A Gen Z cashier making $13 an hour says she ‘acts her wage’ to protect her mental health: ‘This is not the sum total of your entire life. This is literally just a job.’

Claire (not pictured) makes $13 an hour as a cashier. andresr/Getty Images Claire, a 22-year-old cashier, does the job she was hired to do — nothing more, nothing less. More people are embracing “acting their wage” by not doing work outside their job description. She said that Gen Z has a different approach to work…

Many millennials still go to the bank of mom and dad, but at age 60, I’m learning, slowly, to accept my daughter’s financial support

Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). In some cases, we receive a commission from our our partners, however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. The author, Mary Fairhurst Breen. Maggie Knaus After years working for nonprofits,…

Goldman Sachs insiders are concerned about CEO David Solomon’s push to build his personal brand

Hi, I’m Matt Turner, the editor in chief of business at Insider. Welcome back to Insider Weekly, a roundup of some of our top stories.  On the agenda today: Goldman Sachs insiders are concerned about CEO David Solomon’s push to build his personal brand.Wall Street’s biggest investors fear an economic nightmare is coming. They may…

A 44-year-old mom of 3 made $735,000 last year from a reselling business she launched using just the clothes in her closet

Mona Mejia Mona Mejia, 44, was a stay-at-home mom when she began reselling on Poshmark in 2015. She earned $735,000 last year selling on social media livestreams and through brand partnerships.  She’s confident others can have similar success as well, but it doesn’t happen overnight.  Before 2015, Mona Mejia’s full-time job was taking care of…

Meet a government worker who regrets refinancing her student debt because she didn’t know it would block her from federal loan forgiveness: ‘I never would have done that’

Getty Images Tanya Burnett, a federal government worker, refinanced her student debt into private loans in 2016. She wasn’t aware at the time that doing so would block her from Biden’s recent federal loan forgiveness. While she’s happy for borrowers getting relief, she wishes public servants who refinanced could also experience it. Most student-loan borrowers…

Markets will get ‘Fed up’ with too much tightening if growth slows as Powell shows most resolve since Paul Volcker, BlackRock says

Paul Volcker, former Fed Chair 1979 to 1987. Bettmann / Getty Images Slow growth and too much tightening from the Fed will frustrate markets and the economy, BlackRock says.  “Still, we do think that markets, and consequently the economy, will become ‘Fed up’ with too much tightening,” according to a note. The current Fed’s campaign…

A Russian crime boss was killed in Ukraine after being recruited from prison to fight in the war, report says

Smoke rises from Bakhmut, Donetsk region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine on September 15, 2022. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images The boss of a Russian crime gang was serving a 23-year jail term when he requested to fight in Ukraine. He went to the frontline by the shadowy Wagner Group, who had been recruiting…

Oil prices will head back toward $100 per barrel as a supply crunch returns to the energy market, JPMorgan says

Oil tanker unloads crude oil at a crude oil terminal in Zhoushan Thomson Reuters Brent oil prices could head back toward $100 a barrel as supply grows tighter in the coming months, JPMorgan said. Analysts expect oil demand to rebound by about 1.5 million a barrels in the last quarter of this year. Meanwhile, releases…

Netflix’s The Witcher S3 will premiere in Summer 2023, and Blood Origin in December

Season 3 of Netflix’s The Witcher will debut in Summer/Q2 2023. Confirmation came via TUDUM and a tweet on the official Netflix account, which simply announced: “Our family returns! The Witcher is back for Season 3 in Summer 2023.” We also discovered that spin-off The Witcher: Blood Origin will premier “this December”, which is set…

A secret The Callisto Protocol video hints that something is happening next week

A phone number hidden in a recent The Callisto Protocol teaser has led to the discovery that something may be happening next week. Twitterer Shinobi602 – a games industry brand manager – found themselves intrigued enough by the sci-fi horror’s most recent promotional video that they texted the number that pops up in the latest…