Youth Quote Search

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

[On work] “Money.”

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

“Can either be good or bad as you may like your job and you may not so I’d say frustrating and like able.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“Yes, my sister and brother went and loved it so that motivated me to go more. [Do you know what they loved about their college experience?] They loved the learning experience and how it helped them find their career choice. [How did college help them find their career choice?] They used the tools learned in college to adapt into a career which they could progress in and make a living on.”

• Perceptions of the term 'connections'
• Relationships, Connections & Networking

“I put a better sense of trust. I just feel like you can go from networking to connections because you might start out like oh, you’re a stranger but once you start talking more, you feel like you develop a better or deeper connection to someone. And then, you can reach out to them like maybe even less formally because you got to know them better.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“I put going to the university, having a job like at a fast food place, any place. I like to go to parties and live with friends, I guess, like rent a house. At 45 I would like to have a stable income, like still have a job. I’d like to have a wife, maybe kids. At 70 I’d be retired. I’d like to go traveling and learn the banjo too.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“I see myself becoming an accountant. I would describe myself as a go getter.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“Renaissance man, jack of many trades, creative, Gemini, most in the clouds, fun, intense, open-minded. I find that I don’t like to stick on just one thing all the time when it comes to how I maneuver in life. I am very open to trying new things and just being about something weird. Like when I went to school, I went to school for political science, but now I work with electronics. It doesn’t make sense, but growing up and in high school, my main focus was to be a lawyer or a politician. My life has constantly been this. I like to think of myself as a breeze on a hot day. You don’t know if it is going to be too strong or just right.”

• Describing Identity
• Race, ethnicity, gender, culture

“Well, tall and blonde. I am Russian. Like I’m first generation American.”

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

“Career is more like many jobs, and it takes time to develop your career with skills and different opportunities over time. You can’t just get a career overnight. Even with singers and actors, it is like a portfolio; it is a developed career instead of just one job.”

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

“Passion, joy, security.”