Youth Quote Search

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

[For work] “Dedication, you know, it’s something, just dedicated to your job. Whenever I leave my house, and I get to work, I don’t think about nothing at home. I don’t think about nothing because work is what’s going to, you know, give me my money. Work is what’s going to keep me going through life. And my papaw, he’s 70-some years old. If he retired tonight or tomorrow night, he would probably pass away because he’s, all he knows is work. And if he retired tonight or tomorrow night, he’d probably pass away because all he knows is work. But when I say dedication, you know, I’m dedicated to my job because it’s like opportunities. And my coworkers, you know, I bond with them, and I just learn so many things between my coworkers. You know, they’re a lot older than me, of course. I’m not 21 yet. So, you know, I learn a lot from them. And just being around, you know, being at my work is what I like. You know, if anywhere I want to be, I want to be at work because I know I’m not going to get in trouble. I know I’m going to make money. At the end of the night, I’m going to go home to my girlfriend.”

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

“I think they are different because work is something you have to do, not something that you want to do. But a job it is something that you don’t mind doing that [is] work but it doesn’t seem like working. It just seems like something that you [don’t] mind doing.”

• Reflections on Focus Group Experience
• Takeaways

“I was talking about how keeping up with the media and all of that and getting my name out there without having much work. I got good advice from them saying that do big work instead of a lot of work that doesn’t mean much. Do the bigger jobs that will get your name out there more than just a bunch of small jobs.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“I mean, me, myself, I’ve already been down this road, and I’ve already asked myself these questions before. And it actually comes down to just self-motivation. I mean, there’s really no one else out there. If you’re determined to do something, you’re going to do it no matter what the sacrifices are or what the consequences are. And so, I mean, I did six months of basic training that I did at academy. And, I mean, I didn’t have any family support. I didn’t have any support from the outside world. It was just completely myself…There’s obviously people out there who are going to help you. You know, you’re going to have your business marketing management team. You’re going to have people on your team yourself that want to help you strive and everything like that. But when it comes down to it, at the end of the day, you’re the one who’s still logging down all the marketing businesses or the records and everything like that.”

• Reflections on Focus Group Experience
• Takeaways

“[Having people fail us keeps us from reaching out to new people because] The trust you had is stopping you from gaining that trust again with someone new.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“A degree that gets my foot in the door of a career I’m interested in.”

• Impact of family
• Pathways

“They want me to go into college because neither of them really went so they want me to be more than them and just get a better job.”

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

[What “career” brings to mind] “I put niche, family, travel, nursing, successful, organization.”

• Entrepreneurship
• Perceptions of entrepreneurship

“Yes but it would be way too much work.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“I want to go to Howard [University]. To do that you have to have a 3.7 or a 3.3 at most. I have to work on that. Then I want to pass the medical exam that you have to do to get into medical school. Then I want to get into placement for medical and then become a neurologist or a primary care doctor or a radiologist and be successful.”