Youth Quote Search

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

“Group.”

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

“Accomplishments, code switching, reputation, money, frustration, and time…I just feel like with the career that I’m in you have to go and be different, other than yourself, in order to sort of like, fit into the work and just kind of pass the day, even though you’re not putting in your full Black(?) self.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“So in 4 years I plan on having my career, a house, getting stable because you are just starting…Having a steady job, getting stable…At 25 I want to be stable.”

• Describing Identity
• Race, ethnicity, gender, culture

“And me, personally, I don’t know just discussing gender, race, I personally feel like all of these, is the option is left up to the person. Like you see how she feels about the whole thing. You’re going to say like it’s however you want to identify yourself, gender, any of those people who are female and consider themselves a male. I just don’t think these define people.”

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

“Working.”

• Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Well, when I think of like career, I think of something that’s like talking, again, like about stability. Like something that you’re like happy, comfortable doing. Something you enjoy doing; something that’s like, well, for me, like I would want a career that I’m proud of. And when I think of job, I just think of it like as something to help you get by like in the moment. It’s very temporary.”

• Impact of family
• Pathways

“Family, they’ll help me pay for some of the school…They’ll also give me like motivation and stuff like that to finish…Well, my parents have always motivated me and like all of my other siblings to, yep, go to university…they make sure that we do well in school. They’ve always made sure we’ve done well in school, yeah.”

• Education
• Perceptions of college and postsecondary

“I wouldn’t go there with the expectation of going there just to get a job but rather to learn and experience something new. [What new experience(s) would you hope to have?] Anything that has wisdom written all over it!”

• Impact of family
• Pathways

“My mom and my sister will help me get through trade school, hopefully, and support…money from my mom, but just be it like emotional support and just being there for you if you want to talk to them or you have something hard to do and you don’t know how to do it. My mom is good at math. If I need help with other stuff, I will just ask them for it and they will help me. She is a medical biller so she has to work with numbers.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[At 25] I want to be traveling. I am not sure what I will be doing, but I like helping people like [helping] them; maybe a psychologist. I want to live near the beach. I want to be around nature where it is peaceful. I am closest with my parents and my sister and friends. I am not sure exactly [where I’ll be living or how I’ll earn money or what I’ll be doing with my time]. I want to be helping people feel better with their emotions.”