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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…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Abhinav Bohra, a senior applied scientist at Amazon. He’s in his 30s and lives in Seattle. The following has been edited for length and clarity.For most of my career, everything I built lived and died inside Amazon.I joined Amazon in 2019…
Rachel Pohl and Charles Post had a phrase they kept in mind when they decided to move to the Arctic.”If dreams were easy, they wouldn’t be dreams,” Post, a 38-year-old marketing strategist and conservationist, told Business Insider.Post and his wife, Rachel Pohl, a 34-year-old artist, leaned into that phrase as…
We’re looking for the brightest up-and-comers on Wall Street.Since 2017, Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Wall Street list has highlighted the young professionals redefining the finance industry. We’ve featured traders rewriting the playbook, investors shaping private markets, and influential dealmakers across firms such as Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, BlackRock, and Citadel,…
I moved back to my Louisiana hometown from Biloxi, Mississippi, in 2023 after 35 years on my own. It was the solution to two problems — I was newly divorced with nowhere to go, and my dad needed help caring for my mom, who had dementia.It was supposed to be…
Since I was 11, I dreamed of attending a historically Black college or university.That dream started at Morgan State University in Baltimore, where I spent two weeks each summer in a program focused on leadership and academics.For a preteen growing up in Baltimore City, Morgan felt like another world. I…
Ndamukong Suh wasn’t taking any chances before his first meeting with Warren Buffett.While still a college student, the soon-to-be NFL star arrived at Buffett’s office two to three hours early because he refused to risk being late, he said.The wait paid off, though. Suh said he and Buffett hit it…
The UK job market is looking grim for people fresh out of university.According to the latest UK Job Market Report from job-matching platform Adzuna, the company’s index — which aggregates online listings from more than 1,000 sources — counted an average of 8,383 live UK graduate vacancies in July.That’s down…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Chris Astrella, a recent car buyer in Las Vegas, Nevada. It has been edited for length and clarity.When my grandfather died, he left money for all of his grandchildren. I knew I would eventually need a new vehicle, so I put…
Three years ago, when I met someone 21 years my junior in an online class, I never thought we’d become close.Each week in a writing class, we filled the video call with highly personal details about our lives as we learned how to tell our stories. We spilled our emotions…
