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Future-planning world: an older teen imagining possible future selves along paths ahead

🎓 Ages 15–18 · Grades 9–12 · Career & Future Readiness

NorthQuest

Nobody can hand you the "right" future — but you can get better at authoring your own. Clarify what matters to you, explore real paths, weigh a few tough calls where there's no wrong answer, and write a little about your purpose. No quizzes about your worth, no lectures, nothing sent anywhere.

Find your direction Check what you know

Find your direction

Choose what matters most to you, see real paths that lean that way (each with honest trade-offs), weigh tough decisions under uncertainty — where different people rightly choose differently — and write your own purpose. It's a starting point, not a verdict.

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Who you'll meet — ten people, ten paths

Not mascots — everyday people. None of them is on the "right" path — they're on theirs.

  • Casper — is two years into an electrician apprenticeship and still keeps the first switch he wired, in a drawer.
  • Kestrel — works night shifts as a paramedic and writes one line in a notebook after every call.
  • Linnea — taught herself to code from library books and now fixes the bus-timetable app she used to complain about.
  • Brannock — teaches Year 7 science and keeps a jar of questions he could not answer on the spot.
  • Saoirse — spent eight months on one experiment about soil fungi before it worked once.
  • Rafferty — illustrates picture books and drives a delivery van two mornings a week between projects.
  • Tamsin — started a bike-repair stall at nineteen and now employs three people.
  • Corin — works for the town council on bus routes and has the slow-change patience to prove it.
  • Mabli — is a forestry ranger who can tell you which trees fell in which storm.
  • Teodor — has cut hair for twelve years and remembers what every regular is training for.
Check what you know — skills kits, North Run

Short kits on career-readiness skills — how to explore a path, ask a good question in an informational interview, and decide well under uncertainty. Skills, never a quiz about which future is "right." Hints when you want them; your progress stays on this device.

1. What Matters to You Values & interests clarification (as a skill) · 10 questions 2. Name Your Strengths Strengths identification · 10 questions 3. Explore a Path Exploration mindset · 10 questions 4. Informational Interview Asking real people about real paths · 10 questions 5. Decide Under Uncertainty Decision-making without full information · 10 questions 6. Your Future Self Future orientation · 10 questions 7. Write Your Purpose Purpose & meaning (self-authorship) · 10 questions 8. A Direction Plan (Capstone) Integrating values, strengths, and a next step · 10 questions

North Run · Mixed practice

How it works

NorthQuest never tells you what to be — it helps you think. There's no single right path and nothing here is scored. The best next step is always a real conversation: a school counselor, a trusted adult, or someone who actually does a path you're curious about. Your answers are saved only on this device: no accounts, nothing sent anywhere.

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Chosen from what this app is about. What you open is remembered on this device only.