Video: Engineering Your Return to School

Joel Dickinson started off his professional journey as many of us do, apathetic. He dropped out of school and wound up taking a job in road construction. While Joel liked the work he began to wonder about his desire to pursue it long term. Ten years after dropping out Joel went back to school and chased down a dream. Here's his story.

I recently started a short video on first jobs based on the interviews done on the Pursue the Passion Tour. What I was surprised to find was that most of our interviewees didn’t generally succeed their first time out. Their first jobs were primarily obstacles or learning experiences that simply contributed to the overall journey. With that said the video quickly became a compilation of stories about obstacles. Here are some of the professionals we interviewed speaking about the “hiccups” e

One of the hardest aspects of zeroing in on a career that we can be passionate about is simply discovering where our interests lie. Throughout the course of the Pursue the Passion Tour we found that almost everyone we interviewed was able to link their current career with a childhood interest. Here is a short compilation of their stories.

Pursue the Passion Interviewed Tommy Thwaits in Denver, Colorado in front of a live student audience. Tommy is the owner of Coda Coffee, a coffee wholesale co. that he owns and operates with his brother Tim. In this video Tommy speaks about his journey in the coffee industry and the risks he took to preserve his passion.

Business travelers and Denver International Airport speak to Zach Hubbell and Brett Farmiloe of Pursue the Passion about their worst flight experiences.

Brett Farmiloe and Zach Hubbell of Pursue the Passion were recently held up at Denver International Airport in Colorado. They decided to use their layover to find out what the more experienced think of business travel.

Brett Farmiloe and Zach Hubbell of Pursue the Passion were recently held up at Denver International Airport in Colorado. They decided to use their layover to find out what the more experienced think of business travel.

This fall over 1,000 students are participating in the "Pursue the Passion" program. Students will be going out and conducting interviews with professionals in fields they're interested in. Video, blogs and write ups will then be posted on www.pursuethepassion.com, creating a user generated career resource for students and young professionals.

Four recent college grads hopped in an RV and traveled across America to interview people about how to find passion in work.  16,000 miles, 38 states, and over 300 interviews later, they’ve collected the secrets to finding a job you’ll love from those who have accomplished the feat.  This video is the trailer for the book and documentary that will be released sometime in 2009.    

Brett Farmiloe and Zach Hubbell, co-founders of Pursue the Passion, deliver keynote speeches to students, HR professionals, and companies about how to bring out passion in work.  Their presentations are based on a 16,000 mile, 38 state road trip they took where they interviewed over 300 professionals about how they found a job they love.  Watch the trailer of them speaking and call Brett at (602) 405-4390 for more information about how to bring their passion and insight to your next conference.

Christopher Barr started his career as a photojournalist.  Finding it both exciting and dangerous it took him around the world in his early twenties, visiting places like Thailand and the Amazon Rainforest.  After a particularly perilous trip through Brazil he decided that a safer form of Photography was in his future.  He began taking portraits in the LA area and quickly became one of the county’s premiere celebrity photographers.  Here his story and why he believes it was so important that he