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What is something that the youth are told that isn’t necessarily true?

I think that people are told a lot of the time when they are thinking about what job they want to do to just follow their dreams and just do what they like. And that’s good, eventually you want to be doing a career that you enjoy doing it in, and something that you can see yourself doing for the rest of your life because you know you’re earning money but there’s also you’re living a fun life and you really want to live it your fullest. But, you have to be realistic about the jobs that you’re doing, sometimes things just don’t work out.

If you wanted to be an influencer, or if you wanted to be a Youtuber, or a Twitch streamer, those things aren’t easy to be successful in. You have to be realistic in, like, oh, sometimes it won’t work out, and even people who tell you to just keep doing it because you like it, you have to know that at the end of the day, this is a job that you need to pay your bills for and to pay your rent for and things like that. So like, the world is harsh, and things don’t go your way most of the time, and you have to acknowledge that and sometimes you have to make sacrifices such as your job, or like you have to find compromises in doing things that you may or may not like as much but are comfortable doing but it’s able to give you a living wage.

Posted October 21, 2023
Interviewed September 24, 2023
Downtown, Vancouver