Youth Quote Search

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“Fun, smart. I like to have a good time. I enjoy being around my friends, and I put funny and loud but not on purpose, because sometimes my voice gets really loud but it is not on purpose. I don’t really know why I wrote that [I am smart]. It is the first thing that came to my mind. I am not really that smart. I don’t know. I am average; I feel smart is like really dedicated to school and you do everything. You are in APs and honor. I am just average. I am an average student. I’m not honors and APs and stuff.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“Graduate from UCLA in 2 years. Take my sciences during that and then find somebody who will accept me in their office to work 2000 hours hands on. Apply to PA school and get in; meet my future husband who is also working, stable; invest in some properties to make money for a house, marriage and then have kids, 4 of them. Then my ultimate goal is to live comfortably, travel and be happy.”

• Perceptions of the term 'work'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Same as the box for ‘work’.”

• Perceptions of the term 'career'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“A marriage. You’re marrying your career.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[At 25] Maybe I am finishing getting my masters, so hopefully getting into the job I want, the career I want to pursue. Hopefully, making a good income. Living wise I am not sure. Maybe still living with my parents; it just depends what route I take if I want to go live somewhere else or study somewhere else. It really depends on my decision.”

• Describing Identity
• Race, ethnicity, gender, culture

“I got like if you fight them back for being racism, like or if they, you know, use racism, or they’re racist I guess, then that makes you as bad as them.”

• Perceptions of the term 'work'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Dollars.”

• Perceptions of the term 'job'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Paying the bills.”

• Impact of teachers and non-familial adults
• Pathways

“When I was in seventh grade, it was my seventh grade teacher was the one that put the idea in my head of this is a career path you could do. So, when I got the internship, she was the first person I went back to go see to tell her…and I have half of my [High School] teachers on Snap Chat. So, every time I post an accomplishment, Ms. [Teacher] and Mr. [Teacher] will be like oh, my God, congratulations. And I’m like I didn’t block you from seeing my story.”

• Impact of family
• Pathways

“My mama…used to own property like on the south side of Chicago, but…let them all go when her mom died. So when I expressed interest into like wanting to own property, she would probably want me to hold on to all of my property and not let any of it go.”