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Gary Bremermann

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Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

Yeah, in terms of making the trip happen, I had very little money. I did have some cash on me, but I carried a tent and a backpack and I would sleep wherever I could. But also a lot of kind people took me in. And they invited me to stay at their house.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

Yeah, in terms of making the trip happen, I had very little money. I did have some cash on me, but I carried a tent and a backpack and I would sleep wherever I could. But also a lot of kind people took me in. And they invited me to stay at their house.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

Some of them had me do part time jobs, cleaning the yard or something to make some extra cash before I moved to the next town or went down the road. And one of the great experiences I had is I was picked up by a gentleman north of Washington, D.C., and his family lived in the Amish country. in southern Pennsylvania, southwest Pennsylvania.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

Some of them had me do part time jobs, cleaning the yard or something to make some extra cash before I moved to the next town or went down the road. And one of the great experiences I had is I was picked up by a gentleman north of Washington, D.C., and his family lived in the Amish country. in southern Pennsylvania, southwest Pennsylvania.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

And he had left the Amish community, but he still lived within the Amish community. And I ended up staying with that family for three weeks. And it was talk about another world. You've seen the movie Witness, perhaps, or seen a documentary on the Amish country. I went to an island in the Chesapeake Bay where they speak a very unusual dialect of English.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

And he had left the Amish community, but he still lived within the Amish community. And I ended up staying with that family for three weeks. And it was talk about another world. You've seen the movie Witness, perhaps, or seen a documentary on the Amish country. I went to an island in the Chesapeake Bay where they speak a very unusual dialect of English.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

So you're right, North America or the US is so diverse. There's so many diverse cultures and so many diverse places. And as you mentioned, I was learning about myself, but I was learning so much from other people. They were sharing their stories with me and I could see how people were living.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

So you're right, North America or the US is so diverse. There's so many diverse cultures and so many diverse places. And as you mentioned, I was learning about myself, but I was learning so much from other people. They were sharing their stories with me and I could see how people were living.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

A very nice couple picked me up in Tennessee and they invited me to stay with them and they worked in a pig slaughterhouse. They would share with me about the work that they did. I had a couple who were clearly very financially challenged, and they picked me up and they offered me cash so that I could buy food for myself. So people that didn't have a lot of money who were very generous.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

A very nice couple picked me up in Tennessee and they invited me to stay with them and they worked in a pig slaughterhouse. They would share with me about the work that they did. I had a couple who were clearly very financially challenged, and they picked me up and they offered me cash so that I could buy food for myself. So people that didn't have a lot of money who were very generous.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

So at 18, I was exposed to a lot of different type of people and a different type of experience, experiences. But now as a recruiter and career coach, I'm also talking to different people all the time, every day. And I think having had that experience at an early stage of my life helped me to become the person that I am now.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

So at 18, I was exposed to a lot of different type of people and a different type of experience, experiences. But now as a recruiter and career coach, I'm also talking to different people all the time, every day. And I think having had that experience at an early stage of my life helped me to become the person that I am now.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

Yeah, yeah. And I feel grateful that I didn't have any terrible experiences. I ended up in some rough spots, but I was able to get myself out of them. I actually dropped out of university twice. Oh, wow. And this is another thing not a lot of people know about me, but I went back to school and I lasted a couple years and I dropped out again.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

Yeah, yeah. And I feel grateful that I didn't have any terrible experiences. I ended up in some rough spots, but I was able to get myself out of them. I actually dropped out of university twice. Oh, wow. And this is another thing not a lot of people know about me, but I went back to school and I lasted a couple years and I dropped out again.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

Thinking I would never go back. Frustrated with the system and going through my own personal challenges. And I dropped out in that time. I was 20 and I traveled around the world. So I traveled around the world and that's when I first visited Japan. And again, that was similar to my hitchhiking stories.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

Thinking I would never go back. Frustrated with the system and going through my own personal challenges. And I dropped out in that time. I was 20 and I traveled around the world. So I traveled around the world and that's when I first visited Japan. And again, that was similar to my hitchhiking stories.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

And not only was it different types of people within North America, it was different types of people all over the place. So I just wanted to throw that in there because I dropped out twice, but I did graduate. And then I came and lived in Japan for a while.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

And not only was it different types of people within North America, it was different types of people all over the place. So I just wanted to throw that in there because I dropped out twice, but I did graduate. And then I came and lived in Japan for a while.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

And I was a young man living in Japan and at the time the Japanese economy was really booming and growing fast and it was the bubble years and it was a very dynamic time to be here. And then I went back to the United States and got a graduate degree. So after dropping out twice from university, I ended up going to grad school and getting a graduate degree.

Chief Change Officer
#329 Gary Bremermann: Hitchhikes, Burnouts, and Building a Career Worth Living

And I was a young man living in Japan and at the time the Japanese economy was really booming and growing fast and it was the bubble years and it was a very dynamic time to be here. And then I went back to the United States and got a graduate degree. So after dropping out twice from university, I ended up going to grad school and getting a graduate degree.