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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Tom Blake, a 29-year-old YouTuber and blogger, about his experiments with side hustles. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I started experimenting with side hustles in 2014 while I was in college for a simple reason: I needed to pay the…
Before Bobbi Brown founded her namesake brand, which she would eventually sell to Estée Lauder for about $74.5 million, she was a college student debating dropping out. Loading audio narration… Even after finishing her degree, Brown struggled to make ends meet for years as she paved her way into the…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lucy Rieger, 37, the cofounder of distillery J. Rieger & Co. It has been edited for length and clarity.I originally wanted to be a doctor, until I figured out I don’t really do math or science. Once I ruled those out,…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Justin Parnell, 39, who is based in San Francisco. His former and current employment have been verified by Business Insider. This piece has been edited for length and clarity.In July 2023, my wife and I were closing on a mortgage and…
Passion could be the best defense against AI taking your job, Bill Gurley says.”The people that are most at risk are the ones that are sitting idly in the job and don’t really have a why or a purpose for it,” the legendary venture capitalist said during the latest episode…
I didn’t know what chocolate ganache was before watching reruns of an old Food Network pre-teen baking championship with my kids. But I did spot an opportunity to talk with them about how one contestant kept building her cake after it crumbled. We talked about the word perseverance.That’s the thing…
At 24, I was living the life I thought I wanted. Surrounded by anatomy notes, six cups of coffee, and a stack of certifications and academic achievements, I was in my first year of med school and on my way to becoming a doctor.My life had become a revolving door…
You can call me a dork, but working in public radio was my dream as a teenager — and the hours I spent mapping out my career path and building up my résumé paid off by the time I was an adult.After graduating from college in 2019, I interned at…
US Army drone school leaders said quickly changing battlefields mean the kind of companies the Army wants to work with are the ones making plug-and-play gear that’s easily upgraded.The Army is training soldiers for rapidly changing drone warfare. Leaders say keeping pace — and gaining an edge — requires weapons…
Open relationships have gotten a cultural glow-up among younger adults. In practice, though, they’re hard to pull off.There’s a lot of social media chatter where people in happy non-monogamous relationships report perks such as greater sexual satisfaction, multiple deep partnerships, and less restrictive love lives.Still, outside the tweets, threads, and…
