Pursue The Passion
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Charles Finkel has a great wife (Rosanna) that finishes his sentences and allows him to speak freely. Charles loves beer. He has been the longest crab beer salesman in Seattle, having sold it for over thirty years. Interview: How To Start a Brewery So if you could just give us a quick introduction of what…
Darius Monsef IV added the IV to his name because in his opinion, there have been three great Darius’s who have walked the world before him, and he wanted to be the fourth. The interview took place outside of Urban Ground Coffee in Portland, Oregon, next to a semi busy street with occasional foot traffic.…
looks like a model, which is not surprising considering she used to be one. To write her off, however, as just another pretty face, would be a dreadful miscalculation. A graduate of the University of Tampa, Amanda is doing research in Long Beach as an epidemiologist, but her life does not consist of…
seems an intimidating man. In his 20 years in the gaming industry, the Cornell graduate hired more than 80,000 people to staff hotels all over the world. His secret? Go ask your mother. After leaving law school, Arte managed a steel company in New York until he was injured on the job. This…
Most people never get a chance to live in a high-rise apartment in downtown San Diego; Donna Fabbri can’t wait to tear hers up, and all in the name of sound quality. Donna has been in the audio/visual industry for thirty years, specializing in design solutions for audio/visual equipment. Her home is a testament to…
One might expect the head killer whale trainer at Sea World SeaWorld San Diego to have, well, a killer whale size ego; that could not be further away from the truth. Although Robin held an almost prenatal love for the ocean and its inhabitants, having been raised around a SCUBA air station owned by his…
It was time for Anita Malik to do a gut check. After another meeting with her newspaper employer in which her ideas were shook off a shoulder, Anita sat at her desk and looked at her gifts. She had three college degrees, including the masters in journalism she had gone back to get at USC,…
When Andrew Hasbun decided to try to make it big in the world of television news, he left Los Angeles and moved to Medford, Oregon. Although this seems counter-intuitive, it is in fact the route followed by nearly all who commit their lives to the news. After Medford, Andrew found himself in Jackson, Mississippi, and…
Interview: How To Become a Communications Manager at a Nonprofit My job was okay, but it wasn’t anything that I wanted to be doing. I worked there for almost a year, and then my aunt Patti, who is the reason why I’m working at One Legacy, got very sick. She actually passed away and became…
Interview: How To Become a Writer David Rensin is the author of twelve books, the most recent being a slice of Americana in the biography of Miki Dora. How would you describe your job. How would I describe my job? Basically, as gainful unemployment. My job really is…I write books. That’s the simple explanation. I…
“Is this path the right one? Am I doing the right thing?” These are the questions Scott Foreman, Director of Post-Production for Jobing.com, asked himself when he was 22, working as an unpaid production intern for a television station in San Francisco. Lack of pay did not stop Scott from doing what he loves. What…
Pamela Slim never believed that she could go into business on her own. Now she helps people escape from the cubicle to pursue their passions. After receiving her degree in international service and development, Mrs. Slim set out to save the world. At 23 she was working for a community foundation in San Francisco, yet…
From a young age Mary Gilbaugh knew she wanted to work in professional sports, but her corporate accounting career path took a few bends before her childhood dream would be realized. After running track for two years at USC, Mary confidently entered the world of corporate accounting only to realize the fifteen hour days were…
Interview: How To Become a Public Health Educator I had always wanted to be a school teacher. I got married, had kids, ended up working full time. Six months after I was married my husband was diagnosed with a kidney disease. He was told in six years he would have to have a kidney transplant.…
With the loud engine roar and blades rapidly revolving, a helicopter lands at a school assembly full of awestruck first graders. A man in a captain suit cuts the engine and hops out of the cockpit to wave to the crowd. The school erupts in excitement. Amongst the crowd there is a young first grader…
Interview: How To Become a Wildlife Expert At 22? At 22 I didn’t have a clue. Honestly. I had gone to Silvermine College in Connecticut and then left college early to go to Aspen and do some skiing. Just before I went back to college I was drafted. I ended up going to Vietnam. I…
At 25, with a degree in mechanical engineering, David Kravetz decided he wanted to sell brownies. David, along with his lifelong friend and business partner Eileen Spitalny, moved to Phoenix, found day jobs, and spent many nights in a friend’s catering kitchen armed only with his mother’s brownie recipe and a disturbing lack of experience.…
On our first day of the trip, with the RV puttering along the I-8 freeway between Phoenix and San Diego, Daniel made the desperation call to Aunt Patti at 8pm our time, 10pm Chicago time. Our original plan was to stay in the RV that had broken down twice and guzzled $300 in gas already.…
We met up with Amy in her Southside Chicago loft, to hear her story of how she made a leap of faith from the security of Corporate America, to the exhilarating yet exhausting world of entrepreneurship. While we devoured the best pound cake known to man, the warm and collected Amy relived the events that…
never had a passion for accounting; he even tried to talk me out of going into accounting when I told him my future plans. His passion is New York City. He was in the Yankee Stadium bleachers on the day that Lou Gehrig gave his unprecedented farewell speech. He witnessed and felt the…
On a lazy Saturday afternoon after our awesome interview at Wrigley Field, the PTP team casually strolled up to the highly acclaimed Charlie Trotter’s restaurant in Chicago. Seeing as how this was a restaurant that won the best restaurant in the U.S. in 2000 and was founded in 1987 by celebrity chef Charlie Trotter, we…
Interview: How To Become a Physical Therapist I am a physical therapist at Scottsdale Healthcare. My job title is clinical specialist. It’s a unique position in physical therapy. Physical therapy is a broad career. We are in outpatient orthopedics area. I’m a clinical specialist because I’m board certified in orthopedics. I know that I wanted…
When Troy Henikoff entered Brown University in Rhode Island, he had the dream of designing sail boats for a living. He knew he liked to build and create things, but also knew he needed to enroll in a graduate program. The plan was to go to Brown, get an undergrad degree in engineering and go…
The Road To General Manager At age 18, Billy Beane had more hype surrounding him than LeBron James did coming out of high school. Scouts would flounder to his high school and drool at the opportunity of drafting the 6′4, power hitting sensation. The New York Mets got that opportunity, taking Billy with the 20th pick…
