How do millennials find the careers where they’d be the most successful? That’s the dilemma facing protagonist Adriana in the new web series, Hired Education. An offbeat, politely sassy, burned-out overachiever, Adriana is a twenty-something who’s dropped out of medical school to follow her own desired career path, but there’s one problem: she doesn’t know what she wants to do for the rest of her life.
After getting advice from her go-to gal Chelsea, Adriana decides that before she can tell her mom she has dropped out, she needs to be successful in another career first. Her plan? She’ll work a variety of jobs until she finds the right one. But in this economy, Adriana quickly realizes having a degree isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Hired Education stars Keeley Bright (Heroes With Issues, TMI Hollywood) as Adriana, with Madison Brown as her best friend, Chelsea, a confident underachiever who uses her powers of persuasion only for the good of others. The series also stars Carlos Alfredo Jr. as Shane, an old-fashioned young man who always gets caught in the middle of his friends’ shenanigans. Hired Education also features Victoria Palma and Ruby Ambrocio, and is executive produced by Michelle Dos Santos, who is also the series’ creator and writer.
“For most of my twenties, I struggled to find my niche in the world. It was through traveling, working odd jobs and meeting unforgettable people that I became a storyteller,” Dos Santos said. “I’ve always loved to write for as long as I could remember and when I finally let the fear of judgment go, I discovered that perhaps my stories could inspire others to tell their stories too.”
Dos Santos also shared that Hired Education was “conceived at a point where I was receiving what seemed like a million rejection letters on scripts. Then I remembered all the jobs I failed horribly at. It made me think: could this be another epic fail? No. I realized that I gained invaluable experience from every single job I had worked. And when my friend mentioned ‘higher education,’ as a way of learning new skills, I heard it as as ‘hired education.’ When he corrected me, I said, ‘no, HIRED EDUCATION… that’s totally a thing!’ And the rest is history.”
Hired Education began production in September 2017 and will be launching a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign on November 1. The 10-episode series has an anticipated online release date of January 2018. Visit the series’ official website to learn more!
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