We sat there wondering why we felt compelled to do the standard post-college thing. Those roads didn't even interest us.

One of us (Nathan) was a business major who thought he wanted to become an entrepreneur. Why? Both of my parents were entrepreneurs, and I was exposed to that path at an early age. But at college I was told that most business majors usually become consultants. However, a consultant's lifestyle--wearing a suit and working for a big firm--was nowhere near what I envisioned for my future. I was more interested in art and design. What was I doing in business?

Meanwhile, the other one of us (Mike) was all set to walk down the road of medicine. Most people in my family were in the medical field, so when it came time to pick a major I chose biology as a logical path to medical school. It was easy to go with the family flow. One tiny problem: I hate hospitals, the lab, and any type of sterile environment. Minor details? Yeah, right. It's only the rest of my life!

Neither of us liked the roads we were being shoved down. So why did we have to go to work at a consulting firm or in a hospital? After all, these weren't our roads. They were someone else's.

The problem was that we didn't know what else to do. We didn't know what else was out there. All that college, media, and society had exposed us to were the typical career paths of lawyer, doctor, accountant, and consultant. These weren't bad roads; they just didn't fit who we were as individuals.

It suddenly became clear to us that we needed to get out beyond the borders of campus and California and explore all the options we didn't even know existed. We needed more information. We needed more experience. We needed to meet more people. We needed to hit the road

"If you aren't exposed to a wide range of options for how to live your life, how can you figure out what you want to do?"

Growing up in Southern California was great, but it certainly felt like being in a bubble at times. To get outside those boundaries we had taken many road trips to all sorts of destinations. Surf trips to the Northwest, adventures in the Tetons, roadtrips down to Mexico. You name it and we were on it. The summer after our junior year we even landed a gig where we got to drive an RV around the country for an online recruiting company.

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