When Cynthia Rodriguez dropped out of college at 21 as the mother of three, nobody would have expected her to be earning a six-figure salary. Fewer yet would have suspected the occupation that would lead to it: court reporter. As…
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In 1973, the first Merrick McDonald’s spot in New York had fired up the grills for the first time, and Paul Hendel, a tall, ambitious 16-year-old with a fondness for free fries, was one of the first to put on…
When Tori Gerbig, then a 24-year-old insurance saleswoman who made $35,000 a year, began selling a few items on eBay in 2011, she couldn’t have imagined, or even hoped, that it would someday become a multibillion-dollar fashion brand. Fast-forward over…
America’s vacation policy is… non-existent. It’s the only wealthy country without a federal mandate for paid time off. Some U.S. employees even work on vacation, emailing, joining calls, and answering texts from the beach. But in Norway? Not so much.…
When the COVID-19 outbreak hit in 2020, Aspen Tucker was working an ordinary job as a staff nurse in Spartanburg, South Carolina, earning about $2,000 every 2 weeks. Things were about to change when he got the offer of a…
Virginia Oliver, at the ripe old age of 104, recently renewed her commercial lobster license, and she’s not leaving anytime soon. In fact, she’s getting ready for another season on the water. This Maine woman, well-nicknamed the “Lobster Lady,” has…
By most conventional measures, a career change from teaching to working at Costco would represent a step back. But for 31-year-old Maggie Perkins, it was the transition that radically changed her life, professionally, financially, and emotionally. In 2022, Maggie left…
Visit the home of a genius and you might not find color-coded closets, spotless counters, or spice racks in the dictionary. What you might stumble upon is a mountain of books, trip over projects in the works, or see a…
When others sell a company for billions, they buy a yacht. When Mark Cuban sold a company, 300 employees bought homes. In 1999, he sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for a staggering $5.7 billion in stock. But the top story beyond…
How many days do you suppose you could be absent from work before anyone notices? A day or two, maybe. A week, perhaps, if you have a good reason and a sympathetic boss. But two decades? Behold Cinzia Paolina De…