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One year ago, I left my job to travel with my father. Neither of us had taken a vacation in years; he was a widower living alone, and I was a journalist who had prioritized my career for 25 years.A trip was something we had discussed after my mother unexpectedly…
When Robin Olsen started applying for communications jobs three months ago, she noticed a shift: The job descriptions had grown longer. One combined communications and marketing, typically two separate roles, into one. Others seemed to have “crazy wish lists,” Olsen says. One was so overwhelmingly long that it prompted Olsen…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t buy the fear about AI job displacement.”I think that people assume that that’s inevitability,” Zuckerberg said during a recent live interview for Complex’s “Idea Generation.” “I don’t actually think it is.”Zuckerberg said the job situation will improve if companies focused more on “personal super intelligence”…
US shipbuilders are trying to bring younger workers into their yards, and that means adapting to a generation with different expectations and a willingness to walk away if the job isn’t the right fit.The priorities of younger workers are prompting changes in how the US Navy’s Submarine Industrial Base Program…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Nitya Kumar, 25, an Adobe employee who lives in India. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I landed a product design role at Meta straight out of college in 2022. By 2024, I saw the industry pivoting toward AI…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jemma Chapman. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m British, and I moved to Toronto in January 2025. I had qualified as an architect the previous summer and realized I had spent most of my adult life studying and not…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Douglas Craig, a 58-year-old ski instructor in Silverthorne, Colorado. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I worked in media for more than 30 years for a lot of different companies, including Discovery Communications. I helped launch Animal Planet, then…
I was standing in the security line at San Francisco International Airport when a sudden panic seized me.I was 50 years old. I’d just quit my job as a hospital pharmacist, packed my life into two suitcases, and was on my way to Ajijic, Mexico, where I didn’t know anyone.For…
Getting a sought-after job at a top AI lab may require a surprisingly old-fashioned approach, according to a Google DeepMind distinguished engineer.”Work like a dog,” Vladimir Feinberg, a researcher who leads Gemini pretraining at Google’s AI lab, wrote in a recent blog post titled “How to Land a Frontier Lab…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Dominic Imwalle, the founder of DxConsulting, which focuses on one-on-one career coaching with professionals seeking $100K+ roles. Imwalle also runs a newsletter called “Conversations > Applications,” which discusses how to create purposeful conversations for job opportunities. Imwalle was formerly a senior…
