- Challenges and Barriers
- Discrimination and Bias
[Description of Careers Harder for Women] “A cop.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- 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. Additional notes on curation, categories and filters can be found here.
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“Focused. I guess I have kept the same career plan since I started college, and I have been really focused on it. I have second guessed it, but I am sticking with it.”
Participant:
- Atlanta, GA
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Learning About Work
- Work experience
“At school, my teacher.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Characterizations of a bad job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“People do what they have to do to provide for their family, and the police come in and take them away from that source of like providence(?). And they do that professionally. And he’s trying to say, like I understand what he’s saying, like it’s not right to take somebody away from their family if that’s what they trying to do to provide for them.”
Participant:
- Chicago, IL
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“Determined.”
Participant:
- Atlanta, GA
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
- Pathways
“For me I [take] advantage on every training and learning on the people that I work with because this makes me a better person and having a better career. I got easily turn of when I feel that I failed on my training but I need to help myself stand and walk through it.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Characterizations of a good job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“I work on checks, but I personally like my job. But it is only because I get along with my coworkers. I know them all. We hang out. So I like going to work. I could schedule myself with people that I like working with, people who make me laugh. I know my customers because I work the morning shift. I schedule myself morning shift, so I know all the customers that come in.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Internship, mentor, and training
- Learning About Work
“I had to shadow a coworker when I was a receptionist at a dentist office.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perception of the term 'networking'
- Relationships, Connections & Networking
“Meeting new people.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Trust.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income