Youth Quote Search

• Education
• Perceptions of high school

“In middle school I went to a really good public school. And I have been pretty bad in math my whole life, but I always try, and it never really worked for me. The teachers would tell my parents that I was not trying, I didn’t care and stuff. But when I finally went to private school, they tested me and actually found I have a learning disability. No one believed that anything was wrong. They didn’t care until I went to a smaller environment where people actually did care enough to see the root of a problem. Obviously, I got the help I needed after finding out. I think it is just about people looking out for you more. Once you are in a big setting it is hard to see the individual person.”

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

“Maybe somebody going to tell you like you going, you doing it like that wasn’t a good decision, or like you going down the wrong path. Like suggest or like tell you like, you can’t do that. Like tell you I suggest you should do, yeah, you should do…something else.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“Confidence”

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

“Organized.”

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

“Like, okay, like a job is basically something that you feel like you have to do. Like you’re pressured or stressed to do. With work, it’s more personal; like it’s something like he said like you want to. It’s like something personal to you that you voluntarily want to do. And I feel like this, I’m not saying it’s bad to work. I’m not, that’s not what I’m saying. I just feel like jobs are just like a distraction to what your real work is supposed to do while you’re living. Like work is very necessary. You know, we have to work. It’s good for us to work and to be active and do things and to learn and to grow. You know, like all of that is necessary. But a job is a distraction from work, from the real work.”

• 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.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“My older cousin always says she [wishes] she went to college. Then maybe she could get a better job.”

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

“Artist.”

• Learning About Work
• Sources of Information

“I go to engineering club at school.”

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

[Description of a” bad job”] “Like the little jobs that you do. Now like when I worked in retail, people would come and go all the time, and it could literally be for nothing. And I would always be on edge. Like I knew I was a good worker and that I wasn’t at risk, but still in the back of my head I was like but what if? So I think being at a place where you feel respected, well respected, that’s like a good job. A bad job is a place where you’re not going to feel that way. You’re going to feel the opposite; that you could just be replaced.”