- Characterizations of a bad job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
[Description of “ bad job”] “The warehouse… Because it’s long, boring, pretty laborious work.”
Participant:
- Yakima, WA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
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- Characterizations of a bad job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“My aunt – I am not sure if it is the right word, a phlebotomist. She will get people coming in with warts and stuff. And she sent me pictures how she had to cut them off, and they put them in jars. It is disgusting. I would hate to do something like that.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Dedicated. You’re going to have to be dedicated if you’re going to get you a job. You got to be able to maintain.”
Participant:
- Chicago, IL
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Negatives about job: I am too busy, I don’t have time, I don’t know, I’m having one of those days, calm down. Negatives about work: Discriminatory, toxic, inconsistent, demanding, rigid, unsupportive, disengaged, unethical.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
“[At 25] I will say I go to a university – actually a community college.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- mixed income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Death, loss and uncertainty
“Changing my mind and not being financially stable.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Dedicated, passionate, trustworthy, honesty, commitment.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Education
- Perceptions of college and postsecondary
“I am currently in college and hope to expand my learning specifically focusing on my career. I hope to get my bachelors.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Career versus like a job, you could lose your job any day. Because you like, when you have a job, you going on really happy, and things like not like a degree or a certificate or anything. But with a career, can nobody be too quick to fire you. So you’d be more stable with a career than a job.”
Participant:
- Greenville, MS
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Entrepreneurship
- Perceptions of entrepreneurship
“My stepdad made a business one time. He is not the best guy or anything like that, but he made a business and he lost half a million dollars in it. You’ve got to be careful on who you trust and who you hire and your partner and stuff like that. He wasn’t running it right, so I kind of learned from him if you are going to do something you’ve got to know what you are doing. He really didn’t know. You’ve got to be smart about it, and you’ve got to tell people no and be like a boss.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income