Thus, Gaini states that young Faroese adults, especially young adults from small villages, often make a rational economic decision when choosing to work within the fishing industry, whether in the form of a spare time job or a holiday job. Young adults traditionally take a job after school, this may be a regular employment or they might just help out in the family business (Gaini 2005: 18). Gaini emphasises that the concept of "youth” is fairly new in the Faroe Islands: previously, young boys in particular would start working with their father's and/or uncles as early as from the age of 12-13, thus, they would go straight from childhood to adulthood (Gaini 2006: 46).