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The FIRE crowd might be making some lofty assumptions about their path to retirement
20+ hour, 59+ min ago (818+ words) If the army of personal finance influencers out there has managed to infiltrate your social media algorithms, you've likely come across the concept of "Coast FIRE." It's an approach to retirement savings that lets you start to enjoy some form…...
I was laid off from HP after 30 years. At 59, I moved to Antarctica for work — and the wildest adventure of my life.
1+ day, 14+ hour ago (392+ words) I was planning on retiring from HP, but I was laid off. I took it as an opportunity to reinvent my life and become a seasonal worker in Antarctica....
At 18, I ran home yelling, 'We're rich!' My dad quickly proved me wrong.
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (723+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charles Bonfiglio, CEO of Tint World. It has been edited for length and clarity. I was only 18 when I walked into the family home in Brooklyn and told my mom, dad…...
My friends pay me to watch their kids alongside my own. It's a fulfilling way to make $400 a week as a stay-at-home mom.
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (353+ words) Being paid to babysit my friends' kids has been a great side hustle and an easy way for me to make extra money each week as a stay-at-home parent....
I worked at Amazon and struggled to relax. Then I was laid off and went all in on wellness.
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (947+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rania Zheng, a 34-year-old former senior technical product manager at Amazon living in Bellevue, Washington. Zheng was laid off from Amazon in October 2025 and now runs her own wellness-travel business. The…...
College-educated Americans and middle-income earners are increasingly leaning into the side hustle
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (215+ words) America's middle class is always hustling — and now, they're side hustling. The share of Americans with more than one job has been steadily rising for the last several years, and is still hovering at elevated levels. But the population holding…...
Anthropic's AI fluency chief says the best AI users know when to do the work themselves
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (691+ words) At Anthropic, Kristen Swanson's role is to help people get better at using AI. Often, that means knowing when they should do the work themselves. "I have a job teaching people how to use AI, and I probably spend at…...
I'm a former Accenture consultant. I saw why so many workplace conflicts go unresolved.
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (514+ words) This is a conversation with Lauren Bronson Petrous, a former senior consultant at Accenture, who now leads the advisory firm Boundless & Co. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Conflict's inevitable. We're all going to have it. How…...
I lost $180,000 in Wall Street retirement savings. Now, I drive Uber and Lyft 75 hours a week.
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (650+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bill Lewis, 58, an Uber and Lyft driver who lives in the Poconos and has completed about 43,000 trips. He previously worked on Wall Street and owned a Nestlé Toll House franchise. This…...
Your old company might want to hire you back
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (752+ words) When Ahmed Mousa wanted to return to the tech firm Deel, he texted CEO Alex Bouaziz a selfie of the two of them with another colleague. The cofounder quickly replied, writing in part: "Which team" Roughly 48 hours after that exchange,…...