Youth Quote Search

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

[At 25] “I’m like between two visions. One of mine is like I’ll become like, I don’t want to say successful producer but like some semi-successful, like people know me, but I’m not like…I’m not going to be here though. I’m going to be like somewhere, Atlanta or something. And my other vision is like a sound engineer. Like…music, like the people who mix it and stuff like that. I want to do that.”

• Challenges and Barriers
• Discrimination and Bias

“I feel it is limiting. I think a lot of times my profession, even when I walk into certain places, it is just like I am the minority. I feel there are a lot of people who don’t look like me. Even in school, one time I was the only Latino in the class and there were a lot of Caucasians in the class. I think in my profession it is looked at, and from the beginning…when they get the resume to when I walk in the door, I have to constantly prove myself and show that I know just as much as Caucasians. I have had experience getting questions like oh you know that? I was just like yeah, am I not supposed to know that? I think it definitely limits me, but I think that I have to then use my education, the knowledge that I know and my personality to break down barriers, to break down more opportunities.”

• Pathways
• Steps and stages

“I started from how I am now, so get good grades in high school, graduate high school, go to college for my basic education and then have fun during college and I will be with my friends. Start my career, have kids and continue in career and just be with family and eventually retire and be at home and stay with my family.”

• Appealing jobs or careers
• Aspirations and Goals

“Being a lawyer.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“On my education the positive words I think are that I like to put effort into my work, so for my education I put effort in my classes to get good grades. A negative is that I become very focused on one thing and lose time for other projects.”

• Impact of personal attributes and characteristics
• Pathways

“I don’t think any of the ways I described myself would impact my pathway in a bad way.”

• Reflections on Focus Group Experience
• Takeaways

“Basically what everyone else said. You need to communicate…because if you don’t talk to people then nothing is going to happen.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“I usually get along with people, so I am good working groups or working well.”

• Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Positives about job: money. Positives about work: keeps you busy.”

• Impact of peers
• Pathways

“I see the same as him. You know, if they help me, they help me. And if they’re not, and they’re just getting in the way or they don’t really, you know, affect me at all like because now I see it like I’m going to go to college soon. And I see my friends like, oh, they’re still messing around. They’re not maturing. They want me to go have fun with them, but that’s just getting in the way of my schoolwork. You know, I’m trying to better my life. And I have those friends that are there. You know, they’re doing their own thing. They’re not, you know, they’re just there. We’re friends. And then I have, you know, people that I’m really close with, and they’re pushing me. They’re like, oh, you’re going to get to college, you know, because sometimes I do have doubts about college even though I know I’m going to get accepted either because I’ve already been accepted to multiple colleges. And then I recently got last night was from Idaho. So I was like, okay, I know I’m going to get there, but I still get wary. But then I have those friends that help me. They’re like pushing me. Like you can still do this…I’ve helped them, and they’re helping me…Yeah, verbal and at the same time, they’re just by my side as well on my journey.”