Youth Quote Search

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“I wrote bachelor’s, master’s, internship, research, Ph.D., cultural anthropology, crime lab, and forensic anthropology…Then, working at a crime lab and then, doing forensic anthropology all over the world…Probably professors [will help me]. I’m taking a class at Towson next semester because I’m doing dual enrollment. The professor I have is already a forensic anthropologist. So, I’m probably going to talk to her and try and intern with her next year.”

• Perceptions of the term 'career'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

[Description of “career”] “I put stress free, house, money, happiness…I feel once you have a career you are set in stone. That is what you choose to do with your life forever. I feel once you make something a career that determines to me you are happy where you are at. I understand a lot of people aren’t, but personally I wouldn’t make a career out of something I don’t love…I think about buying a house when I get my career. Even now I am already saving for a home. That is how much I enjoy working. I really do.”

• Appealing jobs or careers
• Aspirations and Goals

“It’s something I’m passionate about.”

• Perception of the term 'networking'
• Relationships, Connections & Networking

“Computers.”

• Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“A career and something to do while getting through school.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Death, loss and uncertainty

“I have three because I don’t know which career I want to be in yet.”

• Impact of family
• Pathways

“I think help you because I see that my parents don’t have a career. I want to be better for myself and I see my family and my boyfriend’s family. They have amazing careers. My family doesn’t struggle. They make money; they make decent money, but I want to be in a position where I am going to make amazing money, do whatever I want. My dad works Monday through Saturday. Sunday is his only day off and he is tired, so we don’t go out a lot as a family. My boyfriend’s family on the other hand, they go out all the time as family. We are always doing something, all the time. It is like I see that and I didn’t see that before because when I was living with my boyfriend it was different. Now that I see it, I don’t want to be like my parents, but my parents have always taught me you don’t want to be like us. You want to have an amazing future. You want to do better. You want to give your kids everything. Even though my parents give me everything and they do their best, I don’t want my kids to see me struggle. Oh I lost my job. Yeah, they are just firing people. I want to have a set job. I want to give my kids whatever they need; I am going to pay for their school.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“Well, I’m in high school. Yeah, and I’m going to be at college. And then I may go in the Peace Corps. I may do, based on funding for the animal thing with the government or something like that…and more animals become more…more adoptions…I don’t know maybe a giant animal adoption place, just like with a whole bunch of animals. I don’t know like the SPCA. Yeah, one here, but it’s giant.”

• Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Positives about job: makes you a better leader. Positives about work: gain trust.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“I think I want to be abroad, finishing up a graduate degree.”