- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Positives about job: money. Positives about work: place to make money and learn new skills.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
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“Positives about job: money. Positives about work: place to make money and learn new skills.”
“Business casual.”
“It is stressful, but I don’t mind it because I get paid good for it. I make my own schedule, so it is awesome. I work whatever I want.”
“And I think that’s why there’s so much debt now, because so many people with bachelor’s aren’t guaranteed a job that they majored in. There’s many people that don’t wanna get one…[So people quit early] or don’t even start.”
“[Career] Retirement, 401K.”
[Characteristics of a bad job] “For me, teaching. I can’t, I don’t think I have enough patience to work with children. That’s a big one. And I think like the income wasn’t…if I’m not getting what I want and living conditions were like, well, if I don’t feel comfortable, then I would say that…”
“[At 25] I will hopefully still have my horses, and I am sure I will be living in an apartment, knowing my life. Hopefully in college; don’t really know what I want to study yet, but I want to do something with animals, so hopefully something with animals. I will hopefully have a cool car and stuff. Probably no money. I will figure it out…[The important people in my life are] My boyfriend, my mom and my grandma, my close family pretty much – my friends.”
“While studying for my master’s degree, I completed a practicum (working in the university’s counselor training center). I then completed a clinical therapy internship for a year with the city I lived in. I also had a semester long school counseling internship with a high school counseling program.”
“Same thing because I have noticed I have a lot of creativity and depending on the market or the buyer. Depending on what they want to be drawn, I will draw it up on the computer, give it to them, do whatever. And then from there I could also do graphic design. I can do stuff for albums, or I could do artwork for the city. They pay you to do artwork. They are doing that now. It is crazy. You build your own business from your creativity in a way.”
“All right, so, out of high school, started college. Have YouTube channel. Start clothing business. And then, to become famous, to collab with other designers, and then design clothes for like artists and celebrities. And then buy a house with wife and kids. Start family business, clothing business and live in L.A. And then invest in different companies, have different franchises, and work around the country…[I’m going to get] some kind of degree in clothing…and I’m gonna retire and have lots of money, good credit score…You gotta have credit score in life because that’s how you can get new things. If you don’t have good credit score then it’s gonna cost more. You know you messed up.”