- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Career feels more positive, more long term; job feels like something you are doing at the time.”
Participant:
- Pueblo, CO
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
Youth Quote Search
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- Challenges and Barriers
- Death, loss and uncertainty
“Financial instability because it is so hard to – not that I actually experienced it – but I can only imagine how hard it is to work a job to financially support your dream, to financially support you actually getting to work a career that you want to work because you can’t put all of your energy if your whole mind isn’t into that career because you are worried about the money.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'work'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“To do something for something in return such as money.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Aspirations and Goals
- Inspiration and motivations
“[My parents] would always like push me like for school. Before I graduated, they would always push me to like work harder and make sure I passed all of my classes…I did what I had to do, and I passed all of my classes.”
Participant:
- Yakima, WA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“9-5, grinding it out; dealing with rude customers; inconsistent hours/scheduling; incapable supervisors; stress; lack of ownership.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- male
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Pathways
- Steps and stages
“I need to scale my business now so I can start another company that I have been recently trying to start.”
Participant:
- Atlanta, GA
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Characterizations of a good job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“When I think of career, I think of more of something that I like desire to do. I love athletic training and kind of medicine in general, so that’s kind of why I thought of career…”
Participant:
- Yakima, WA
- Hispanic
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Benefits.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Stability.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Describing Identity
- Race, ethnicity, gender, culture
“I’ve heard some mention like I’ll fast like for Ramadan, stuff like that, but after that haven’t really tried anything else to follow my religion.”
Participant:
- New York, NY
- white
- female
- 15-22
- lower income