- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
[For “job”] “You have to have one; internships, money. It is a hassle.”
Participant:
- Pasadena, CA
- white
- male
- 15-22
- higher income
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- Perception of the term 'networking'
- Relationships, Connections & Networking
“Expanding.”
Participant:
- San Francisco, CA
- unknown
- female
- 15-22
- unknown
- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“So when the first I wrote down when I looked at the word work was field because my parents have worked in the field, and my grandparents worked in the fields. And that’s like the hardest work that’s out there. Yeah, just it’s a big difference between work and a job.”
Participant:
- Yakima, WA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“High Salary.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Money, support, happiness, wealth, participation and comfort…Because I feel when you get a paycheck, you feel happy. The first check it is like taking a step from being a child and kind of like adulthood. You get a paycheck, so it kind of makes you happy.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perception of the term 'networking'
- Relationships, Connections & Networking
“It’s all about who you know, not what you know. So basically, I don’t want to sound like cocky or anything, but like I got a job just off the strength of the people I knew. Like I didn’t even have to do the application process and all that. It’s just they believed in me. They saw that I would be able to do it…So basically, that and then also networking can learn a lot…so like that’s how I found this. So basically…somebody hit my aunt up like you know somebody that want to do so-and-so? And she hit me up, and then that’s how I got here. So it’s just basically who you know and who you put yourself in the circle with.”
Participant:
- Baltimore, MD
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- higher income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
[At 45] “I will probably be living in L.A. or New York. I want to have a family, maybe 2 kids. I want to be married. and I want to have a makeup studio.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- mixed income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Inspiration and motivations
“I want to take care of my family.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
[On “career”] “Long term.”
Participant:
- Baltimore, MD
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“Being a female African-American is very important to me because a lot of African-American females I feel like don’t try to or if they do try they’re not giving me their all. So me being a female and African-American, I will definitely be their extra push or try to be the extra push for everyone.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income