Youth Quote Search

• Impact of teachers and non-familial adults
• Pathways

“My robotics coach actually; I’ve been a founding member of my robotics team ever since I joined high school. And since day one, I’ve always been the person that kind of sticks around after practice ends just to kind of brainstorm how we can make the next stage even better…she [has] actually praised me on multiple occasions. Like there was actually a time we actually made it to the super regionals in Texas. And she actually just kind of pulled me aside, and she actually thanked me for putting in so much extra time and being such a great intuitive problem solver.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“To start life, elementary school to high school…and then hardships with my brother and then now being a junior in high school and trying to get to college. Next I put my college and my career. I definitely want to go to school in Georgia and eventually live there. Then married and children and then I put I will be a speech pathologist and work at a school doing that and building a life, I guess. Then retire and live in Georgia in a ranch house.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

[At 45] “By 45 our whole family is stable, well travelled. By 45, you kind of feel like you’re settling down, like you’re just there. You know, like you just go to work every day until you hit retirement age.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“I don’t think any will – I keep my work and personal life two separate places.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“I feel like you got to challenge yourself to do a lot of things.”

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

“Well, my end goal is just to be retired and just relaxing; not worrying about nothing but just my health probably. So, I skipped the first two, because in the process of joining the military, you have to take a test – you have to be tested and then they’ll take you to basic combat training. And I already basically finished those two. And I’m – I wrote down advanced individual training in the military, and I said continue going to my drill weekend, passing all tests that they give out. And then for the middle one, I said, if I’m comfortable with my life and career, continue doing it. If not, you have a chance when your contract is over to rejoin.”

• Impact of family
• Pathways

“Well, my papaw been there 48 year. He Mr. Know-It-All. When you say somebody being perfect, he just about perfect at that job. He knows the ins and outs. And if we catch him, and he wrong, well, we got to get him for that because it’s very rare he’s wrong. And just him knowing, you know, his experiences and all his hard work, dedication during his years of working, he’s guided me through the steps that I need to take and where I need to be for me to move up. He’s guided me by staying on me about missing work. Your attendance at work is your main record. That’s the only thing they going to look at. And, yeah, my attendance, my hard work, if he see me getting lazy, you know, he comes talk to me about that. And just, you know, he praising me. I do good work, you know, he come say good job, this, that, and other. And by good steps, he, you know, he just weighing God, and he tells me something, and I try to go and do it. Really, that’s really what it, I try to do it, and I give it my best. And he would tell me if I’m right or wrong. He’s not going to lie. He not going to say, you did all right. He going to say, that’s bull crap. You know, you could have did better than that.”

• Describing Identity
• Race, ethnicity, gender, culture

“I am not really religious.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[At 45] A) I live somewhere in another state other that California. B) I make money off investing, and my job in my career path. C) My money, husband, happiness, finically stability is important to me. D) My mother, husband, family, friends. 2) It makes me feel excited to think about my future.”

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

“I put flexible hours as well. I put helping others and also making a difference. Yeah…”