Youth Quote Search

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

“Happy making money.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Naysayers and bullying

“Like playing rugby. Like my dad said I should never play rugby because I’m too small, and like all the people who play are not small at all. They’re big people. But like my dad was always telling me like I’m too small, and like I’ll never like be good at rugby. Like he wanted me to be an athlete, and he loved the idea of me playing sports, but like he’s like maybe pick a different sport…But like I personally was just like watch this, Dad. I want to play this sport…It motivated me to want to like not do it to prove him wrong as much as like do it to prove to myself I could do it. But like it was also kind of like proving him wrong like, hah, I did it.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“I think my education and my career experience has most influenced where I am at now. Because of these things, I was able to find a job immediately out of college and was able to enter the field prepared and ready to succeed… I started looking for and applying for jobs while in my last quarter of school. That definitely helped.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Personal traits and experiences

“I put low confidence and you can feel alone because sometimes you will feel alone but then there will be people that you think aren’t there, but in reality they are right behind you in the steps that you are taking.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“I don’t think any of the words I used to describe myself would have a negative impact on my job, work, or career, but I have to admit sometimes I do procrastinate a lot, so that’s the only negative thing I think that would have a negative impact on my career.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“Antisocial will be the negative because it may be hard for people to work with me at the beginning.”

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

“Means to an end. Blah. Requirement.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Naysayers and bullying

“I mean, I talked to them about it, but they don’t really seem very invested in my future…We’ve never really gotten along super-duper well. We’ve had our fights, and we never really had a resolution from them. So at this point…we are kind of mutualistically like benignly positive with each other. Like we respect each other, but from a distance. So that’s pretty much cool with me. I’m going to go off to Cleveland, and I’m going to be on my own. And then after that, I don’t really see myself coming back down to New Orleans to be with them that much. Like I might stay in contact with them, but they’re not really a huge influencing factor in my life.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“When I want to do something, I am determined that I am going to do it. There is no changing my mind. I’m going to do it.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“I see myself retired. And then, okay, I see myself taking care of my grandkids, having my husband. Let’s see. I see myself having, like I said, I want to be a teacher, but my side job would be cosmetology. So I see myself still owning like salons everywhere, so I still have income coming in, people working for me. I own a couple of houses, or three houses, so they have income coming in. And I want to still be traveling at that age.”