Location: Bhubaneswar, India Age: 27 Occupation: Business development Harsh Raj formally trained as a mechanical engineer at KIIT University in order to become a project manager at a steel manufacturing plant in Angul, India After five years of hard work, he decided he wanted to find a job he was more passionate...
Location: Ft Lauderdale Age: 30 Occupation: Entrepreneur John Anthony Radosta’s story starts out like many others He went to college because that’s what was expected of him, but he really had no idea what he wanted to do with his life He graduated in 2009, just as the economy took a turn for the worse As if...
Would John Lee Hooker or Howlin’ Wolf be teaching guitar on the Internet if they were around today With so much of the music business now happening online, it’s quite possible those legends would also be singing the blues in cyberspace And so for San Francisco Bay Area rock and blues guitarist Jimmy Dillon,...
Yoga is a life-affirming practice for its devotees, but for yoga instructors, it can also be a tough way to make a living New Yorker Sadie Nardini, 43, is not your typical yoga instructor, and overcoming challenges is kind of her thing After suffering a spinal cord injury at age 13, Sadie was partially paralyzed...
Location: Pune, India Age: 36 Title: Senior consultant When your job is to recommend technology, you’d better be up on all the latest products and services That’s what Amer Deep Gurung is tasked with doing every day at the large global consultancy where he works With 12 years of experience in IT, Amer is...
Location: Topeka, KS Age: 37 Job title: Web analyst, Topeka Public Schools Opportunity knocked for Melvin Ware, and he answered Two years ago, he was a computer repair technician for the Topeka Public Schools and the administration was having trouble filling a web applications position His boss, the director...
Age: 17 Location: Linz, Austria Occupation: Student “Ambition is the ticket to the top” Words to live by for 17-year-old Felix Stöger as he wraps up his senior year of high school in Linz, Austria, works on passing his Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam, and plans to attend university next year He’s...
Location: Leon Guanajuato, Mexico Age: 25 Job title: Extract, transform, load (ETL) developer The progression of a career these days is more of a meandering journey than a linear path Rather than picking a job or industry and sticking with it at all costs, today’s entrants into the workforce have more...
If we ever create a Udemy Hall of Fame, instructor Rob Percival will definitely be among the first inductees His story has been told numerous times in the media, and he’s something of a legend around Udemy When he visited our office in November 2015, people stopped what they were doing and watched him as if he were...
Location: Wroclaw, Poland Age: 36 Job Title: Senior Java developer & solution architect Jacek Kaczmarek knew he wanted to brush up on his skills, broaden his experience, and become a better developer Having worked with some older software for a while, he needed to catch up with mainstream Java specs and APIs...
Location: New York City Age: 25 Occupation: Marketing manager Fresh out of Texas A&M University, Alexa Bennett and her now-husband moved to New York in 2012 with big dreams of making it in the big city Today, Alexa has certainly accomplished a great deal, but it’s not what she envisioned when she first...
Age: 28 Location: South Korea James Smith is a cryptologic linguist with the US Army, stationed in South Korea As he prepares to transition back to civilian life, he’s been arming himself with Udemy prep courses for the multiple network security certification exams he plans to take once back in the States...
