{"id":7767,"date":"2021-05-19T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T11:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T13:25:15","slug":"the-pathfinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/?p=7767","title":{"rendered":"The Pathfinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-24-at-1.48.45-PM.png\" width=\"1288\" height=\"858\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eng.auburn.edu\/directory\/taylost.html\">Steve Taylor<\/a>, associate dean for research, doesn\u2019t remember them all; a lot of students passed through biosystems during his days heading the department. But he remembers 2012 grad <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.auburn.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/ginning-podcast-jessica-dixie-mills.html\">Jessica Mills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There was just something about her outlook on life. Something about the way she took on challenges, took care of her grandparents, took on multiple jobs to pay for school. You don\u2019t forget folks like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was just one of those students who stuck out for being a great person and having just good old common sense and the ability to do things beyond being a bookworm engineer,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>Take the sniper rifle story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=316&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjessica.mills.92754%2Fvideos%2F10100638659044021%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"316\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mills was the only woman on her senior design team. One day, they were out doing some scouting for their big project on erosion control. The idea was to design an environmentally friendly tank crossing at Fort Benning. Which they did \u2014 well.<\/p>\n<p>So impressed was the fort\u2019s commanding general, he gave each member of the team his personal challenge coin. That, said Taylor, who, along with associate professor Mark Dougherty and current biosytems department head Oladiran Fasina, taught the senior design two-course sequence, was a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was one of the best outcomes for a design team project that I can remember,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>But what stands out almost as much is when the soldier at the firing range almost jokingly asked if anyone wanted to try out his .50 caliber Barrett M82. Mills\u2019 hand shot up. She was first in line.<\/p>\n<p>All of which is to say that, a few years later, when Taylor saw what she was up to, he wasn\u2019t really surprised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAKING AIM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The job right out of school? She loved it. She\u2019d interned for the Natural Resources Conservation Service; they told her they wanted her back as an agricultural engineer. She was putting to use most everything she\u2019d learned at Auburn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/04\/img_1817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7777\" src=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/04\/img_1817.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But then the Colorado opportunity came calling. More money? An address in the Rocky Mountains? She pretty much had to apply.<\/p>\n<p>If she got hired, she\u2019d be a field engineer for Halliburton, operating as a liaison of sorts between Halliburton\u2019s sales department and Colorado oil rig engineers in need of ever more sophisticated drill bits.<\/p>\n<p>For half a second, she doubted whether she was qualified. Then she thought back to that senior design class.<\/p>\n<p>She got the job. She was good at it.<\/p>\n<p>Take the sniper rifle story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>She and the sales team were pitching clients on some land up in North Dakota owned by one of their distributors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d have to go out and sort of rub elbows with clients, and we\u2019d go golfing and shooting,\u201d Mills said. \u201cAnd the guy who owned the land actually had that same [Barrett M82] gun on the back of his four-wheeler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man asked if anyone wanted to shoot it. Once again, Mills\u2019 hand shot in the air. She was an old pro, she said. The clients were sold.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=320&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjessica.mills.92754%2Fvideos%2F10101615421544141%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t think shooting a .50 caliber gun out at Fort Benning would be the sort of college experience that would serve me well as an engineer,\u201d Mills said, \u201cbut it really did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a problem, though \u2014 Mills was miserable. Playing soldier to score contracts was fun and all, but it wasn\u2019t exactly rewarding. The Rockies were gorgeous, but most of the time she was just looking at them. The job was pretty much all consuming. The weeks were long, the weekends too short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was out there [in Denver] for about a year and a half and I had been thinking about how there had to be more to life than just waiting for the weekend to live,\u201d Mills said. \u201cI had no kids other than my dogs, I had no relationship tying me down, and I felt like I was living backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One day in 2014, she was out with some clients, wining and dining, living backwards. It was a happy hour thing. She didn\u2019t want to be there \u2014 a co-worker dragged her \u2014 but at least there were free appetizers. A guy she didn\u2019t know sat down beside her at the bar. They started talking. He said he was in town for a job interview. He asked her what she liked most about Denver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Well, I\u2019ll be honest \u2014 I\u2019m not really a big city person, but the mountains are right there,\u2019\u201d Mills said. \u201cI said, \u2018I don\u2019t know if you like hiking or not.\u2019 He looked at me and said, \u2018Have you ever heard of the Appalachian Trail? I did that last summer.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The woman with the framed map of the Appalachian Trail hanging in her office got chills. She got butterflies. She knew what the answer was going to be, but she still asked: \u201cHow much of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mills smiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew right then it was over,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>What her new best friend went on to describe had been a dream since she was 5 years old. Growing up, she always thought it might happen right after high school. But when graduation came, her savings account wouldn\u2019t allow it. After college? No, she just couldn\u2019t. She had student loans. She had a great job offer.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, there was always retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Later that night, back home, she stood in front of her mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, she always had her engineering degree.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI may have been a little tipsy,\u201d she said, \u201cbut I looked in the mirror and I said, \u2018You\u2019re about to hike the Appalachian Trail.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t the alcohol talking. It was the little girl in the Supergirl costume who never said no to a challenge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/04\/IMG_20210415_105006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7775\" src=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/04\/IMG_20210415_105006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LIVING FORWARD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She put in her two-weeks notice at Halliburton in August 2014, then moved back to Opelika. By March 2015, she was living the dream.<\/p>\n<p>She knew she wanted to document and share it somehow, and not just afterward \u2014 along the way, in the moment. Crossing her first state line. Collecting water from a waterfall. The surreal thrill of touching that sign at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Trading the daily grind for a six-month hike? Do it the right way and she might inspire a few folks.<\/p>\n<p>Blogging seemed the obvious choice \u2014 pack a light laptop, journal by campfire. But right before she left, she bumped into an old college friend at Little Italy, an aspiring videographer who was sick of just editing videos of her dog. Don\u2019t blog, her friend said \u2014 vlog. Hit record on your phone every now and then, find some WiFi when you go into town, email the clips. Her friend said she\u2019d handle everything \u2014 editing, posting, everything\u2014 from the moment she took her first step.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Jessica Mills took her last step, 2,190 miles later \u2014 a smile on her face, an Auburn hat on her head \u2014 the YouTube channel she\u2019d started just before leaving had more than 1,000 subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO STREAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was as life changing as she\u2019d expected. New outlook. New friends. Even a new name: \u201cDixie.\u201d That\u2019s what happens out there \u2014 other hardcore hikers give you a \u201ctrail name,\u201d something that reflects who you are (or, in Mills\u2019 case, how she sounds and where she\u2019s from).<br \/>\nBut a new career? That was a surprise.<br \/>\nDuring her first few months back home in Opelika, it was just part-time jobs to keep gas in the car and buy herself a little time for the big decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was kind of like, do I want to get back into the world of engineering or something else,\u201d Mills said. \u201cI was selling microgreens, doing insurance inspections, waitressing, bar-tending \u2014 a lot of different things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But when she wasn\u2019t on the clock, she was still recording. Her channel \u2014 she\u2019d named it Homemade Wanderlust \u2014 was still growing. The positive feedback kept coming. The questions kept coming. How\u2019d she do it? What type of tent did she use? What kind of boots? So, rather than videos of life on the trail, she started posting videos \u2014 each Wednesday \u2014 of how she stayed alive on the trail.<\/p>\n<p>Gear reviews. Tips on overcoming plantar fasciitis. Tutorials on how to pack for a thru-hike. She started hiking local trails, new camera in tow.<\/p>\n<p>Then it hit her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized,\u201d Mills said, \u201cthat what I really wanted to do is to keep hiking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A lot of other people apparently wanted her to keep hiking, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/04\/IMG_1102-1080x675-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7774 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/04\/IMG_1102-1080x675-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the time she told her fans she\u2019d decided to take on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in early 2017, Homemade Wanderlust was pushing 20,000 subscribers. And they were generous.<\/p>\n<p>People began supporting the channel through the crowd-funding platform Patreon. She had a new video editor, another old friend from college. The quality was getting better. The views were climbing. The revenue from YouTube ads was growing.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d heard about people making a real living just documenting their lives. Somewhere along the 2,653 miles separating Campo, California, and Manning Park, British Columbia, Jessica Mills decided to become one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s when I realized that this could actually be a thing,\u201d she said. \u201cI kind of made the leap at that point. I said, \u2018I\u2019m just going to keep on hiking.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, after conquering the PCT, it was the Continental Divide Trail \u2014 the last in thru-hiking\u2019s Triple Crown. In 2019, she and her younger sister went international, hiking Spain\u2019s Camino de Santiago.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, she\u2019s on the Florida Trail, a 1,300-mile stretch between Big Cypress Natural Preserve and Fort Pickens in Pensacola. She\u2019s been out there a month. By the time she finishes, her channel will have 350,000 subscribers. At least.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of hiking-themed channels out there. Jessica Mills\u2019 is arguably the most popular.<\/p>\n<p>The policeman even recognized her.<\/p>\n<p>She was on the Georgia side of the Pinhoti Trail with her boyfriend, taking a quick detour to Dollar General for some Claritin, only to be accused of shoplifting. An officer was called. Security tapes were reviewed. The employee was mistaken. The officer was smitten.<\/p>\n<p>It didn\u2019t dawn on him until after he\u2019d asked her to empty her pockets and remove the custom Homemade Wanderlust neck knife, made by MT Knives, one of her sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait, I\u2019ve seen you,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you have a YouTube channel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trying Out A $1,000 Backpacking Tent\/Accused Of Stealing A $5 Allergy Med\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-JkDMiTMjfc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>100 PERCENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She had to leave the trail this morning to go get another ingrown toenail dug out. That\u2019s her third ingrown toenail as a professional hiker. It\u2019s just one of those things, she said. Comes with the territory. At least she got some cellphone reception out of it. At least she got out of the mosquitos for a little while.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it\u2019s not easy,\u201d she said. \u201cEspecially on a trip that takes six months or more \u2014 you have to want it. It\u2019s like with engineering. You have to want it. It\u2019s not something you come into, put minimal effort into and come out with a degree. You have to work very hard toward it for a lot of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, did the things she learned as an Auburn engineer, that helped her get a great job in engineering, in a way help her give up a great job in engineering? The can-do attitude that got her to graduation? The critical thinking skills that impressed that Army general?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the sort of stuff she can apply out on the trail, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/04\/efb0062ab2a08fef47e355f1a9975cc6-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7778\" src=\"http:\/\/ecm.eng.auburn.edu\/wp\/emag\/files\/2021\/04\/efb0062ab2a08fef47e355f1a9975cc6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, 100 percent,\u201d she said. \u201cI remember when I finished the AT and I made a post about it on social media. I said something like, \u2018This is the most rewarding thing I have ever achieved\u2019 and Dr. Taylor said something like, \u2018I don\u2019t know, what about that engineering degree?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She spits out a mosquito. She laughs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe he still remembers that about the gun,\u201d Mills said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Taylor, associate dean for research, doesn\u2019t remember them all; a lot of students passed through biosystems during his days heading the department. 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