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Carlos Santana Roldán is a 38-year-old software engineer living in California. Business Insider has verified his income and employment history with documentation. The following as-told-to essay has been edited for length and clarity.I think my current software engineer job will probably be my last job as an employee. I’m tired…
Growing up in Florida, I always pictured a future in New York City.I attended law school in Manhattan, then worked my way up the corporate ladder after graduation. Big Law was never my dream, but it felt like a stable career path.Over time, though, I started realizing that working as…
Evolving drone and missile threats, from Europe to the Middle East, are pushing the Marine Corps to move faster on critical air-defense programs, a top Marine general said last week.The Marine Corps is investing in new air-defense systems, including the Marine Air Defense Integrated System, but Lt. Gen. Eric Austin,…
Inside Amazon’s newer, robot-filled warehouses, the next big efficiency drive focuses on how humans move around the facilities, not just packages.If the plan works and scales, this could wring millions of labor hours out of the company’s e-commerce operations every year, according to internal analysis viewed by Business Insider.These planning…
My boyfriend and I floated back to my apartment after dinner and a comedy show, feeling the warmth of pizza and laughter. As we cuddled up on the couch, we began to talk about moving in together. By then, we’d only been together for six months. We knew this was…
This story is based on an interview with Erin Vlack, 48, a pharmaceutical supply chain consultant living in Valencia, Spain. It has been edited for length and clarity.In April last year, two months after leaving my steady job in pharmaceuticals, I was in discussion with another company about a full-time…
Everything is bigger in Texas — even the debate over whether the state really is one of the best places to live.Over the years, Business Insider has written about many people who have moved to Texas from other states. Though their backgrounds vary, many were drawn by the same assets:…
At 22, heartbroken, depressed, and unsure about my future, I craved novelty and adventure, so I packed up my life in England and moved to Japan.Now, 31, living in Tokyo, and more secure than I’ve ever felt in my adult life, I can’t help but feel that creeping depression, pushing…
Ten years ago, my husband, Scott, and I moved to West Virginia and started building an off-grid cabin. Loading audio narration… We knew we didn’t want a tiny house, but we also wanted to keep costs and build time as low as possible. We quickly settled on a happy medium:…
Thanks to war, political conditions, and economic hardship, mass migration has become a significant occurrence in many regions of the world.The US recorded a net gain of about 1.2 million migrants in 2025, according to the World Bank Group. But when evaluating each country’s net migration rate as a share…
