Pursue The Passion
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Interview: How To Become a Firefighter Battalion Chief I’m a Battalion Chief with the Phoenix Fire Department. In the City of Phoenix we have about 1700 sworn personnel. 57 fire stations. We work a shift of 24 hours on and 48 hours off. So on any given day you’ll have about 421 firefighters working. Out…
Interview: How To Become A Baseball Equipment Manager Tim Meckener is the Minor League Equipment Manager for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. We are riding on a shuttle between hotels at Major League Baseball’s Winter Meetings in Las Vegas. What does a Minor League Equipment Manager do? Basically all our affiliates, top to bottom, short…
Interview: How To Become a Freelance Journalist in Public Radio As a freelance journalist, I’m basically my own boss. I work on contract for different outlets. Occasionally I work for National Public Radio. Other times I’ll work for outlets such as World Radio Switzerland, Radio France International. It’s just all over the gamut. I try…
Interview: How To Become a Zookeeper I oversee the entire living collection. Everything that’s an animal and plants. And everyone that takes care of those animals and plants. I’m responsible for helping plan the collection, which animals will go in which exhibits, and which animals we need to breed. I work with our national organization,…
Interview: How To Become a Trial Lawyer I consider myself a dispute resolver. When these people actually go to court, I try civil cases in front of juries, over an issue usually involving businesses. But I also do a lot of work outside of court trying to keep people out of court. Because once you…
Interview: How To Become a Chemical Engineer This is the story of Joel Dickinson. He’s not rich. He’s not famous. He’s made a lot of the same choices and mistakes as the majority of us in our youth. But what makes Joel’s story so important is that when he realized he wasn’t happy with his…
Interview: How I started a coffee company Tommy Thwaites is the Owner of Coda Coffee, a wholesale coffee company. We interviewed Tommy live in front of a high school audience in Colorado. I’ve been professionally involved in coffee for the last 14 years. I’m 32 now. I started when I was 18 years old. Most…
Interview: How To Become a Freelance Photographer My first job was in photojournalism. In my mid twenties, I saw the world. It was wild. I got lost, it was scary. I was there alone for three days with a shotgun by my side. It was really a life and death kind of struggle. After that…
The question, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” really used to bother me. I believed it was a throwaway question in an interview that didn’t measure anything. How are we supposed to know where we are five years from now? I was flipping through old notebooks this weekend and I came across a…
Interview: How To Become a General Manager of a Hotel I was playing ball in college for maybe six months when my son was born. I needed to provide for him. I think everyone has that crossroads that you come to where you decide to either be someone they respect, and look up to, or…
Earlier this week our two other Pursue the Passion trip mates, Noah Pollock and Jay Whiting, flew in to help create some PTP media. Both are now living in L.A. pursuing their music career. This weekend will be one of their biggest shows, opening for Pigeon John at The Knitting Factory.This should be a fantastic…
I went to the grocery store at around eleven o’clock last night. Wearing my Arizona basketball jersey, I stood in line annoyed at yet another first round exit from the March Madness tournament. A Sun Devil fan walked by in a t-shirt with that horrid yellow color, which to Wildcat fans, has the same effect…
A big part of the Pursue the Passion’s mission is to improve the quality of student’s lives, both as professionals and individuals. While we have a multitude of theories and messages that we try to utilize for articulating our message there is still the question of how to facilitate actual change. It requires more than…
Last night I went to the Golden State Warriors vs. Phoenix Suns basketball game. This post is not about basketball and the millions players make, nor how it was very nice of Mary Gilbaugh to provide me with complementary tickets, but rather about the initiation college graduates have when entering the “real,” working world. Brandon…
This weekend myself and two other members of the Pursue the Passion tour will be attending Jobing’s leadership retreat, “Leading You”. I have been able to learn very little about the nature of the training from my coworkers who seem to have been sworn to secrecy. I think it’s pretty clear we’re being taken to…
How often do you receive customer service on a level that compels you to tell people of your consumer fortune. I’m guessing not often enough… Well, last night I had such and experience and can’t wait to sing praises. Last night Brett and I left the house at 6:30 to play a little pick up…
Last night my softball team completed a long streak seldom achieved in the annals of sports. It’s the type of result that cannot be realized without a strong team effort and consistency of play. Despite the pressure and palpable expectation, we put on our game faces, played one of our best games of the year…
By no means am I an economist. I am not qualified to write this article. That’s why this post is merely a paraphrase of an article I read last night in Forbes, written by Rich Karlgaard, which said we don’t need to worry about going into a recession for three reasons. 1) This is an…
This week was my first spent entirely in the office and provided me with a much needed opportunity to work on the documentary. Watching video of our trip for ten hours while intermittently trying to engage myself in real world conversations has left me red eyed, frazzled and unnecessarily brazen. Our trip promoted a certain…
As I waded through hours of PTP video archives yesterday I came across a video Brett shot after our first month on tour. The clip consists of Brett interviewing me about my impression of the first month and what impressed me most. The primary issues I focused on were two I had since, nearly forgotten……
Noah Kagan, president of software development company Kickflip, will tell you what he does for a living, but don’t make that your lead if approaching him at a cocktail party. “I hate that question,” says the 25 year old Berkeley grad, who has worked for at least four separate companies that should have made him…
, founder of npost.com, was not sure what to do with his degree in microbiology from the University of Washington. Working for a large medical manufacturer, he began, in his free time, to interview interesting people about their jobs and their career paths. From this sprang nPost, a resource for people looking into the…
Josh Olson is an Academy Award nominated screenplay writer for his work with the movie History of Violence. Josh just moved out of a Hollywood apartment and into a secluded home with a view of the Los Angeles skyline from his patio. What does a screenwriter do? I have a license to put myself in…
The last television appearance we had was on NBC-Nashville. The segment aired that Friday night, and even though I didn’t see it, Linda Harrison in Hermitage, Tennessee did. Linda went to our website and submitted her story. She wrote: “I am currently a Fainting Goat Rancher but have a business degree with an accounting major.…
