I spent a total of 10 weeks quiet vacationing all over the world without my boss finding out. Here's how I did it.

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Tobi Oluwole spent a total of 10 months quiet vacationing from his sales manager job while only officially submitting three months of vacation time.

Tobi Oluwole

I tried suburban living for 3 years and was miserable. I'm back to city life and never looking back.

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Randall Galbreath moved to the suburbs in 2021 and soon realized he was miserable. Moving back to a big city helped him find joy again.

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I was scammed out of $300K in a 3-month-long government impersonation scam

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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Wannapa Suprasert, a 28-year-old from Thailand now based in San Francisco who was scammed out of over $300,000. The following has been edited for length and clarity.

I was fired from Deloitte after 18 months. Here are the mistakes I made as a new grad.

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Eddy Gramajo (not pictured) was fired after 18 months at Deloitte.

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I gave more attention to my demanding job than to raising my 4 kids. I'm heartbroken over what it cost me.

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Abigail DeGuzman (not pictured) prioritized her demanding job over being present for her children. Now, she's making up for lost time.

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Leaving India and working in tech in the US changed me. I feel too foreign here and too foreign there.

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Uday Padyana

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I was rejected from Google 7 times. Here's what I changed to finally land my dream job.

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Annie Wang applied to Google 7 times before landing a software engineering role at her dream company.

Qingyue(Annie) Wang

My internship at Bridgewater Associates felt like a 'Black Mirror' episode.

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Daria Rose's experience interning at Bridgewater Associates was eye-opening and transformative.

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I've applied for nearly 200 jobs and can't get hired. I always thought I could fall back on a 'bridge job' stocking shelves — I was wrong.

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"Bridge jobs" are in-person roles in the service industry, many of which pay very low wages.

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An inside look at the weekend the GameStop frenzy began on WallStreetBets

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In a new book, writer Nathaniel Popper details the GameStop frenzy and how WallStreetBets became a cultural movement that upended the global financial markets.

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