- Perceptions of the term 'work'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Hard work, because sometimes jobs have to do something with doing labor.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- mixed income
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- Characterizations of a good job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Benefits.”
Participant:
- Baltimore, MD
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- higher income
- Characterizations of a good job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“They make money, cosmetologists.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Learning About Work
- Sources of Information
“By reading all of my favorite authors and staying in touch with the literary world.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- male
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“Understanding and motivated.”
Participant:
- Yakima, WA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Discrimination and Bias
“It usually is a positive, but it is stereotypical because you are not like acting how a Puerto Rican is supposed to act or how this race is supposed to act. I take it as a positive because this is a first encounter with a different Hispanic/Puerto Rican then I am hoping this is a positive experience for you.”
Participant:
- New York, NY
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- higher income
- Pathways
- Steps and stages
“My mom signed me up for a summer science STEM camp in elementary and it was like a spark lit up and it ignited a passion in me…[I’m still] in high school, and trying to get as much college math and science hours as possible. Going to STEM camps.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Death, loss and uncertainty
“And then the downsides [of owning your own business], obviously, like [Participant] was saying, you can absolutely lose everything within a blink of an eye. And so if the stock market crashes, and my clothing line can’t get shipped here or can’t get shipped there, people aren’t buying this, people aren’t buying that, obviously, I’m going to lose everything. And then it just puts you in a bundle because now you’re in debt not only with yourself but banks and companies and everything like that.”
Participant:
- Yakima, WA
- white
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Learning About Work
- Work experience
“Actually a friend of mine told me.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
- Pathways
“I am loud and outgoing, so if I see somebody sitting by themselves, I will go up to them. Different people, people that I go to school with or if I am at a family gathering they always say that they can hear me from across the room. It is just different. Sometimes it is good and sometimes it is a little uncomfortable because I don’t want people hearing my conversations, you know what I mean? I like listening to people’s problems because they will just come to me and I will be like spill it.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income