- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Middle Class.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- female
- 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.
- Impact of race, ethnicity, gender, culture
- Pathways
“It is your own community and you have to be there for each other. You see Black people that are successful; you see Black teachers. If they can be successful, I can be successful too. It is just like a community.”
Participant:
- Oakland, CA
- Black
- 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
- Challenges and Barriers
- Discrimination and Bias
“I feel as though I as a female won’t be taken seriously, that I will have to work twice as hard to get noticed. To earn the spot I want, I will need to be exceptional, work hard, and prove to myself that it can be done and not give up when no one offers you the job you want and deserve.”
Participant:
- Online
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Perceptions of the term 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Passion. I am very passionate about my career and what I do.”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- male
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Attributes and characteristics
- Describing Identity
“I put hardworking, driven, goal-oriented, intelligent, outgoing, and good at time management.”
Participant:
- Baltimore, MD
- Black
- female
- 15-22
- lower income
- Comparing and contrasting 'job' 'work' and 'career'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Work is something you can do anywhere, but a job is something specifically you do…”
Participant:
- Online
- Black
- male
- 15-22
- lower income
- Describing Identity
- Race, ethnicity, gender, culture
“Female, African-American…my last name Black, so I’m always proud to say. And I’m Christian, Baptist, and traditional.”
Participant:
- Chicago, IL
- Black
- female
- 26-29
- higher income
- Perceptions of the term 'job'
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Money.”
Participant:
- Online
- white
- female
- 26-29
- mixed income
- Characterizations of a good job
- Understanding Job/Work/Career
“Helping people, like, well, helping children specifically. Like I would be a social worker because like, oh, let me take you in…for the parents. But it’s usually because they live in such a poor environment, and I just want a better future for them.”
Participant:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Hispanic
- female
- 15-22
- lower income