- Challenges and Barriers
- Death, loss and uncertainty
“Cost of the programs I am going to need to use for my field [are challenges on my pathway to success].”
Participant:
- Belle Glade, FL
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
Youth Quote Search
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- Impact of peers
- Pathways
“My friends, Eric and Aaron…they are the first ones I show my music once I am done with it, or even if I’m not done with it. They are good support for me. With the both of them they can tell me straight even if it is not good so I will know if it is not good.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
[Job felt more positive because] “When you talk to people you don’t hear people go oh, I love to work. You hear I love my job.”
Participant:
- Belle Glade, FL
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
[“Career”] “When you think of career, you think success, getting a degree, higher education, and maybe more happiness in a job, more high paying. Not completely stress free, but you are probably going to put more effort into it, plus your grades and stuff; maybe less stress from bills, money problems.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Characterizations of a bad job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Seasonal.”
Participant:
- Baltimore, MD
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- higher income
- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“No, I think career is definitely different. For job and stuff you could be stressed. I feel with career you feel more accomplished and you are happier because you are already set. I see them totally different.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Describing Identity
- Race, ethnicity, gender, culture
“My gender is male. My race is white. My religion is Catholic.”
Participant:
- New Orleans, LA
- white
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
- Pathways
“I want to drop out of school cause I can’t do it.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Challenges and Barriers
- Family
“[Family, teachers] expect us to know what we want to do in life.”
Participant:
- Belle Glade, FL
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Education
- Perceptions of college and postsecondary
“I think that it drew out a process of education that could have been expedited simply because schools make more money the longer students are there. [In what ways do you think the process could have been expedited?] Most general education courses are remedial for a lot of students and are seen as fillers around the courses that actually matter to students that know the career or field they want to go into. Requiring so many courses causes students to be enrolled longer than they need to be. It could be expedited by not having this requirement.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income