Youth Quote Search

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

[At 25] “I probably won’t still be Safeway. I want to try going back to college in the fall.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[At 45] I live in a nice house with a decently sized yard. I work in a high position in some tech company and have a good pay. The most important things in my life would still be my job and family. My girlfriend or wife my parents and possibly my kids…I feel excited but a little worried about what I’m going to do. I also like the idea of 2 jobs so you don’t get tired of one. One question I have is would you be able to manage multiple jobs if you have already gone down a specific career path.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“On my education the positive words I think are that I like to put effort into my work. So for my education I put effort in my classes to get good grades. A negative is that I become very focused on one thing and lose time for other projects.”

• Impact of family
• Pathways

“My mom has always been there for me. Mainly my mom because my real dad wasn’t there…growing up as a kid, so I didn’t have no one to look up to but my mom. My mom really stood up… It hits me all the time just thinking about it like what she went through. She is a rather strong woman, so I just feel I owe her everything. I’ve got to go and get it. I am young right now. I can take advantage of whatever I want to and stay focused and I can achieve it.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“Traveling to discover natural things for my skincare line, owning my own home, settling down, having kids, kids leaving home, being happy where I’ve been in life, traveling the world and being successful and conquering all my dreams.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“So, at Eastern, you have different magnets. You have tests to get into a magnet or whatever. So, I was in the allied health field. And my one teacher, we had a unit on careers and stuff so we researched different career options because I never actually wanted to be a nurse. I always was like no, nurses are – I don’t know. I just didn’t like nursing at all. It was just like you have to clean up poop and stuff and I don’t want to do that. And then, I started really diving in and researching it. And she brought someone in who was a nurse to talk to us about stuff. And that’s kind of how I learned about it and fell in love…Just mainly the flexibility. As a nurse, the flexible schedule, good pay. I’m still helping people and I can work wherever I want. I have the option to change whenever I want to. I don’t have to just be in labor and delivery. I could be in oncology. I don’t have to stay in one place. And that’s really what appealed to me because I get bored easily”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[At 45 my life will look the same as the previous answer] Well, like human resource, social work but, with him like living together and stuff. Well, I feel like I need to see first if I actually like [the job I’m doing at 25] because then, if it’s something that I do like then, I will continue. But if I want to expand like that then, it will depend on where I’m at the moment.”

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

“Adversely, I feel that work does not equate to job. One can work in many different ways but that may not be a job. I feel that a job means that there is compensation where there is not that same expectation of compensation for work.”

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

“I put work you love, financial freedom, money, money, and…”

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

“[A good job is one] where you can take care of yourself, and you don’t need no help, and you can live comfortably.”