- Learning About Work
- Work experience
“At my local community center.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower 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 personal attributes and characteristics
- Pathways
“Positive: energetic, perfectionist. Negative, introverted, perfectionist.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income
- How young people think about relationships
- Relationships, Connections & Networking
“Something similar to that. Say you are in a car because you are tired of walking everywhere, so you and your friend are having a conversation and then your friend says oh I know this person that can help you out. Then you go to that person and then they tell you I can’t help you, but I know somebody else who can help you. You go to them and then they give you specific instructions. You go to that person; you say what you need to say and then they can get you what you need.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- mixed income
- Education
- Perceptions of college and postsecondary
“I don’t know anyone who has regretted not going to college.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'work'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Responsibility.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Death, loss and uncertainty
“For me the obstacles would be money and mainly motivation because I am not a very motivated person when it comes to school and stuff like that. People who help me are a life coach, friends and family. Honestly, the money thing, I am at a loss for that one because literally none of my family has money or at least I am not really connected with them. They are kind of like distant, so I am probably just going to have to deal with it.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Accomplishment.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“Hardworking because I have worked. My parents kind of forced me. My parents own businesses, and it is not that we didn’t have money, but they kind of forced me and my brother to get jobs. I have had a job since I was 14 going on 15, and ever since then I have always worked.”
Participant:
- Atlanta, GA
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
“[At age 45] A. Bronx. B. Job, I tutor. C. Family, close friends & bills. D. Family & close friends. 2. Stressful but at the same time it motivates me to continue to do better.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Pathways
- Steps and stages
“I think some of the most important things that have impacted my journey at this point are really just school. And real-life experiences”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- male
- 15-22
- lower income