- Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
- Pathways
“I was self-driven to go to school.”
Participant:
- Yakima, WA
- Hispanic
- male
- 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. You can also view additional notes on curation, categories and filters.
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
[By age 70] “I am pretty sure I am going to still look good. I am going to take trips. I have my kids or their kids.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- mixed income
- Characterizations of a bad job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
[Description of “ bad job”] “You don’t feel proud saying that you work there”
Participant:
- Yakima, WA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“I am confident around strangers.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- mixed income
- Impact of teachers and non-familial adults
- Pathways
“Basically it just seems like a lot of the teachers are there to get a check. Just being honest.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
“Maybe like a head of a specific department at work or a VP or an exec or CEO, CFO.”
Participant:
- New York, NY
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'work'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Bills.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- mixed income
- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Yeah. Like if I choose a career, I want it to be something that I want to do for the rest of my life not just for that moment.”
Participant:
- Greenville, MS
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Inspiration and motivations
“I am just proud to be who I am. My parents grew me up. Every December 12 going to church to celebrate the Virgin Mary. At 2 in the morning, are we going to church? They grew me up [Spanish]. It is like 5 in the morning. I’m all tired.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
“[At 45] I don’t know what I want my career to be, but I hope by then I am already in a career and working and married and have a dog, a family dog and 2 kids at least.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income