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Small and seasonal US businesses rely on about 100,000 international students to boost their staff each summer. Loading audio narration… This year, though, demand threatens to outweigh supply.”We’re seeing the same number of businesses participate. However, the requested number of supplemental participants might be slightly less,” Kasey Simon, president of…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Sam Correll, 38, and Spencer Claiborne, 30, who moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to Saranda, Albania, a coastal town about 30 minutes from Corfu, Greece. Correll and Claiborne moved to Albania in August 2024 and now help others relocate there. The…
Michael struggled to pay down debt until he turned to an unconventional strategy: secretly working multiple full-time jobs at once. Loading audio narration… In 2020, Michael was working remotely as a technical recruiter, and his job wasn’t very demanding. He wished he could do something more productive with his time.”The…
For most of my life, I believed in a very specific formula: work hard in school, build a strong résumé, study abroad, learn languages, get a master’s degree, and be globally aware. Loading audio narration… I studied journalism and media, and I leaned into storytelling early on. I spent time…
America’s biggest shipbuilder wants to know whether artificial intelligence and robots can do some of the most labor-intensive parts of the shipbuilding process. Loading audio narration… A new partnership between Huntington Ingalls Industries and GrayMatter Robotics, announced Monday, aims to work AI and physical robotic systems into shipbuilding operations. Autonomous…
Apple marks the 50th anniversary of its founding on April 1.The tech giant is one of the world’s most valuable companies, known for innovative products like the iMac, iPhone, and iPod. Its storied past is one of incredible highs, including a $4 trillion market cap, and alarming lows, like its…
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 is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Jack Kim, a former Bain & Company consultant who co-founded Casebuddy, a consulting mentorship program. This story has been edited for length and clarity.It was really hard for me to break into consulting.I went to London School of Economics, where…
The first Block fallsThe AI-driven job apocalypse is no longer a hypothetical.Block CEO and cofounder Jack Dorsey gutted his fintech company, restructuring it into smaller, flatter teams built to move fast and embrace what he calls “a new way of working.”He put it bluntly: “we’re not making this decision because…
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…
