- Perception of the term 'networking'
- Relationships, Connections & Networking
“Looking for connections, and putting yourself out there.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- white
- male
- Chicago, IL
- mixed income
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“Looking for connections, and putting yourself out there.”
“Knowledge [will be important to me at 45.]”
“Expectations.”
“[Negativity is] going to come to you more than once in life, so that first time it might crush you. But as [it] keep coming your way, you going to start learning how to handle it.”
“I think sometimes people are pushed to go to school. Like, you know, if your parents push you to go to school, and then you go to school for something you don’t want to do. But you went because they told you to go, so now you…in debt thousands of dollars, and it’s not what you want to do. And don’t you feel like sometimes like the parents be like since they didn’t do that, they want you to be like that? It’s like they trying to live their life through you or something like that.”
“They don’t have to worry about debt so they feel as though it’s amazing and how you can make plenty of money without going to college.”
“Sometimes I have to doubt whether people in authority are taking me seriously. I have been subject to inappropriate behavior from male colleagues at work which takes away from how powerful or in control I feel.”
[For career] “I got a fitter, a welder, communicate, money to be made, sacrifices, and learn. In dealing with my career, you always going to have to talk to people. You’re always going to. And when you talk to people, and they’re not, and they’re, the people not going to be the same, so you’re going to be communicating with, you know, different people every time you speak to someone because everyone is different.”
“I know like some people in the sports industry right now because I got like some friends there. But just like going to different events, you know, connecting with people at like jobs and organizations. Some people may not like want to work for the team their whole life, or like some athletes, when they retire, they still want to be involved in sports, so find people like that to come back and support what I want to do.”
“Visuals have always been important to me, so that’s why I like this career. Also, who would not want to create, test, and play video games every day for work? To me, this sounds like a very exciting thing!”