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8 Niche Careers You Didn’t Even Know Existed

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Imagine the next time you ask someone what they do for a living and they respond, “Oh, I test waterslides for a living,” or “I study the curious contents found in the pockets of antique clothing.” The average salary range for ethical hackers is between $95,000 to $119,000, according to Crowdstrike. According to the U.S.

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6 Real-Life Budgeting Tips to Save More Money

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I make an average salary. Some of the highest-quality clothes and shoes in my closet have cost less than a latté. This article was published in January 2018 and has been updated. I contribute to my 401(k) monthly. And I travel abroad every three months. What’s the difference between me and them? Well, practice.

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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. With a wife and two teenagers to clothe and feed, he was no longer willing to trust his future to this game of corporate roulette. Now, he was out of a job.

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Hearth: A Writer Explores the Concept of Home During Her Early Career as a Writer in Delhi, Mumbai and the U.S.

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Roti, Kapda aur Makaan” (food, clothing and shelter) was the political cry of independent India’s socialism in the 1960s and ’70s (including a Hindi film with the same title). I returned three years later to my City of Karma in a job with my then dream publication with four times the salary—with no love in tow. Broken. * * *.

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Donald Kelly—The Sales Evangelist—Is Out to Create a Community of World-Class Sellers

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The average monthly salary is just $500. I’ve seen everyone in my family do entrepreneurial things, whether it was reselling clothes they bought in the U.S., This article originally appeared in the November/December 2021 Issue of SUCCESS magazine. selling peanuts, or having a little restaurant,” he says.

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Shaq Insists He’s Not a Celebrity

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Nearly every commercial is just Shaq being, well, himself: Shaq installing a security system, Shaq dancing to the Gold Bond theme song, Shaq standing in a cruise ship pool with his clothes on. He thanked his mother, who raised him on a secretary’s salary when his biological father left them. He calls her “the great Lucille O’Neal.”

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Business Insider Feature Story on Former Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen

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One perk of working for a star is the clothes, she said: “One assistant I knew was the same shoe size as her celebrity, so she got all her hand-me-down designer shoes.” Today, Low-Kramen said, a starting salary for a celebrity personal assistant on call 24/7 can typically hit the low six figures.

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