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.
“[At 45 my life will look the same as the previous answer] Well, like human resource, social work but, with him like living together and stuff. Well, I feel like I need to see first if I actually like [the job I’m doing at 25] because then, if it’s something that I do like then, I will continue. But if I want to expand like that then, it will depend on where I’m at the moment.”
“Salary, benefits, helping people.”
“Education.”
“[At 70 I’m going to be] Sitting on a beach in Florida, retired, not worried about nothing. Grandkids running around…flying around to anywhere I want. I don’t really [pay for my life or earn money because] my kids, they got me. But I already got enough money saved already that that’s last me for the rest of my life. Family [will be important to me at 70].”
“Yes. I’m a mix of everything. It’s important because I feel connected to everyone.”
“I wouldn’t go there with the expectation of going there just to get a job but rather to learn and experience something new. [What new experience(s) would you hope to have?] Anything that has wisdom written all over it!”
“A marriage. You’re marrying your career.”
“General Topic.”
[For “job”] “Survival, clients, safety, boss.”
“Positives about job: you’re making money. Positives about work: you have a job.”