Profile Process Writing

Writing this profile piece was pretty difficult for me, and definitely more difficult than writing the earlier and more personal piece. To begin with, I felt like the interviews I was getting at the Union were not taking me anywhere and I was getting very little beyond “This is the Union. It’s a great place to eat and everyone likes it”. I also was never the focus during any of my interviews which really the interviewer never should be but what I mean is that I would be talking to someone who worked at the Union and then they would run away to help someone or do their job, then return ten minutes later and I’d have to start all over again. I found out that this was a really difficult way to work. A lot of my questions, I also felt were awkward for the people or ones that they really hadn’t thought about before and I felt like that had no understanding of why I was asking them. I tried to explain why and I still felt like they were just humoring me sometimes and I would get dropped at the first sign that the Union got busy.
Trying to fit the quotations into the piece too was also difficult as I learned that I was a decently poor judge of what seemed to be an important quote and trying to fashion a narrative of what appeared to me to be sufficiently disjointed interviews and observations was really difficult. I still have a lot of work to do and while I think the Union is still a good place to profile, I think I may need to change the focus though because I sometimes felt like I was forcing it. Hopefully with some more work, some more interviews and maybe an interview with someone of higher authority, which I have tried to get but so far not been successful would help me get a more unified profile and something that could be really good.