Youth Quote Search

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

“Prestige.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“Being female has always helped me in my career field. My ethnicity has caused some difficulty, especially as my last name does not align with it. Some employers have admitted confusion on knowing how to interact with me due to not knowing “my race” which I think is an incredibly rude and problematic thing to say or believe.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“Yes – they feel like they missed out on opportunities to kick start their career.”

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

“I mean, work is just temporary. A job is like permanent, yeah, permanent, your future and stuff.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“I’ll start by going back to school to get a master’s degree. After that, I’ll probably just work some type of job, whatever I do my master’s in. But at the same time, I want to make connections like with people in the sports industry. And then probably, I’d like…like travel around the country, kind of like talent I want to, you know, bring to the school that I want to open up for athletes. I just want to find people to like invest in the whole school and find staff, you know, teachers, coaches, stuff like that.”

• Reflections on Focus Group Experience
• Takeaways

“I have to agree with you…I do believe there’s more of a problem in society with [race] as opposed to the common race…Well…that’s just my opinion and my experience so to me that is fair to say but thanks for the feedback.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“I think that I described myself as smart and this is because I like to try to understand what I’m learning and I like to try remember all the information that I have learned.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“College has taken a big financial toll on me.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“I know people who didn’t go to college, but I don’t know how they feel about their decision.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Death, loss and uncertainty

I think a barrier would be money.  In order to do a career you need money.  Loss of motivation, no connections and maybe the people you surround you with aren’t the best so that kind of stops you or distracts you from doing what you want to do.”