Youth Quote Search

• Characterizations of a bad job
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“If your mood change [when you get to work.] If you see your coworkers outside of work, and you act like you don’t see them.”

• Reflections on Focus Group Experience
• Takeaways

“[With regards to work-related relationships] I think it is always important to have positive relationships with your coworkers so to make each individual workplace more enjoyable every day and just keep up a better quality of life.”

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

“For work I put trying to reach goals, constant, busy, money, long hours, every day. I put trying to reach goals because I feel I have a job that I work every day on myself and on other things trying to reach my goal and do what I want to do. Constant, because I am constantly working or working towards something better. Busy, because I’m always busy; money, because I still get money by doing work.”

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

“Dollars.”

• Entrepreneurship
• Perceptions of entrepreneurship

“I would say one of the most rewarding things would probably be coming up with your own service management tool because some companies out in the world, at least in the hospitality field, don’t have the, don’t have the correct service management tool. And at least one of my classes, this semester, I had to aid in helping another company build their management tool from the ground up. And we had to take all the things that we learned in that class and then make it ourselves. I found that to be quite an interesting experience, and that is something that I would like to do for a company, for my own company one day.”

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

“Income.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Death, loss and uncertainty

“So, I put student loans and debt.”

• Reflections on Focus Group Experience
• Takeaways

“You can’t just rely on other people. They can pull the block like Jenga and the whole thing just goes crumbling and you are back to square one. What do I do with that? How do I rebuild? I relied on these people for so long. Now I don’t know what to do.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“I would describe myself as an ambitious person with lots of goals in life.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Lack of skills and competition

“What concerns me is my business failing and then having to file for bankruptcy or just my business not doing well financially.”