Interviewer: Victoria Phaneuf

Affiliation: University of Arizona

I dropped in on the Bayou La Batre office of Rodriguez Boat Builders. It's a small trailer set at the edge of the parking lot, cream and wood inside. I knocked and walked in, there was only one person there when I showed up. It was Joseph Rodriguez, the president, I explained the study and gave him the description. He said he had just a few minutes to talk with me before lunch, and then I could come back another day. However, the interview ran longer than that. Periodically when I asked him if he had to go he said no, I could ask a few more questions. He's in his early 50s and very energetic. There are frequent interruptions, at many points it seems like he's the only person in the office so he periodically answers the phone when it rings, and once has to check an email that came in to see if it was important or talk to a worker who came in to discuss something.