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Why Invoices Take So Long to Clear and Hacks To Get Paid Faster
Not getting paid on time is every freelancer’s nightmare. Expert tips on what you can do to help ensure that it doesn’t stay a recurring one.
Your Ideas Are Being Used After a Job Interview Without Any Credit. Now What?
More and more companies are asking prospective employees to do job tryouts or turn in ideas and assignments. Here’s a guide to making sure your fabulous ideas don’t get ripped off.
Parents on What They Think Their Gen Z Freelancer Kids Do for Work
“You’re doing social media. And it involves, you know, things that you want to do. About food… healthy food?"
There Is Nothing Natural About the Way We Work
The conditions are right for substantial change – but what exactly will that change look like?
Nightmare Stories of People Who Moved Abroad to Work Remotely During the Pandemic
“The first lockdown was announced with two hours' notice. I was stuck in an Airbnb with cockroaches for the next three months.”
The Pandemic Has Made Rejection Even More Common – Here’s How to Deal with It
From lockdown break-ups to unsuccessful job applications, 2020 has been the year of bad news.
Dear Men, Please Stop Using LinkedIn to Hit on Women
People are using the business networking site as an unofficial dating app. The results aren't pretty.
Quit Your Shit Job and Become.... a Climate Activist!
Do something good for the planet – like Andrew Medhurst, who quit his lucrative gig in pensions to volunteer for Extinction Rebellion.
The Grim Job Diary of an Amazon Worker at Christmas
I know I’m going to be sacked come January, and I can’t wait.
Quit Your Shit Job and Become... a Professional Drag King!
Meet Chiyo Gomes – a former head chef who quit the prejudice of the service industry to become a globetrotting drag performer.
Teachers and Doctors Are the Green Jobs of the Future
Fighting climate change means focusing on vital work often done by women of color.
How to Quit Your Shit Job... and Become a Sugar Baby!
Photographer Elysia Nicole Downings was sick of taking pictures of drunk people at weddings – so she became a sugar baby instead.