- Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
- Pathways
“I think the word motivated has impacted my pathway the most because I stop at nothing to get to my goals.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- male
- 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.
- Impact of family
- Pathways
“My brother hears me out because he is a little older, but he has been through it because he is 21. He has been in the same situation I am.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Discrimination and Bias
“Yes [there are certain things I need to navigate or deal with in certain ways]. Racism is something I’ll have to deal with because the roles are reversed now, and there is quite a lot of racism now a days. What I mean is racism works both ways and I can experience it as well.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Pathways
- Steps and stages
“IGo to school and graduate from high school. Then I put go to college and get my degree. Then get married and move into a house. Then the next one, be stable enough to have kids and create a family. Then raise kids to be the best they can be. Then retired with my husband, travel and fun. Then eventually slow down and be by my grandchildren.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Entrepreneurship
- Perceptions of entrepreneurship
“I don’t know much about business.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Death, loss and uncertainty
“When it comes to my illness, I am technically terminally ill when it comes to – I have a disorder called gastro paresis. My stomach is paralyzed, so that has me in the hospital a whole lot getting feeding tubes put in every 6 months, that sort of thing.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Characterizations of a good job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“I think YouTubers in general, you can kind of say that is your dream job because they get to do what they love and make money…and make people laugh.”
Participant:
- Belle Glade, FL
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“I see myself as someone who has a village helping me, being my biggest fans. I would describe myself as a go getter, trying to get ahead, work smarter not harder. Work hard, play hard. Dedicated, love to be in sports and work towards my academic career.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Discrimination and Bias
“My dad, he was up for a promotion, and…it was this guy buddy that he knew, and he was…white, and he had got hired, and my father had more qualifications than he did. He’d been working in the architect since he was in high school, he started in youth and that. The guy just got out of college, and he got the job like that.”
Participant:
- Baltimore, MD
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Impact of race, ethnicity, gender, culture
- Pathways
“Ditto! But I do think that it makes you hone skills others may never get because they don’t have to do and say as African American women do and say.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income