<p class="show-desc">Meet three roadtrippers at a crossroads: Dana, a grandmother who’s worried the workforce has passed her by; Jeremy, a military veteran who’s eyeing a new career path; and Bernita, a mother of two who feels boxed in by her lack of a degree. They’ve all lived a lifetime’s worth of experiences—and now they’re ready for what’s next. <p/>
<p class="show-desc">Follow their eye-opening road trip across America as they explore communities keeping ahead of the curve through alternative forms of education and training, and talk to people who are navigating life’s turns with tenacity—and without traditional four-year degrees. Although no one knows exactly what the future of work will look like, it’s clear that it will always hold opportunities for all—and it doesn’t have to leave anyone behind.</p>


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of robotics and automation, and race, but education. degree. workforce longer and 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:39.000 How can they keep up with this rapidly changing economy? getting the best out of them? 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:54.000 So, my good news is that I have a film crew following me today. tour. their story. 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:14.718 We have to be trained to drive it. 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:17.400 Everything. to the next. with a typical four year degree. stuck. 00:01:50.159 --> 00:01:55.799 I've spent 30 years training in breeding prairie horses and 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:03.879 When I stopped doing that, present itself to me and so until that happened. I'm still bending and for a change. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:37.000 I love to work with my hands. 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.639 And as a single parent, the motivation has been to provide for 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:56.038 Sorry. 00:03:01.300 --> 00:03:05.900 >> I don't feel like I'm super-relevant technologically and post. 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:26.158 period where my kids see that what I do isn't fulfilling to me. found more fulfilment there. 00:03:47.598 --> 00:03:51.080 [MUSIC] 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.800 And right now I'm currently working for Lyft. to 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:09.479 You gotta make the most of it. 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:15.280 At 18, I finished high school on a whim and went straight into the Navy. the time I signed the contract. service fleet. know what I wanted to the Navy for almost 17 years. 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:52.680 I came up with the idea for the app I'm working on. coding at all. 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:13.639 So, I've been enrolled in school for three months. discover for paths are available to us. 00:05:31.100 --> 00:05:38.399 >> I'm a mother who is just radical about everything I do. with the words that I speak, on battlefields. incarcerated. 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.160 I've always been a business person. facility. community engagement. 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:29.120 And now, they're just so messed up. people, but I have my son on my mind, 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:09.800 There was a prominent position available in the city for yeah something needs to change. the degree, one or the other. 00:07:30.838 --> 00:07:32.079 You have all these things. 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:45.600 [MUSIC] 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:52.600 >> I'm a little nervous. gonna be challenging. 00:07:57.838 --> 00:07:59.560 [MUSIC] people that you risk. make that change that 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.120 Or to let us know that, if nothing else, 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:29.079 [MUSIC] 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:37.000 people who are transitioning from one career to the next. 00:08:39.500 --> 00:08:40.200 >> Jeremy Burdon. 00:08:45.899 --> 00:08:49.200 >>Absolutely, so please guys, please eat. 27 different things that I did. symbol for me. 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:05.399 >> I don't have a degree in anything. the way you think do new things. work and is you're sort of in between. thing. 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:54.960 It's a little scary, but to do new things. young, and 00:10:25.899 --> 00:10:27.500 [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:30.798 >> [LAUGH] I think she's still there. awful a lot of it is mindset. you. 00:10:44.158 --> 00:10:47.000 It's just for some of us it's harder than others. 00:10:49.700 --> 00:10:53.500 >> We'd like for you to go to the RV with us and we have a space we'd like for 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:01.298 >> I think you've done this a couple of times. at a time. any problem. 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:29.399 >> You guys are gonna change the world, so we're looking forward to all the next the people you meet. 00:11:33.100 --> 00:11:35.600 >> So I'm so excited for you guys. 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:38.100 >> You guys have a great time. out of prison since age 13, Los Angeles County. college education path. get the job that he 00:12:12.100 --> 00:12:16.100 >> I think about my family like my father was incarcerated all my life. two years, 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:28.798 I grew up on multi-generation, active gang family, and incarceration. like me I didn't know. I needed a lot of help. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:18.960 These people really helped me understand that I don't understand myself. 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:25.080 They told me that, look at your life, where have you been? this was how I was brought up. 00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:37.000 Even if you were influenced, you still had choice, and to stop using excuses. work for them. compete in this field. it doesn't add up for bachelors. I was being helped. back? enough. people's lives. 00:14:39.558 --> 00:14:45.519 Or how you would even start to express these emotions that are tied up. 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.500 >> Sitting there with Ernie was like, to see hope. 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:00.440 And to see that somebody made it. I can too. 00:15:13.100 --> 00:15:16.200 >> Jeremy, where do you think we're going today? 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:25.080 [LAUGH] Where might you have said you would like to go and put my hiking shoes on for that. 00:15:35.158 --> 00:15:37.080 I was excited all day. 00:15:42.700 --> 00:15:44.000 >> All right, let's do this. 00:15:47.399 --> 00:15:51.000 >> My god, this is, my god. 00:15:52.100 --> 00:15:53.000 >> Wow. 00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:57.038 So excited. 00:15:58.639 --> 00:15:59.759 [MUSIC] my throat. just be free of something. 00:16:13.899 --> 00:16:17.100 >> When you look out at something like that nothing else matters, the moment. Canyon. I've had. 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:36.798 I've carried so much weight in my life that I have, this stop? past 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:19.000 >> It was just all so symbolic of new beginnings. anything. 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:36.400 Most of my military career, I just wore this mask, needed for my depression. 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:53.519 And I knew that if I did go and get help that that was the end of my career. 00:17:56.078 --> 00:17:58.640 That was hard, that was really hard. 00:18:10.598 --> 00:18:16.098 >> Time to get dirty [LAUGH]. 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:21.000 >> This is my shop. before, so instructor. counterclockwise, feeling the clay. so they slide upward vertically, ain't over. 00:19:14.118 --> 00:19:18.160 That's not something people tell you right away, when you're in junior high or plan, but after that. 00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:29.700 >> Okay, this one's going to be a vase. 00:19:35.298 --> 00:19:36.400 >> Ooh, that's good, Jeremy. 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:39.598 Going really slow now. activities, that was great. getting to evolve creative inner part. do what I wanna do. 00:20:10.798 --> 00:20:12.200 >> I did. whatever. 00:20:15.700 --> 00:20:17.798 >> It's an intuitive thing, isn't it? this isn't working. before I did it. it's very easy to get stuck. if you don't. perspective on we thought, start it again, or so 00:22:00.598 --> 00:22:01.700 >> Here we go. 00:22:09.098 --> 00:22:09.798 >> Nice to meet you Ken. 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:11.700 >> Hi Dana, nice to meet you. 00:22:13.700 --> 00:22:17.098 >> Ken used to work in education. him overseas. filtration. have safe drinking 00:22:44.759 --> 00:22:47.038 My goal is to end the world water crisis, that. 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:19.920 We take volunteers with us all the time. you let me know. too. Life? area of Kenya, we were at. I love kids. he's laughing and cutting up. obviously, What's his name? 00:23:57.118 --> 00:23:58.200 He's not old enough. 00:24:00.400 --> 00:24:03.000 >> One in five kids in Sub- Sahara Africa will die before they reach 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:07.680 They don't even name them, they just call him blessing or boy. do something. doing and 00:24:25.500 --> 00:24:27.000 >> So a question, with water? people 00:24:37.278 --> 00:24:39.358 We've made a lot of mistakes along the way. 00:24:41.358 --> 00:24:46.038 You learn from the mistakes, you grow from them and you change. to do so much. talents. things that make you tick? good when you're doing them and night worried about? to help make a difference in. 00:25:13.400 --> 00:25:15.000 Don't be afraid. about for 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:22.000 We're afraid of rejection. 00:25:24.358 --> 00:25:31.160 captivated by the fear that we are handicapped and we can't make that break. 00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:34.960 [MUSIC] still be compensated. 00:25:55.480 --> 00:26:00.759 like you're too old to be at this point in life trying to figure something out. 00:26:04.098 --> 00:26:07.098 >> I don't think the interviews have really given us, 00:26:09.078 --> 00:26:12.278 It's given us fuel to think about our own process. 00:26:15.798 --> 00:26:16.400 >> Great to meet you today. 00:26:17.358 --> 00:26:21.200 [MUSIC] exciting. experienced. 00:26:42.598 --> 00:26:43.598 >> Woo! 00:26:45.598 --> 00:26:48.160 [MUSIC] 00:26:56.098 --> 00:26:58.000 >> If all this has happened in 10 days, 00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:10.700 >> Transitioning from the military into being a full time student, to go into the mobile app and lot. 00:27:36.558 --> 00:27:41.200 We're going to interview Jerome Hardaway, who is the founder at Vets Who Code. 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:52.960 What's up? 00:27:53.598 --> 00:27:54.400 >> Dana Erickson. 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:59.598 Burton, [INAUDIBLE] >> I was medically retired 00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:08.038 And I'm in school full time now studying software engineering. to 00:28:15.038 --> 00:28:19.000 Coming home and not having the right mental health support. comes to employment. 00:28:24.920 --> 00:28:27.759 Coming back home, like he said, be a cop or security guard. software engineering. college I'm going to my dilemma right now. I want to help build them. no, no. too articulate to be a coder. white, or about it. tenacity. the rest of your 00:29:21.078 --> 00:29:22.640 Those are the things that matter more. least. was just o'clock in the morning and speak, kids software engineering forever. 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:57.240 You must have been super smart in the Air Force. 00:29:58.798 --> 00:30:05.118 When I tell them that story, and they know that, yo, I'm just like you. 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:08.519 I'm from a town that's not tech friendly. the number seventh 00:30:14.598 --> 00:30:19.720 No one would've saw that in me if they had put me in that little box. 00:30:25.078 --> 00:30:28.480 And there was a saying called, skills pay the bills. championship level. 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.038 showing up doing and something even when you don't want to. three HTML, CSS, JavaScript. started. much I can do and start. 00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:02.960 the plan was to pursue a four year Bachelors of Arts in Software Engineering. 00:31:06.078 --> 00:31:08.838 That's something that I have to figure out. 00:31:10.358 --> 00:31:11.240 What do I do? 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:18.000 >> I hear people say that technology is the future. technology or like me. 00:31:45.798 --> 00:31:50.000 >> You got about four feet, three feet, 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.960 [LAUGH] Tell us we don't know nothing. 00:32:07.298 --> 00:32:09.298 >> Take that now, Phil. 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:16.000 She works with Southern Word, career. 00:32:28.098 --> 00:32:32.400 >> While I was working at this call center I was getting emails about degree. 00:32:48.078 --> 00:32:51.640 Or you need at least 3 years teaching experience. 00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:02.318 I wasn't qualified in my own mind, I didn't even be crying on my way. barely breaking even. 00:33:39.900 --> 00:33:45.200 >> As a mom, sometimes, I'm looking at people like I love you all. 00:33:47.838 --> 00:33:51.558 I just need to be free for a little while, just free for a little while, community. family. 00:34:03.640 --> 00:34:09.199 I choose to break past that 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:16.599 >> Mom. the organization, about. I was teaching in a high school. dismiss, dismiss. 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:54.559 Can I ask you a question? you? 00:35:19.300 --> 00:35:21.400 >> No, I can't. >> Why are you picking up something 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.480 You weren't built to be Atlas. 00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:32.400 You'll die trying. 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:38.599 [MUSIC] 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:01.360 What will you choose? 00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.400 That does not have to be my narrative. 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:15.199 >> When so many people look up to you, woman. to be real, 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:32.000 [MUSIC] back and come with Bernita. 00:36:49.360 --> 00:36:52.760 Think about what do you need. fear of what if. 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.159 And that's hard. how to share that. my guard down and be a person. 00:37:22.199 --> 00:37:28.199 >> I can honestly say my motivation it's never been financed. this time. naturally when you're 00:37:38.559 --> 00:37:43.719 But I have no nest egg, no savings, nothing to fall back on. don't want that, so 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.079 [MUSIC] West Virginia and you know what I mean? mines. 00:38:26.039 --> 00:38:28.880 I'm 45 years old and starting over, and doing it. landscape, self- reliant. industry which was coal. degree 00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:06.719 messed up that we have some of the highest unemployment in the country. similar to Detroit. right, in national media. bunch of 00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:23.099 >> Yeah. >> The perception is we're uneducated or have to, that. training, higher education and 00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:06.199 We created companies that have payrolls and 00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:15.880 We're asking Southern West Virginia to think differently. 00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:22.440 Wilburn, his first few months did not have a vehicle to get to work. every morning. 00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:36.920 going back to community college, Wilburn has that's what we mean by courage. I'll show you what's going on. project manager. over eight years, but 00:40:56.760 --> 00:40:58.599 So what's the next step? chance. i don't wanna go to college. 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:12.119 I have been through a lot. 00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:19.079 owned property, lost those but I'm trying to find a clear path. 00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:20.960 Don't worry about that. you shut it down, but because, know what I mean. 00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:45.760 Just go handle it. 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:48.880 I'm tired of living someone else's dream. 00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:51.039 Quit fighting it. 00:41:52.699 --> 00:41:56.199 >> You can always change your outlook on life. something new, 00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:08.000 >> Following our interview with Luke he invited us to tail gate. help and possibility. with and I want to be a part of that. poorest communities in Detroit. 00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:56.400 [MUSIC] Miller. 00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:14.480 He applied for Potomac, worked the apprenticeship program there, and 00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:18.360 And now he's Director of Engineering. not very good with technology. and 00:43:33.119 --> 00:43:34.000 How you do that? person. 00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:44.559 I don't come from a tech background or have a big interest. to computers and technology. 00:43:57.159 --> 00:43:59.800 I'm still not great with computers. working with cars, lawn mowers. 00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:08.239 But I'm good with the stuff that I need to make this stuff work. 00:44:11.099 --> 00:44:14.000 >> People need to understand that when you want to get into engineering or passionate about, making salaries. 00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:32.300 >> All I could think about was, yes. 00:44:41.199 --> 00:44:41.920 Exactly. 00:44:44.699 --> 00:44:47.599 >> I think everywhere else Dana was pushing back. 00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:50.360 The computers gonna take us over. 00:44:56.800 --> 00:45:00.400 >> I didn't see technology as a tool. 00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:02.360 [Laugh]. 00:45:04.300 --> 00:45:09.599 >> When she saw those computers were actually machines she saw possibility. 00:45:10.500 --> 00:45:12.300 >> Yeah. >> You're an inspiration. 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.300 >> [MUSIC] 00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:28.079 And it is a little surreal, cuz now you start thinking about really, back home. LinkedIn. of the same ground I come from. Floor Counsel in the Senate, and 00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:02.440 However, there£s a trend where you£re seeing more and of inclusion and 00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:14.400 People who may not have the same requisite degrees but have the skills. 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:21.400 >> We just need to find the right people who are looking for you, and 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:25.000 I promise you, they are out there. can access the skills needed for there's certificates. 00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:42.360 People are really concerned as work is changing. 00:46:43.518 --> 00:46:45.000 What jobs are going to change? 00:46:47.039 --> 00:46:49.679 We know that work is going to change. bring to the table. 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:11.360 I don't even know how to explain 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:27.199 >> I am. >> [LAUGH] 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:30.518 Would you put that dinosaur back. 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:44.159 [MUSIC] in so many ways. 00:47:53.518 --> 00:47:55.960 We packed so much into 21 days. 00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:06.000 >> Smile. I was stuck in my old story. resources. be my friend. 00:48:40.518 --> 00:48:43.559 I thought the only option available to me was a 4 year program. trip is there are so 00:48:50.400 --> 00:48:54.280 Even if you don't have, you know, a traditional 4 year degree. and they are getting good jobs. happy about what you do. 00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:18.800 I came to the trip to see what's available and network and 00:49:27.699 --> 00:49:31.699 >> After every interview, it felt like a door open or a door closed. I don't wanna go back to school. 00:49:44.518 --> 00:49:49.480 When we make those little steps, it opens you up to be willing to take more. 00:49:50.518 --> 00:49:53.840 [MUSIC] Poets and trip. mic poetry, and 00:50:10.599 --> 00:50:11.599 >> Yeah. [LAUGH] 00:50:15.099 --> 00:50:19.300 >> [APPLAUSE] >> I'll be a little bullets for his throat, for 00:50:39.500 --> 00:50:42.199 >> I'm a product of my mother's faith and my father's last attempt to be faithful. Bernita's power, I was been a part of. next, what next? possibility. 00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:35.360 Something absent of your fear. 00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:53.000 >> [APPLAUSE] >> All right, 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:00.900 >> [APPLAUSE] >> Woo! 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:14.320 My grip is firm, as I seek my next path to those cliffs over there. for me to leap. build. mountains exists to the other side no more because 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:54.079 I will keep cliff-hanging and leaping from one edge to the next. 00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:05.719 they paved their way to these mountains so surely we can to. 00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:17.719 [MUSIC] and these mountain or 00:53:55.239 --> 00:53:57.960 thank you. 00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:04.719 [MUSIC] 00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:31.000 [MUSIC] 

This fall, we’re sending three people on a road trip, fueled by the Lumina Foundation, across the country to meet inspiring leaders who’ve adapted to and found fulfillment in work’s changing landscape. Along the way, they'll learn about new paths to long-term career success, and see how to unlock the education and training they'll need along the way. Follow along as these roadtrippers realize that even if life throws you a curveball, you can still hit it out of the park.

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