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I’ve spent years talking to job seekers. Their stories have gotten sadder — and stranger.One former accountant woke up at 3 a.m. every day to apply for jobs. Eventually, he applied to be the Chick-fil-A cow mascot.A laid-off Gen Zer used an AI tool to submit more than 1,300 job applications in a month before landing a job.A third job seeker took an interview from his car while waiting in line at a food pantry. Over the course of a 16-month search, he applied to more than 6,000 roles.Looking back through more than 100 conversations, I realized these aren’t isolated…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Antons Davis, the 40-year-old founder of Touch of Humane and Osmo, and a former Nvidia employee, based in the Bay Area. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a founder, entrepreneur, and life coach. I started Touch of Humane, an in-person life coaching business, and am the CEO of Osmo, an AI-assisted platform designed to help individuals become better coaches.After seeing firsthand how little support coaches often have for themselves, I started Osmo in 2025 to turn coaching from a subjective, time-intensive practice into a measurable, scalable performance system that…

When Aubrey wrapped up a big work project earlier this year, her manager emailed her with an unusual request. In her presentation to the senior leadership, could she highlight how Claude, the AI chatbot, helped her?Aubrey, a New York-based healthcare analyst, spent countless hours working on a new way to speed up an expensive medical manufacturing process. While she used Claude in a small capacity, her manager wanted her to make it sound as if the AI had come up with the idea and executed it on its own.”I had worked for over a year to gather issues, draft alternatives,…

The man who spearheaded Trump Accounts said President Donald Trump wants to automatically open accounts for all American children.In an “All-In Podcast” interview released on Saturday, Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner spoke about the early success of Trump Accounts and how Trump wants to increase adoption.”In fact, the president suggested that we’re going to auto-create accounts for all 50 million kids — or upwards of 70 million kids — under the age of 18,” Gerstner said.”So he called on us to get the accounts open faster, for more people, to have more impact, and to make sure no child is…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Koyo Murata, 25, the founder and operator of the Villa ASO guest house in Taiki, Mie Prefecture, Japan. His words have been edited for length and clarity.I grew up in a quintessential countryside town in Japan with about 8,000 people. My elementary and middle schools had only about 100 students combined. There are even fewer children there now.After school, we’d play in the river or organize soccer matches in the park. I felt lucky to be surrounded by rivers, mountains, and the sea.Looking back, I realize my hometown, Taiki, was already…

Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham, who died on Saturday at the age of 71, had a major influence on corporate tax rates, tariff policies, and defense spending.Graham’s office said in a statement on Sunday that the four-term senator died after a “brief and sudden” illness. Graham, an ally of President Donald Trump, had just returned from a trip to Kyiv, where he had met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.In his 23 years in the Senate, Graham helped shape a protectionist, national-security-driven approach to trade and business-friendly policies that lowered corporate tax rates. His interventionist foreign policy views also translated into support…

I knew from my first week in Toronto that it wasn’t the place for me.However, it took me six years, one death, a breakup, and the loss of my dream job for me to buy a one-way ticket out of there.It was never my intention to settle in Toronto, but when love had called, I’d answered. The partner I’d met while living in Australia had a job there. We decided we’d stay here for a few years, then move back to the country where we’d met.Still, I had a hard time acclimatizing to the concrete sprawl, especially after living in…

James Bond films track the agent’s vagabond lifestyle, spending one night in London and the next in Montenegro. But if Bond could settle down, he might choose this mansion in Delray Beach, Florida.Villa Skyfall, a newly constructed, about 23,000-square-foot home in Delray Beach, about 20 miles south of Palm Beach, Florida, hit the market priced at $85 million. The owners, developer team Aldo and Fiorenna Stark, bought the property in 2024 for $5,850,000, according to property records, and finished the home this year.”They build homes that they personally would live in, that they would enjoy,” Douglas Elliman agent Senada Adžem…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Christina Jones, a 57-year-old in Philadelphia. It’s been edited for length and clarity.Although I didn’t expect to be laid off from my business analyst role at United Healthcare last year, after 15 years at the company, I wasn’t shocked. Layoffs are the nature of the beast in the corporate world. What shocked me more was how long it took me to find another job.I went through interview after interview throughout the next year, and nothing came of it. I truly believe it was because I was applying at 56. It wasn’t…

Morgan Blunt doesn’t actually want anyone to sue her.If you were to run into the 25-year-old, though, you’d likely notice that she carries a canvas tote bag with the phrase “Sue me!” embroidered across it.”I graduated from Villanova law school about a month ago, I’m currently studying for the bar exam, and in September, I’ll be working for a midsize firm in civil litigation,” Blunt told Business Insider.Her bag is a playful nod to her profession — and an example of a larger trend among women in the workforce.Across industries, women are carrying L.L.Bean’s famed Boat and Totes as work…