Youth Quote Search

• Entrepreneurship
• Perceptions of entrepreneurship

“I think I’d like to do it if I am older and I have a lot of money I would like to start a business. It is kind of risky because it can pay off in the end. You get a lot of money, but if it doesn’t go off, you are left with nothing…if I have money saved up, and I know if I start a business and it fails, I will still be okay. I won’t be drowning. Yeah, I’ll try it definitely. I started a couple. I’d like to start another one…I am my own boss, so I can’t sleep and I am up at 3 o’clock, I can work out for an hour and then go to work like to my job whenever I choose to and then call it good at 2 o’clock or whatever. Setting your hours for whenever you want.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Death, loss and uncertainty

“If you go straight from bachelor’s to Ph.D., it’s paid for. So, that’s mostly like what I’d aim for. Otherwise, I’d have to go for master’s and that’s a lot of money. So, I’d probably go to England like my sister did because you can do your master’s in one year there. So, it’s not as expensive.”

• Impact of race, ethnicity, gender, culture
• Pathways

“For me, white women or any kind of women are able to find the career and job they wanted to be because achieving our goal is within us, and we are the one who make the company or any job offers will hire us.”

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

“They feel differently because job sounds like the place you go to in order to work.”

• Reflections on Focus Group Experience
• Takeaways

“Overall, I just think all of this is, as much as it is nice to codify it and have a general idea of where you want to go, I think that all of this just kind of pertains to perspective. I know that my perspective has shifted so much in the last year or two, and yet I have had to write on my college applications what I want to do, where am I going to go. And so I feel like I have written down what I said on my college applications, but ultimately I am ready to take an anthropology class and be like never mind on the whole lawyer thing. This is what I am going to study. I am only 17 and this is nice to think about as I enter college and feeling like I have a plan, but ultimately I am ready for it to change, if I need to.”

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

“Hours.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Personal traits and experiences

“[I get feedback that I am too nice] All the time, especially from my mom.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“Well, tall and blonde. I am Russian, like I’m first generation American. I’m creative because I like to do stuff, the performing arts, and I’m dramatic because how I react to things I guess.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“This is today. This is me when I go into my 11th year next year. I already graduated my sophomore year, so next year I am going to be taking cyber security classes. I am going to be closer to my cyber security career by basically asking for help by my teacher, my cyber security teacher. Once I graduate from high school I am going to be going to take more cyber security classes in college. After that or maybe before that I don’t know, I am going to enroll in cyber programs like cyber patriots or something like that.”

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

“Trade, career, pays bills, daily thing, and opportunities. You know, like come to job, if you’re willing to get up and go get it, there’s opportunities out there, and you just got to be humble. And like me, my brother is disabled. When he was born, he was born Perthes disease, so it means his joints and his hip deteriorated. So, you know, with him not, you’re not able to work. You know, I’m grateful that I can work. And, you know, I just strive off that, and I stay humble and just go to work.”