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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…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Ariba Mobin Khan, a 37-year-old marketing copywriter based in Lahore, Pakistan. It has been edited for length and clarity.My journey in side hustling started when I took a one-year break from work after having my baby in 2016. I wrote content…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jonathan Laramy, 32, creator of the viral YouTube channel Chloe VS History, which features an AI-generated character named Chloe who travels through history. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity.A lot of people assume AI videos are created by…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Madison Crane. It has been edited for length and clarity.For most of my career, I’ve worked remotely, as an English as a second language teacher to Spanish students, director of operations at a social media marketing company called Schedult, head of…
