- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Stability.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income
Youth Quote Search
Welcome to the Striving to Thriving Youth Quote Library. Here you’ll find a curated collection of more than 5,700 quotes from young people ages 15-22 living in communities across the United States. In the library you can see how young people describe their multifaceted identities, how they understand and apply meaning to language around job, work and career, how they think about and assign value to relationships, networking and connections, and their future goals and the education and career choices they believe will lead them there. You can also view additional notes on curation, categories and filters.
- Characterizations of a good job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Healthcare, dental care, all of those things.”
Participant:
- Chicago, IL
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'social capital'
- Relationships, Connections & Networking
“Having connections to people in higher places; higher places as in not like someone is better than you but like a CEO of a company or stuff along those lines. Just establishing solid connections—not just like a hi and bye thing, like they said. Kind of make it close-ish, close enough to have trust but not like your best friend.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- white
- male
- 15-22
- mixed income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
“[At 70] The best grandpa ever. Just taking them out having fun with them.”
Participant:
- New Orleans, LA
- white
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Pathways
- Steps and stages
“Some of the most important things per say would have to be talking to my counselor and not rushing anything. This would be as it taught me patience and if I needed anything or to know anything I know I could go to her without being stuck on the situation which I feel as though helped me out a lot.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Reflections on Focus Group Experience
- Takeaways
“Definitely about my future and wishing something like [the focus group conversation] was in my high school…. asking these questions…Some of us don’t know what to do. We just need time to know what you really want to do instead of jumping into something [that] we realize midway through the year that it is something we hate or something we don’t like doing at all.”
Participant:
- New York, NY
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- higher income
- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Goal.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- male
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Discrimination and Bias
“I believe it affords me more opportunities, just as it always has, but I do feel like in the literary world, specifically, there is currently a slight disadvantage when applying for grants, awards, fellowships, etc.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- male
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
“[At 25] For right now a job in electricity for one year. I am planning to go back to school next fall, so I do want to study criminology, so hopefully get into that and there is a lot of things you can get involved with like sheriff’s academy or stuff like that in general.”
Participant:
- Downey, CA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“Hard worker…I have one day off a week. By hard work I mean there is no stop. It is non-stop. [That is my choice.]”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income