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When Mohammed Noorman Bin Mubarak Ahmad opened his first hawker stall in 2017, he woke up at 2:45 a.m., after just three hours of sleep.While most of Singapore slumbered, he cooked spicy sambal and marinated chicken and stocked up his tiny stall for a busy day. He squeezed the prep…
In 2019, my (now ex) husband and I joined the mass exodus of Californians moving to less expensive states.First, we settled in Atlanta. The bustling business hub seemed rife with career opportunities for both of us. Plus, it was familiar territory for me as I’d lived there a few times…
As a young girl in Colorado, I always dreamed of living and working in New York City — and I turned that dream into my life.For over a decade, I built the career of my dreams and ended up working as a magazine editor with amazing coworkers. Still, life in…
Eric was paid to catch employees secretly working multiple jobs. Then he became one of them.A few years ago, Eric was working in an IT role at a large company. His job responsibilities included investigating three types of “illicit employment” within the organization: workers who outsourced their job responsibilities to…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Emily Fenech, a 41-year-old marketing VP based in Nashville. Her identity and employment have been verified by Business Insider. This story has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a big fan of AI.I work at AllVoices, a company in the HR…
When my boyfriend (now husband) got an opportunity to move from New York City to Denver to start his dream job, we both knew it was right for him.I, however, wasn’t quite ready to follow.For seven years, I’d been living in New York City, where I attended college and stayed…
This is what’s known in the journalism business as a victory lap. You wrote something and, instead of the piece sinking into the bottomless ocean of digital content, it actually had an impact.In May, I reported that Anthropic wouldn’t let candidates use AI when applying for a job at the…
Thousands of federal workers are on the lookout for notices of job cuts.The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration can proceed with its reduction-in-force, or RIF, plans across federal agencies after federal judges temporarily blocked the terminations in May. The court opted to “express no view…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeremiah Peoples, a 28-year-old staff developer advocate at Slack in Austin. It’s been edited for length and clarity.I work in software engineering as a staff developer advocate without a college degree. After my first semester in Butler University’s computer science program,…
At 52, Idris Elba has made a name for himself as an actor, a producer, and even a DJ who played at Coachella this year. He says he gets his drive from not forgetting what his pre-Hollywood life was like.During an interview on the “Good Hang with Amy Poehler” podcast…
