Video: Pursue the Passion: Career Interview- Rocket Scientist

Career interview with a Fire Battalion Chief and Captain. They explain the unique team dynamic that surrounds firefighting. How to overcome the challenging application process and the essential step to navigating the process.

Career interviews with the workshop presenters at the FBLA, Pursue the Passion Entrepreneurship Challenge.

Career interview with insurance agent Joy Estes. Joy was the first female ever accepted to West Point and his worked to build her business multiple times from scratch.

Career interview with Golf Instructor and former LPGA Professional Shirley Furlong. Shirley describes how she came to love golf, why she started instructing and what it takes to succeed in professional sports.

Career Interview with seven employees at Rainbow Studios, creators of Nintendo Wii's "Deadly Creatures" game.

Joel Dickinson started off his professional journey in the 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.

Pursue the Passion interviews Director of Animal Management, Dan Sabaitus about his career in the animal business. Dan highlights the importance of volunteer work and a love of people in his profession, but admits there is nothing as important as, "...being able to use a rake and shovel."

NPR correspondent Rene Gutel explains what it takes to work as a freelance journalist. It's a balance of print journalistic skills, an education in media technology and hustle. Freelance has allowed her to create her own job and become the purveyor of her own destiny.

Find out what David Resin, best-selling author, says about his gig.

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" enc

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.