Youth Quote Search

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

“Tired.”

• Education
• Perceptions of high school

“…School helped me. I got trouble in the community, and they wouldn’t let me back in school. So I’m glad. Now, I make more money without them jokes.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“A great shot at securing a job, internships and networking.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“Okay. I’ll say it. When I’m 25, I’m not going to be done with school sadly because I want to be a pediatrician. And for that, I need like a lot. We did a project and by 25 I’ll probably be in medical school so I won’t be done yet. So, I’ll still be in big debt, big stress. Well, I don’t know. I think after Berkeley, I want to go to USC for medical school. Maybe in LA. They have a medical school. We went to visit it.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“I don’t want to be in a house; I want to be in an apartment so I can save as much money as possible because I want to be able to do what I love until the day I die. I want to make sure I always have enough savings, and I am always going to be able to make sure I am comfortable. I don’t want to have to depend on another person for my income, so I always want to have savings for just in case. I want to live in the city, and I want to just be influential and change a lot of things—especially for women and how women are treated in advertisements and things like that so they are more supportive and a healthy mindset and just educating a lot of people on that. Maybe ideals make money like that; maybe I wouldn’t, so maybe I might write a book or something to make money. I don’t want kids. Maybe I would be a surrogate so that I would like to have a kid but not having to have a kid, or donating my eggs because you can make a lot of money by donating your eggs. I don’t know why but in a city like a really big city.”

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

“I agree with [Participant]. I feel like connections is more like you can talk to each other like a family. And then, networks is like coming here and I need to talk about business, maybe get a job. Connections feels more like family oriented, friends.”

• Characterizations of a bad job
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Bad management.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[At 25] Well, I want to do human resources or social work. I’ll probably still be living with my parents just because I want to help them out. I think that’s all right now…but I’ll probably just be out [of school] for a couple of years, just to find a job and then, make money to pay off my debts and then, go back to get my master’s [after a] year or two probably. I don’t know. I haven’t really thought about [what my work will look like] but I do want a 9:00 to 5:00 job. Just because I don’t want to overwork myself, but then, also have a good paying job that doesn’t overwork me is all.”

• Entrepreneurship
• Perceptions of entrepreneurship

“I think it would be cool. It is a big risk. You put all of this money into it and if it turns down, you lose all that money and you are left with nothing. It is up to you. If you think it is going to pay out in the end, go for it. There is always that risk in the back of your head if it doesn’t work out. You want to put yourself out there, and you don’t want to follow in someone’s footsteps. You want to be your own boss and create something new.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“Introvert, anxious, funny, sweet. I always put myself last. I am caring, awkward, nutty, hard worker, lazy…and I stay in my shell…I am very quiet, and talking in groups makes me anxious. I am a hard worker; even if a job I hate it I still put all of myself in there. I try to make everything funny even if it is not supposed to be…When it comes to school work, I’m a procrastinator, but with work I am not.”