A Gen Xer relocated from Austin to rural Arkansas thanks to a $16,000 mover incentive that helped pay his mortgage. Now he's enjoying the 'good, hometown living.'

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Britt Lorino, 55, moved from Austin to Osceola, Arkansas with his wife as part of a mover incentive program.

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Work friends are over and maybe that's actually fine

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Work friendships are dying out, and it may be for the best.

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Gen Zers are embracing remote and flexible customer service jobs — but the freedom comes at a cost

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Young workers are increasingly considering customer service as the perfect "lazy girl job."

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OpenAI's CTO treats creativity like a problem to be solved — and that itself is the problem

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Mira Murati, Chief Technology Officer of OpenAI, speaks during The Wall Street Journal's WSJ Tech Live Conference in Laguna Beach, California.
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati weighed in on AI-driven job loss, saying AI will eliminate some creative jobs — but those jobs "shouldn't have been there in the first place."

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Job seekers are jumping through more hoops to get hired as power shifts back to employers

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Job hunters are complaining of a pretty brutal recruitment market.

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He's sworn by the same résumé format for the past 9 years. In 2022, it landed him a $350,000 job at Google — check it out.

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Yung-Yu Lin at a Meta office event
Yung-Yu Lin has worked at Yahoo, Meta, Visa, PayPal, and Google.

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I retrained as a plumber after being laid off from my media job and becoming a mom. I love the flexibility.

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R.J. Fenton, 40, opted to reskill as a plumber after she became a single mom during the pandemic.

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Bad news for coders: The US is past peak software developer

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Gen Z and millennial NEETS are on the rise — many say they'd rather do nothing than be unhappy at work

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A cohort of young people would rather wait things out and be "idle" until they find the right job.

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Gen Z wants jobs that help solve the climate crisis but has no idea how to get them

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Young activists march in Turin, Italy to demand climate action.
Young climate activists with the Fridays for Future movement march in Turin, Italy in October 2023.

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