Youth Quote Search

• Entrepreneurship
• Perceptions of entrepreneurship

“In my plan thing that we made up, I mentioned wanting to sell my herb. I know you are probably talking about making a new profession, but I feel like more environment-based jobs I think are needed considering the current decline of our environmental well-being because of global warming. I feel like maybe more eco-friendly businesses. Just stuff to help the environment that would be a job for people.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

[At 45] “I probably want to be a forensic anthropologist, and I’ll do that maybe 40 or 50 hours a week. But they tend to have to travel a lot, so I probably won’t be living in one specific place. I’ll, hopefully, be married by then with kids…There are a lot of places that people go to. I’m going to the Caribbean, and my family is from there so I’d probably want to go back down there for a while.”

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

“Career.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[At 25] Bought a house.”

• Entrepreneurship
• Perceptions of entrepreneurship

“No I feel like I’m not creative enough to come up with anything nobody has ever thought of.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“Tall, chunky, funny, fun, boring, [closed], athletic, street smart. I know more generally outside school than I do inside of school. If I had to adapt to living by myself and going out and doing things for myself, I would be much better off than doing that than going into school and just being expected to know math and science and stuff. Usually when I go out, I know how to talk to people. I know how to respect them; how not to respect them, just whatever is needed.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“My school’s athletic trainer. Going into high school, you get to choose which classes you want to take. And the class that I chose was sports medicine. And I excelled in that class, so the teacher invited me to join the after-school program my freshman year. So then I sticked with it until this year. I’m still in it. And then just basically, motivation because we have two athletic trainers, motivation from them. And then there’s one athletic trainer at Eisenhower as well, and then so making connections there as well.”

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

“Business.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Inspiration and motivations

“Mom because I could do an apprenticeship under her since she is a photographer, and she is what made me want to do photography”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“My goal is to be financially stable, self-supportive. I just want to be happy.”