- Impact of family
- Pathways
“For me I put my mom and dad because one thing I struggle with is getting up in the mornings. I really hate it. They help me overcome some of the obstacles.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- white
- male
- 15-22
- mixed income
Youth Quote Search
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- Challenges and Barriers
- Personal traits and experiences
“Self-doubt.”
Participant:
- Belle Glade, FL
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“It’s stressful to go to school, then go to work, then try to stay on top of your studies and still have free time at the end.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Discrimination and Bias
“I think that I walk a fine line between the positive and negatives of being Chicana. People assume I’m great at my job as a child care teacher because ‘Mexican women love kids,’ but people also don’t see the work I do as actual work because it is a female field and I am a minority doing something that ‘comes naturally to me.’”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Perceptions of the term 'connections'
- Relationships, Connections & Networking
“Partners or ‘the plug.’ The plug is like when you make connections that’s your plug, so the plug is something like it’s easier to do – for example like I know an A&R at Universal, and to me that’s like a plug, so every time I make a song I’m like that might be the sound because he’s like a connection to the industry, so that’s like a plug.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- unknown
- female
- 15-22
- unknown
- Challenges and Barriers
- Discrimination and Bias
“Probably race. There is a lot of heinous people out there, especially now that Trump is President. People are not afraid to speak their mind.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- mixed income
- Perceptions of the term 'work'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Co-workers.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Pathways
- Steps and stages
“Right now, I just thought I’m like in college, and then I put like just moving on and graduating, and, because I said I’m working in a speech pathologist degree, so like I might be working as speech pathologist. But also like with graphic design; I’ve been working on a clothing line and all that. So I said working on both of those. And, really, I’d rather do the clothing line over just the speech therapist, but still working on both because I have to because I might end up broke if I don’t.”
Participant:
- New Orleans, LA
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“I’m happy to let everyone know that I have lots of goals in life.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- male
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Imagining their future selves
“So at 25, I’m still going to be very deep in school.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income