One Week Job Page #9

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You are the people!

You are the student council!

You are the ones who had your...

that raise your hands up!

You stand up! You sign up!

Finding a career

is not an easy thing to do.

It's a lot easier

to make choices

when you don't have

a huge car payment,

expensive habits,

when you're light,

when you can make a lot of

economic choices very rapidly.

Hello.

Why would I do

something so crazy?

If you can effect

a one percent change

in the lives

of a hundred different people,

you will have, in effect,

created a whole unit

of human contribution,

and when you think about that

from the role

of being a speaker,

an inspirational,

motivational speaker,

you really can effect change.

You feel 10 feet tall

and bulletproof.

No feeling like it

in the entire world.

Half the time you don't even

want to collect your check

because you didn't do it

for the money,

you did it because of the

feeling that you have inside.

It's an enormous unwritten

benefit of being a speaker.

First year

that I was in child care,

I was, like,

ready to pull my hair out,

but I decided to stick with it,

and after that first year,

I realized that it was a gift

and that it was very important

for the children

to have a man in their lives,

so that was kind of the thing

where I was like...

okay, it's important...

and as you work with them,

you can actually

see them grow,

so you can actually see results

of what you're doing,

and it's not just working

on a spreadsheet

and seeing some results

of a business venture.

You are actually seeing

them grow and learn things.

As a parent myself,

I have found happiness,

and now my family's happy

because of that,

so happiness trickles down.

Everybody, everything,

every company,

deserves 2 or 3 chances,

so if you go to work

on your first day of work

and it's a negative situation,

give it a couple chances,

and then

if you feel in your heart

that it's just not

going to work out,

make changes.

Once we grow up, life's over,

so I'm refusing to grow up,

and that's kind of

what I'm teaching my staff

and the kids as well.

What surprised me most

about the project

was that complete random

strangers

would offer a place to stay

or like offer a job

at their work.

My son Judah and I were there

to greet them

with leis and what have you,

and we welcomed them here,

and the one week job project

started in Hawaii.

It's week 45.

I'm a astronomer in Hawaii.

This week we will be

going into different schools.

I'm working with

an outreach program

basically educating students

on astronomy

and trying to get them involved

and kind of seeing

the different possibilities

that lie within

that profession.

We do that through hands-on,

minds-on activities

that kinda make it fun to learn.

And place it

on the front of the fat tube.

Everybody got theirs together?

Today we are going to be working

with third through sixth grade

here at Keaukaha elementary,

and we're going to be

kinda teaching them

about ancient astronomy

and how it connects

to modern astronomy.

Really the pay-off is seeing

the spark

in our young peoples' eyes

and to see the difference

in that we're making

within our communities.

I think that's to me

the driving force

behind what we're doing.

They're having fun,

but they don't even realize

they're actually learning

at the same time.

We tricked them.

So at last we finally made it

to the Summit of Mauna Kea,

now here we are

It's quite crazy to think

that here we are in Hawaii

and there's snow everywhere.

Here in Mauna Kea

at the summit

is gathered the 13 largest

telescopes in the world.

The reason why

they have this concentration

is because of the elevation,

they're able to gather

really good data.

That's why so many of the

world's top astronomers

flock to this area

for their research.

The edge of the visible universe

is the beginning

of the universe.

So because the speed of light

is finite,

the further away you look,

the further back in time

you're looking.

Just because we have a horizon

we can't see beyond

does not mean

that there's nothing

beyond that horizon,

it just means we can never know

what's beyond that horizon

because of the time it takes

for light to get to us.

Wow.

There are too many jobs

in which you're just constrained

within a specific

job description

through which

you can't go beyond.

Look for something you'll be

able to express your juices,

your creativity, something

that you're passionate about.

To me, that's like...

that's success.

So walking around here

at the base facility

and seeing all this machinery

and how it works,

it's easy to get lost

in the complexity,

but it's kind of

really interesting

to see the questions

they're actually answering

as to what are

the origins of the universe

and why we are here.

Just seeing Sean

hunting for his passion

felt exciting to me.

I like seeing people take risks.

I still believe

that in my younger years,

I began to settle.

I felt a hope and inspiration

to not be afraid

even now as I'm older

and going through transitions

to say, you know, at any time,

any place, or anywhere you are

in your life, you can choose.

You can choose once again

to follow your passion

and take some risks

and go for the best life

you can have.

Sean?

I think you found something.

All right, here I am

underground.

This is an old lava tube.

If I don't

make it out alive,

I just want my family

to know that I love them

and all my friends,

and, you know, just carry on,

you know?

Keep on trucking.

Week 46, I'm a park ranger

at Hawaii

Volcanoes National Park

here on the big island

of Hawaii.

Looks like I'll be working

with eruption crew this week

surveying trails,

trail maintenance,

and ensuring visitor safety.

Tons of active volcanoes,

craters, a lot of lava flows,

so it should be

a lot of fun.

The main thing is to provide

visitor safety.

The other thing is

to protect the park resources.

So what we do

is we are available

in case somebody needs help,

they will come to us.

Today we are going to be doing

a back-country patrol,

so the area we're going

to be walking in

is going to be

over new lava flows

with uneven terrain,

and so we need to be careful

of our footing

and watching

where we're stepping.

Yeah, Rob told me

his view on life,

and he says that

he sees it as a trail.

It's a journey that we all

must choose our own path.

There is no use in looking back

and thinking, you know, "Maybe

if I had tooken another trail,

where would that

have ended up?"

You know, right now,

it's really difficult

for me to look back,

because I'm constantly thinking

about my upcoming jobs

and how am I

going to get there,

where am I going to stay

when I get there,

but, you know,

at the end of the project,

I know that looking back on it,

I'll be able to reflect fondly

on all the people I've made,

all the experiences I've had,

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