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“I’ve got news,” my 22-year-old son said as he sat across the dinner table from my husband and me on a warm summer night.”I accepted a new job in Indiana, and I’ll be moving there in a month.”I froze. I was surprised, not that he was moving out, but that…
In the summer of 2024, my husband and I bought our dream house in a small town in Maryland.We knew virtually no one in our new town, but at the time, that didn’t matter to us. It had everything we wanted: brand-new construction, around our budget, and it was just…
As a teenager, I’d sit on my bed flipping through glossy magazines, fascinated and completely absorbed by the empowering stories about women. The news felt dominated by men, but magazines seemed to offer a different world — one where women’s lives, bodies, careers, and opinions were worthy of entire pages.…
This is a conversation with Justin Johnsen, the lead technical architect at KPMG. This conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.I joined KPMG six years ago, and I’ve been a forward-deployed engineer for about a year, working across different clients.When I started with KPMG as a software engineer, all…
At 34, after years of climbing the ranks of a Wall Street law firm, I was burned out and deeply disconnected from the natural world. Unsure of where I wanted to live, after leaving my job, I spent a year camping in the American West. During that trip, I visited…
In May 2022, my husband, Daniel, and I reached a major milestone on our quest toward the American dream: buying our first home in Western Washington. The one-story home is just under 1,300 square feet and has four bedrooms and two bathrooms.For almost a year, we enjoyed the freedom of…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with May Lee, a 59-year-old seasonal worker in Antarctica and former marketing and communications manager at HP. It has been edited for length and clarity.I joined Hewlett-Packard in 1987 as a software engineer intern. As a graduate, I wanted to sign on…
When Lukas Jannick’s parents heard how much he was spending on coffee in New York City, they bought and sent a coffee machine straight to his house.”I told them it’s $5.69, and they were shocked,” he said. “Now I’m not spending any money on coffee.”The 23-year-old Dutchman moved to NYC…
A few years ago, I left New York City and headed to Sydney. I moved to Australia for a job opportunity and because I wanted to experience what it is like to work and live abroad. Doing so also helped me scratch the itch I’d had since college, when I…
Back in 2018, I was finishing my final year of college.It had been far from the best chapter of my life, so I did everything I could to graduate a semester early. I abandoned my plans to apply for a Fulbright scholarship and moved in with my parents temporarily.Now that…
