best to dress well and present herself as professional. I think she did a pretty good job for not knowing anything besides dancing. “It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.” (Richelle E. Goodrich) Charity could have tried to research a little more to know exactly what to expect when trying to get another job. She should have asked more questions about training for jobs instead of just crying and begging for a job. She also should have never given into the joke at the end. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”  (Eleanor Roosevelt)