“I don't do a lot of customer interactions, so I'm not too much at risk in that way”

 

Carlos has a commercial driver license and works as a ready-mix driver for Cemex. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, he was a customer service representative for Penske and worked with them two months before he got laid off due to the pandemic. Carlos was aware that the next few months were not gonna be easy, finding a new job in a pandemic would be difficult. Due to the changes happening world wide, he had to make some changes within his work life and personal life.

 

When Carlos first got the news of the virus, he was amazed by the impacts it had been making: “It was all new, it was something new, it was unbelievable that it was impacting world wide, not just here in San Diego, not just my work. But since it was a world wide thing I knew big changes were coming up and it was just a way of waiting and adapting to it.” For Carlos, his days at work don't really look much different than before. The major differences are the sanitation measures. A typical day at work now involves putting on a face mask. He has the option to wear gloves if he wants, but if he doesn't he has to be consistently washing his hands. With facemask and clean hands, he gets in his truck to get filled up with cement and goes to deliver it. Since Carlos doesn't really have much of an interaction with customers he doesn't believe there will be any permanent changes within his job, but instead worldwide and other industries: “Covid is here to say. It has shifted the world to a point where everyone is gonna have to adapt and live in a different way.”