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Examining The Global Impact Of The Gig Economy Explosion

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For example, in world regions like Sub-Saharan Africa, job postings for gig workers on the world’s largest digital platform grew exponentially by 130% from 2016-2020. In comparison, North America’s postings only grew by 14%. Who is gig work supporting?

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7 Apps to Teach Kids About Money

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A 2017 study found that disparities in financial literacy may account for as much as 40 percent of the wealth gap between those retiring with more and those retiring with less. Meanwhile, only 21 states required a personal finance course for high school students in 2020, according to the Council for Economic Education.

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What Leslie Jordan’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Pivoting to a Third Act

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And in life, often your first act is devoted to childhood and education, your second to career and family and your third, following retirement, is how you choose to fill your golden years in service to the legacy you wish to leave. Novels have a beginning, middle and end. Leslie Jordan was likely familiar with third acts. million.

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Uncorking the Dream: Founding Ampersand Estates in Australia’s Wine Country

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That was in September 2020, nine years after Bell left a job with Deloitte in London and moved across the world to work for a small, local firm called Velrada. Carving her niche At 23, Bell spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine, where she learned about vodka production from her host family, who distilled it from potatoes.

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How Michael J. Fox Finds Ways Around Life’s Obstacles

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Then Fox’s golden-boy career was seemingly derailed much too soon by a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease—only to be resurrected by award-winning guest roles and, briefly, his own NBC sitcom before he officially retired in 2020. They have learned not to count on everything being the same and to react to subtle changes.

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What Being Pregnant During the Pandemic Taught Me About Cultivating Contentment

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Where happiness can often be situational or conditional (I’ll be so happy once I get a raise, I’m always happiest when the whole family is together, I would be so happy if I could just retire and travel the world), contentment is feeling fulfilled with one’s current circumstances regardless of what else is happening.

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On Performance Reviews, Mindfulness and Redefining What It Means to ‘Make It’

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Then that work got blessed in December 2020 when a big and fast-growing company bought our small and fast-growing company. He’s affectionate, thoughtful, hopeful and learning things at a dizzying rate. I adapted, recalibrated goals, learned new skills. Then my dad died. I did, and we did. He waves when we wave. Then Esquire.

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