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Your Job Is Exploiting You

Your Job Is Exploiting You

A bartender shares his story — and invites you to share yours.
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Samuel Annis5 hrs ago
Girl For Hire: Experiences in the Absurd and Regrettable

Girl For Hire: Experiences in the Absurd and Regrettable

A chronicle of jobs I’ve worked since I was 15.
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Anna Anderson8 hrs ago
5 Moderately Difficult Steps To Creating Your Own Position

5 Moderately Difficult Steps To Creating Your Own Position

Submitting online applications into the infinite internet void wasn’t working. I decided it was time to try creation instead of application…
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Rachel Ahrnsen4 days ago
How a Library Assistant in Dallas Does Money

How a Library Assistant in Dallas Does Money

Elizabeth is a 31-year-old library assistant in Dallas.
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Nicole Dieker3 days ago
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This is the Only Thing I Will Write About Hamilton, I Promise

This is the Only Thing I Will Write About Hamilton, I Promise

Last week I saw “Hamilton.”
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Meghan Nesmith2 hrs ago
Show Us Your Grocery Receipts, Part Nine: Whole Foods

Show Us Your Grocery Receipts, Part Nine: Whole Foods

We even have a receipt from THE FLAGSHIP Whole Foods.
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Nicole Dieker4 hrs ago
Facebook Needs More Personal Content to “Power the Money Machine”

Facebook Needs More Personal Content to “Power the Money Machine”

We’re not sharing personal content at the rate we used to, and that’s not good for Facebook’s bottom line.
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Nicole Dieker6 hrs ago
Monday Check-In

Monday Check-In

It’s Monday, so let’s check in on our weekend spending!
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Nicole Dieker10 hrs ago
Job of the Day: AI Writer

Job of the Day: AI Writer

Who personalizes the artificial personalities?
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Nicole Dieker3 days ago
A Robot Etiquette Question of the Day

A Robot Etiquette Question of the Day

The moment that we all start believing our robots have feelings is the moment it’ll all change.
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Nicole Dieker3 days ago
What Happened After Two Friends Went on a Trip Together: 2016 Edition

What Happened After Two Friends Went on a Trip Together: 2016 Edition

Previously:
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Hope L3 days ago
My Thoughts About Star Wars: Force For Change, In Order

My Thoughts About Star Wars: Force For Change, In Order

How much do I have to donate to get the T-shirt?
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Nicole Dieker3 days ago
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A Story of a Fuck Off Fund

A Story of a Fuck Off Fund

You will be the kind of woman who can tell anyone to fuck off if a fuck off is deserved, so naturally you start a Fuck Off Fund.
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Paulette PerhachJan 20
I’ll Take Care of You

I’ll Take Care of You

On the sad seduction of “treating myself” during a crisis
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Nona Willis AronowitzJan 4
What I Learned About Money After My Parents Died

What I Learned About Money After My Parents Died

“I was inheriting everything my parents had and, in the process, getting a crash course in the practical financial aspects of death.”
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The BillfoldNov 3, 2015
My Nine Months as an Uber Customer Service Rep

My Nine Months as an Uber Customer Service Rep

by Anonymous What I remember most are the funny stories from disgruntled riders.
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The BillfoldSep 15, 2015
Shit Work

Shit Work

by Rachel Ahrnsen I have a theory that the easiest litmus test for privilege is how much contact someone’s had with poop that isn’t…
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The BillfoldAug 13, 2015
Let’s Kill Til It’s Dead The Myth That Mom’s Salary Pays For Childcare

Let’s Kill Til It’s Dead The Myth That Mom’s Salary Pays For Childcare

If everyone benefits from childcare, everyone pays for childcare. Period.
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Ester BloomJul 16, 2015
The Long Distance Approach to Getting Over It

The Long Distance Approach to Getting Over It

by Keith Flanagan Space can get expensive. In a city of New Yorkers nearing nine million strong, I live amongst a clan that’s reasonably…
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The BillfoldJun 26, 2015
The Moral Conflict of Living and Working in Qatar

The Moral Conflict of Living and Working in Qatar

by Dane Wisher I recently returned to the U.S. after teaching writing and rhetoric in Qatar, a Persian Gulf emirate in the news lately…
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The BillfoldJun 11, 2015
Doing Money
How a Woman in a Rent-Controlled San Francisco Apartment Does Money

How a Woman in a Rent-Controlled San Francisco Apartment Does Money

Mindy (not her real name) is a 30-year-old financial analyst in San Francisco.
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Nicole DiekerMar 22
How a Woman Planning to Retire at 52 Does Money

How a Woman Planning to Retire at 52 Does Money

Ann (not her real name) is a 45-year-old Senior Director of Client Services for a tech company in Cincinnati.
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Nicole DiekerMar 17
How a Stay at Home Mom in Washington, DC Does Money

How a Stay at Home Mom in Washington, DC Does Money

Maia (not her real name) is a 29-year-old stay-at-home mom and former attorney in the D.C. area.
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Nicole DiekerMar 11
How a Woman Planning a ‘Money Makeover Year’ Does Money

How a Woman Planning a ‘Money Makeover Year’ Does Money

Allison (not her real name) is a 31-year-old government worker in Los Angeles.
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Nicole DiekerMar 4
Relationships
Don’t Lie To Yourself About When You’re Spending Money

Don’t Lie To Yourself About When You’re Spending Money

Why I’ve got to stop pretending that those big purchases don’t count in my budget right now.
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Rachel GoldfarbMar 22
The Flotsam and Jetsam of Failed Relationships

The Flotsam and Jetsam of Failed Relationships

A Friday chat about breakup stuff
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Nicole DiekerMar 4
What Financial Obligations Do We Have To Our Romantic Partners?

What Financial Obligations Do We Have To Our Romantic Partners?

Love is grand, until money gets in the way
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Ester BloomMar 4
Meals I Have Made to Woo Men, Part I

Meals I Have Made to Woo Men, Part I

There’s a great scene in the middling Mike Nichols’ 1986 film adaptation of Nora Ephron’s perfect Heartburn where Meryl Streep cooks Jack…
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Meghan NesmithFeb 23
Student Debt
How a Teacher in Tennessee Does Money

How a Teacher in Tennessee Does Money

Mal is a 30-year old teacher near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Nicole DiekerDec 14, 2015
A Pre-Thanksgiving Student Loan Tweetstorm

A Pre-Thanksgiving Student Loan Tweetstorm

Logan messaged me to say that I should post about our pal Lauren Rodrigue’s recent tweetstorm about her student debt.
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Mike DangNov 25, 2015
I Could Have Avoided Student Debt, But Have No Regrets

I Could Have Avoided Student Debt, But Have No Regrets

by Elizabeth Belyeu My parents wanted all of their kids to go to college, but we knew they wouldn’t have the money to get us there.
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The BillfoldAug 20, 2015
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