Youth Quote Search

• Aspirations and Goals
• Inspiration and motivations

“Time, experience, and an understanding of how I want to live my life in the future.”

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

“Life.”

• Reflections on Focus Group Experience
• Takeaways

“Just like a lot. Just like where I want to be, like what I want to do with my life, like where I am in that, like if I’m good with where I am now.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“A positive impact would be the word ‘caring.’ That has a huge impact of being a stay a home mother because I care so much about my children. One word that could have a negative impact would be ‘fun’ because sometimes in a job you can have too much fun and get into trouble.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

[At 45] “Married, children, hopefully my parents will be retired by then…provide them with a good life, working…job, successful marriage.”

• Characterizations of a bad job
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“If you all go to lunch, and you all have parties for work and stuff, you know how they have Christmas parties, if you don’t go, you don’t like your job. If you going to somebody else’s Christmas party instead of your own work, you don’t like your job.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“Be living in a house in the Marina in San Francisco with my husband, cash full like $5 million homes. It is going to be great. My best friend is going to live next door. We are going to be like beach moms, and we are going to walk down the beach right there down to Golden Gate Park where we are going to do yoga, and it is going to be great. We are going to have dogs, and it is going to be wonderful. Probably have kids, probably 2 kids which I am terrified to think about at this point in my life that I really don’t want to think about right at this very moment. I will be working as a successful marine researcher or conservationist or somewhere in marine life rehabilitation because that is what I go into. Because this has literally been like – because my best friend goes to Sonoma State and she is my life. I love her, and her plan is to stay up there. Her whole thing has been like I’ve got to get everyone to come up to me because she wants to be a nurse, and nurses get paid more up there than they do in the rest of the country. She’s like you’ve got to come to me. Marine conservation so that is perfect for me, so that is our dream life. Then I went to visit her over spring break, and we picked out what house we are going to live in together.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“[I]t could help because if someone wants to be a dentist or they want to work with me and they see I am a good person and a good dentist who is Hispanic they will be I want to work for her, or I am Mexican. I can be like her. She is inspiring me.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Discrimination and Bias

“Unsure [there are certain things I need to navigate or deal with in certain ways]. Sensitivity to others.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Lack of support

“To me, [families] don’t really have an impact because like my parents, they work for what they have because they came from low-income families who couldn’t provide anything for them past like them moving out. So they worked for everything. And I feel like they haven’t like fully grasped like the support part because they didn’t have that support when they grew up. So like I didn’t have any support. So like all the stuff I’ve done is like self-motivated. So they don’t get in the way too much except when I’m trying to study—they want me to go places or they’re loud. But they haven’t really been there to also give that support.”