Blanca is an 18-year-old female who has just finished high school. She enjoys music, dance, drama, and playing the ukulele. Blanca does not want to attend university and would rather work for a year at a clothing store or coffee shop to gain independence and experience the real world. Her priorities are finding a stable relationship, home, and job within the next 10 years. She is unsure of her career path and worries about adult responsibilities like bills and housing but hopes to someday find her passion.

1. Blanca
Female, 18 years old, just finished
High School. Friendly, extroverted.
Likes music , dance and drama. No
boyfriend. Enjoys playing the Ukulele
Find find her passion. Discover
her talent and put it to work
She needs to be motivated in
order to make decisions.
• She doesn´t want to go to the university, she
rather work
• Want’s to make her own money
• Wants to work in Top Shop (Her favorite
Clothing store) or in Starbucks. In a place where
she can relate to people
• She only wants to work for a year
• After partying over the summer she will think
about work in September
• She wants to go “in the right direction”
• Everything depends on me
• She does not like School, lack of freedom, can’t
even choose her own friends (they have to be
classmates)
• “I hate studying”
• Her priorities in a 10 year span:
• A stable relationship
• Have a nice house
• Have a job
• She will send curriculums (does not
have one yet) in September
• Visit clothing stores to seek a job
• Talk to her friends and see what
they do
• Work gives you independence
• Work is equal to sabbatical year
• She will have to take more than one job in
order to make enough money to live by
herself.
• She will have to go out of Spain to find a good
job
• There are many responsibilities she never
thought about: housing, paying bills…
• Does not need further education to get a
good enough job
• She wishes some day she will find her passion.
Something to be motivated and happy doing
• She should make her own decisions and be
responsible for her life
• To find a job is very difficult and you have
to work many hours to make some money
• She is good with languages and after the
year working she might study to be a
translator.
• A bit laky about the process
• Feel’s afraid about the “real life” that is
coming her way, and how to go about it
• Now she can be herself
• short-term thinking
• Motivation is essential in
order to make decisions
• Is key to find a person’s
talent in order to see and
plan a future where she
can be happy
• How to gain responsibilities
without loosing freedom?