The goal for our students is to get a job.

We train Alaskans for work in Alaska.

And a student comes here and they go to school.

It's different than the University in that they're here every day doing what they want to learn about.

So I came in and asked him: Could I make a door?

He said: Kelly when are you gonna stop asking whether something's possible?

Everything is possible in here, we just have to figure it.

We offer classes in a variety of work related topics.

I think that sometimes we have an expectation that our kids need to know what you want to do, what do you want to be when you grow up and go to college and do that it's not how it works anymore.

I don't know what I want in the future.

I know what I want now.

That's just building experience working as a prep cook, line cook, baker.

Just anyone who prepares food.

Basically I just wanted to build the repertoire.

I just got a job lined up at a restaurant in Anchorage and then I don't really know where that's gonna take me.

It's definitely been worth the time down here.

It's not an either/or proposition.

If they want to go to college but they're not really sure I can tell you for certain they're gonna have to probably work while they're in college.

So we have a lot of students that come here, get their technical training, and then they're able to work at a very high paying job while they're going to college.

I was a non-traditional student so I was by myself raising two kids working a couple of jobs going to college and I needed to have a skill that I could get a job with.

I think that's an option that we need to give our kids.

It's okay to try stuff.

This is a good option because you can get in, get 'er done, and go on with your life.

Alaska at Work is part of American Graduate: Getting to Work made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.