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After raising her kids, KeliAnne Piscopo wanted a stable career and a steady income. She thought going to school in her 40s was the solution.So in 2014, she took out nearly $54,000 in student loans from the online school Post University to get her bachelor’s degree in human services. After…
Jimmy Carter famously worked as a peanut farmer before becoming the US president.Mikki Ansin/Getty ImagesSome US presidents had unexpected jobs before they got to the White House.Abraham Lincoln worked as a postmaster in New Salem, Illinois.John F. Kennedy was a journalist and reported on the end of World War II.While…
If you want a job you’ll love, you might consider working in healthcare — or crunching a whole lot of numbers.A recent Monster review of jobs across eight categories found that healthcare workers, math and data science professionals, and science technicians earned the highest workplace experience scores.Monster based the rankings…
AI is coming for millions of American jobs, but that doesn’t mean the work will disappear for good.Joseph Briggs, who leads the global economics team at Goldman Sachs Research, said on a recent episode of the bank’s “Exchanges” podcast that he expects about 9% of the US workforce to be…
Under the stadium lights of Madison Square Garden, people cheered for Brennan Lee Mulligan, the game master of “Dimension 20”, and the tabletop roleplaying game show’s most famous face.The show, run by Dropout — a media company spun off from the former CollegeHumor — involves Mulligan or other game masters…
On a blustery December day, nine large white cardboard boxes sat stacked next to a garbage can in the driveway of a New Jersey nurse as a man packed them into the bed of a pickup truck.Other than a manufacturer’s label in the corner and a note that the contents…
Sometimes, the US government’s concerns that a powerful new tech product could fall into the wrong hands can be a marketing opportunity. Just look at Steve Jobs and Apple back in 1999.In August of that year, Jobs, who was then Apple’s interim-CEO, took the stage to unveil the company’s new…
From about 8,000 layoffs at Meta to thousands of cuts at Amazon, media outlets have been following high-profile employment changes.However, cuts at major tech companies this year represent only a sliver of what’s happening in the massive job market, filled with millions of workers and unemployed Americans across different industries…
Gabriel Petersson said he doesn’t think young workers need to avoid the dreaded “job-hopper” label.In several X posts on Sunday, the OpenAI researcher said young tech workers should test out different teams before anchoring themselves to one company.His view: early-career engineers need data points — on research projects, culture, and…
Software developers, who typically earn high pay, will likely still be needed in the era of artificial intelligence.The Bureau of Labor Statistics published new median annual wage data for May 2025, showing how much hundreds of occupations typically pay. Business Insider used these estimates with projected employment changes from 2024 to…
