This course is meant for students in engineering and other disciplines who seek a challenging, interactive, team-based, and hands-on learning experience in entrepreneurship and technology. In this highly experiential course, students work in simulated start-up teams to create products or start-up ideas to address a broadly-defined need of an industry partner or social challenge.

What do Barack Obama, John Legend, and Tory Burch have in common?

They all pursued the three-step process to career building:

First, they found a “main hustle,” whether as an attorney (Obama), management consultant (Legend), or marketer (Burch).

Second, they pursued a “side hustle” on nights and weekends, whether as a community organizer (Obama), backup singer (Legend), or fashion designer (Burch).

Third, they converted their side hustle into their main hustle, effectively catapulting themselves to fulfilling careers. In doing so, they also did what few dare to do: (re)define what it means to be successful.

In this era of uncertainty—where the jobs of the future have yet to be created and the jobs of the past have become paths to nowhere—the unspoken career building strategies of Obama, Legend, and Burch aren’t simply reserved for politicians, musicians, and designers; they’re for everybody—especially if you are asking yourself the question, “What should I be when I grow up?’”

In this course, award-winning Silicon Valley venture investor Shuo Chen and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Gorick Ng will show you how to build your own side hustle, step by step. And through this side hustle, you will learn about the latest labor market and technology trends, identify your unique assets and strengths, build your network, and, in the end, come to greater clarity around what “success” means to you.

Emphasizing the Berkeley Changemaker pillars of critical thinking, effective communication, and productive collaboration, this course is designed to help students think critically about their futures, communicate their personal narratives, and productively collaborate in a team setting to develop their side hustles.

This class requires an application linked below to better understand your motivations for enrolling in the class. The instructors will review applications throughout the enrollment period and you will be notified when a decision has been made. If you are interested in enrolling, please submit this application. As we near the start of the semester, the instructor will review applications and you will be notified via email if you have been admitted or not. If admitted, we will send instructions on how to enroll. The system will not allow you to enroll or add yourself to the waitlist until admitted.

This class requires an application to be considered for enrollment. Application: https://forms.gle/1nfTAhsyr1KUHBwr8

More information: https://scet.berkeley.edu/students/courses/challenge-labs/future-of-work-f22/

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