Youth Quote Search

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

“It is the exact opposite. Where job is the more relaxed setting while work is the harder one mostly. Because I work with my dad; it is not really a job. I work with him, and he does landscape contracting where we have to do things like shovel dirt for several hours, remake lawns, pools, things like that. So, it is very labor intensive. In California weather it is very intense.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Lack of skills and competition

“It will take me a little longer that 4 years cause I will need 150 college credits to [sit] for CPA.”

• Entrepreneurship
• Perceptions of entrepreneurship

[On why to be an entrepreneur] “People cross you over all the time. If you are your own boss, you don’t have to worry about that. My brother had a hard time with jobs because his boss could snap at him, and he will snap back and get fired. Yeah, I don’t want that to happen to me because I will snap back. If I know I need the job, I am not going to snap, but it would be better if I just had my own business because then I couldn’t get fired.”

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

“I put team player and expansion. You’re networking to expand and elevate yourself. Team player, that’s more like because I feel like networking/connecting go hand-in-hand, so that was for both of them. But when I say team player, I mean making it a point so that everyone can win. So, when you’re networking, you’re connecting with people and trying to pass on what you guys can do to help each other generally, or what you can gain knowledge from somebody as they can gain knowledge from you. So, it’s being a team player and just passing on information.”

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

“Making moves. Making moves is just like networking to me, it’s like you’re making moves so you can elevate yourself. Get to another step.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“Some people say they like the parties and how you can sometimes choose when you want to go to class.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“While going to school I wanted to – before that I want to just, so I have money on the side, I have been wanting to do like eyelashes and have my own business with eyelashes. So I was thinking maybe that, and living with a potential husband, maybe. I don’t know why I have always said I wanted to get married again, so I was hoping by 25 I would be married. I know. I know. Anywho, at 45 I put home because hopefully I have a home by then. I still live with my husband, being a teacher by then and already having my kids by 45. At 70 I put still with my husband, retired, chillin…Not to say you don’t have any worries, but I think once you are kind of done with work and your life – not to say you are going to go soon – but I think you have less worries. I put grandchildren.”

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

“Entertained.”

• Perceptions of the term 'social capital'
• Relationships, Connections & Networking

“What stands out to me was people’s ideas, experience, ‘It’s not what you know. It’s who you know,’ just because in my head it was very one-sided because I thought it was all who you know, but everyone shared their opinion, and gave me a different perspective. So, I thought that was pretty cool. And then when we talked about quality of life capital, or somebody said something about life, as well, as one of the capitals. And I thought that was interesting to put capital into a perspective, other than like, monetary. So, yeah. Those were the two things I found most interesting. Yeah.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“Probably college graduate. Just looking for a job in my field. Trying to move out of my mom’s, I guess…I’m a sports management major. So, my plan after school is to like find a coaching job or become an agent to some athlete in like the east coast area.”